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Faaip de Oiad

Faaip de Oiad is in B major at 101.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

101 BPM · Andantemedian of 133 analyses · 90.1–105.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
62%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
133people who ran the extractor
One beat
593.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
444.1Hz · +16 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.72dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.097Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.253Essentia'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

133 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 62% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 133 readings; 33% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 90.1 to 105.2 BPM.

At 101.1 BPM one beat lasts 593.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 148.4 ms and a dotted eighth 445.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 202.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.1 Hz, which is 16 cents above 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 6.72 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 0.097 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 B major; 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 B major

Each of these differs from B major 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 101 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42373.90.42
Half note21186.90.84
Dotted quarter1.5890.21.12
Quarter note (one beat)1593.51.69
Quarter triplet0.667395.62.53
Dotted eighth0.75445.12.25
Eighth note0.5296.73.37
Eighth triplet0.333197.85.06
Dotted sixteenth0.375222.64.49
Sixteenth note0.25148.46.74
Sixteenth triplet0.16798.910.11
Thirty-second note0.12574.213.48

Half time 50.6 BPM · double time 202.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (593.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. A Taste of HoneyThe BeatlesB major101BPM
  2. Hoodoo / Voodoo Medicine ManAerosmithB major101BPM
  3. Hey BulldogThe BeatlesB major102BPM
  4. Give Me One ReasonTracy ChapmanB major102BPM
  5. Paradise CityGuns N’ RosesB major100BPM
  6. The Sad CaféEaglesB major102BPM
  7. I Don’t Want to Live Without YouForeignerB major100BPM
  8. Josieblink‐182B major100BPM
  9. ChocolateThe 1975B major100BPM
  10. Solsbury HillPeter GabrielB major103BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 101 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 101 BPMB major at 100–109 BPMTool

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 243e9a0e-9265-4c51-b072-2beb4b7d535c.