Aphex Twin · Selected Ambient Works, Volume II
[Rhubarb]
[Rhubarb] is in F sharp minor at 125.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
126 BPM · Allegromedian of 139 analyses · 111.8–126 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F♯ minor3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 139people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 477.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 447.9Hz · +31 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.75dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.71Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.882Essentia'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
139 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in F sharp minor, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 139 readings; 62% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 111.8 to 126 BPM.
At 125.7 BPM one beat lasts 477.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119.3 ms and a dotted eighth 358 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 251.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 447.9 Hz, which is 31 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 4.75 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 0.71 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 F sharp 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 F♯ minor
Each of these differs from F♯ 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 126 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1909.3 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 954.7 | 1.05 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 716 | 1.4 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 477.3 | 2.1 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 318.2 | 3.14 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 358 | 2.79 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 238.7 | 4.19 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 159.1 | 6.29 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 179 | 5.59 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 119.3 | 8.38 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 79.6 | 12.57 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 59.7 | 16.76 |
Half time 62.9 BPM · double time 251.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (477.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- No MoneyGalantisF♯ minor126BPM
- Doolin‐DaltonEaglesF♯ minor126BPM
- God Put a Smile Upon Your FaceColdplayF♯ minor127BPM
- Hope There’s SomeoneAviciiF♯ minor125BPM
- There’s More to Life Than This (recorded live at the Milk Bar toilets)BjörkF♯ minor124BPM
- UnisonCéline DionF♯ minor124BPM
- The World Is MineDavid Guetta feat. JD DavisF♯ minor128BPM
- AmirveltScannerF♯ minor123BPM
- WaitThe BeatlesF♯ minor129BPM
- Don’t Stop the MusicRihannaF♯ minor123BPM
Recordings in F sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F sharp minorAll songs at 126 BPMF♯ minor at 120–129 BPMAphex Twin
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 3217c9aa-51c5-4ce9-b880-5d8e9422a372.