The Red Hot Chili Peppers · The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Behind the Sun
Behind the Sun is in A minor at 93.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
93 BPM · Andantemedian of 189 analyses · 93.4–93.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 189people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 642.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.68dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.96Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.322Essentia's danceability, 0–3
Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.
What the numbers say
189 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 189 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 93.4 BPM one beat lasts 642.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 160.6 ms and a dotted eighth 481.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 186.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.68 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.96 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.
10 other recordings here are in A minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.
Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Keys that fit with A minor
Each of these differs from A minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.
Delay times at 93 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2569.6 | 0.39 |
| Half note | 2 | 1284.8 | 0.78 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 963.6 | 1.04 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 642.4 | 1.56 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 428.3 | 2.34 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 481.8 | 2.08 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 321.2 | 3.11 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 214.1 | 4.67 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 240.9 | 4.15 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 160.6 | 6.23 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 107.1 | 9.34 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 80.3 | 12.45 |
Half time 46.7 BPM · double time 186.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (642.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Still D.R.E.Dr. DreA minor93BPM
- Still D.R.E.Dr. Dre featuring Snoop DoggA minor93BPM
- Swamp MusicLynyrd SkynyrdA minor93BPM
- For the First Time in Forever (reprise)Kristen Bell and Idina MenzelA minor94BPM
- Get ReadyEric ClaptonA minor93BPM
- Suga MamaBeyoncéA minor94BPM
- StarboyThe Weeknd featuring Daft PunkA minor93BPM
- One Minute ManMissy Elliott featuring LudacrisA minor94BPM
- Ricky’s ThemeBeastie BoysA minor94BPM
- Jane DoeAlicia KeysA minor93BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 93 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 93 BPMA minor at 90–99 BPMThe Red Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 742ce8d3-516e-423e-985f-5e544716db9f.