3 Doors Down · Away From the Sun

Changes

Changes is in D minor at 163.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

163 BPM · Vivacemedian of 135 analyses · 163–163.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
135people who ran the extractor
One beat
367.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.7Hz · -5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.17dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.885Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.086Essentia'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

135 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 135 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 163.1 BPM one beat lasts 367.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 92 ms and a dotted eighth 275.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 81.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 326.2. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.7 Hz, which is 5 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 5.17 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 0.885 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 D 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 D minor

Each of these differs from D 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 163 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41471.50.68
Half note2735.71.36
Dotted quarter1.5551.81.81
Quarter note (one beat)1367.92.72
Quarter triplet0.667245.24.08
Dotted eighth0.75275.93.62
Eighth note0.5183.95.44
Eighth triplet0.333122.68.15
Dotted sixteenth0.3751387.25
Sixteenth note0.259210.87
Sixteenth triplet0.16761.316.31
Thirty-second note0.1254621.75

Half time 81.6 BPM · double time 326.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (367.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. ChangesDavid BowieF major114BPM
  2. Changes2Pac feat. TalentC major111BPM
  3. ChangesMiles DavisF major117BPM
  4. ChangesBlack SabbathC major81BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Southern ManNeil YoungD minor163BPM
  2. Kicked in the TeethAC/DCD minor163BPM
  3. The Thunder RollsGarth BrooksD minor163BPM
  4. KashmirLed ZeppelinD minor163BPM
  5. Every Little Thing She Does Is MagicThe PoliceD minor164BPM
  6. Give Me Back My ManThe B‐52sD minor162BPM
  7. Have It AllFoo FightersD minor164BPM
  8. Help MeJoni MitchellD minor164BPM
  9. RedboneChildish GambinoD minor162BPM
  10. Twin Skeleton’s (Hotel in NYC)Fall Out BoyD minor162BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 163 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 163 BPMD minor at 160–169 BPM3 Doors Down

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 41e6d756-6acd-43b5-93c9-cac2dff94642.