Alice in Chains · Alice in Chains
Grind
Grind is in B minor at 88.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
89 BPM · Andantemedian of 142 analyses · 88.5–88.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 142people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 677.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 446.7Hz · +26 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 1.71dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.953Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.251Essentia'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
142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 142 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 88.6 BPM one beat lasts 677.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 169.3 ms and a dotted eighth 507.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 177.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 446.7 Hz, which is 26 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 1.71 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 0.953 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 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 B minor
Each of these differs from B 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 89 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2708.8 | 0.37 |
| Half note | 2 | 1354.4 | 0.74 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1015.8 | 0.98 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 677.2 | 1.48 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 451.5 | 2.22 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 507.9 | 1.97 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 338.6 | 2.95 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 225.7 | 4.43 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 254 | 3.94 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 169.3 | 5.91 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 112.9 | 8.86 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 84.7 | 11.81 |
Half time 44.3 BPM · double time 177.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (677.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Havana AffairRamonesB minor89BPM
- Miss IndependentKelly ClarksonB minor88BPM
- Locked UpAkonB minor90BPM
- Alone Again OrLoveB minor87BPM
- Hands UpThe Black Eyed PeasB minor87BPM
- 10 BandsDrakeB minor87BPM
- Heaven HelpLenny KravitzB minor86BPM
- Mrs. RobinsonSimon & GarfunkelB minor92BPM
- Summer Moved Ona‐haB minor92BPM
- I Can’t Tell You WhyEaglesB minor85BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 89 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 89 BPMB minor at 80–89 BPMAlice in Chains
MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id bf0b2b61-2d7f-4eb4-a920-38528745db03.