Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · Trout Mask Replica
Ella Guru
Ella Guru is in D minor at 107.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
107 BPM · Andantemedian of 134 analyses · 107–107.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 79%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 134people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 559.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.98dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.586Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.004Essentia'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
134 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 79% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 107.2 BPM one beat lasts 559.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 139.9 ms and a dotted eighth 419.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 214.4. 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 3.98 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 0.586 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 107 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2238.8 | 0.45 |
| Half note | 2 | 1119.4 | 0.89 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 839.6 | 1.19 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 559.7 | 1.79 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 373.1 | 2.68 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 419.8 | 2.38 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 279.9 | 3.57 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 186.6 | 5.36 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 209.9 | 4.76 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 139.9 | 7.15 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 93.3 | 10.72 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 70 | 14.29 |
Half time 53.6 BPM · double time 214.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (559.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Long Time GoneCrosby, Stills & NashD minor107BPM
- Gimme the LightSean PaulD minor107BPM
- The Brothers CupThe Red Hot Chili PeppersD minor107BPM
- Bitter CreekEaglesD minor107BPM
- I Wanna RockTwisted SisterD minor107BPM
- Help the PoorB.B. King & Eric ClaptonD minor107BPM
- Why Can’t I Be You?The CureD minor108BPM
- Enemy in MeShotgun MessiahD minor108BPM
- And the Cradle Will Rock…Van HalenD minor108BPM
- Too ShyKajagoogooD minor108BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 107 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 107 BPMD minor at 100–109 BPMCaptain Beefheart & His Magic Band
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 551d0095-8d5e-41a8-af0e-a301f53af2f4.