Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · Trout Mask Replica
Frownland
Frownland is in C major at 142.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
143 BPM · Allegromedian of 134 analyses · 125.9–143.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 134people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 420.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.3Hz · +13 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.81dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.883Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.015Essentia'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. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 60% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 125.9 to 143.1 BPM.
At 142.7 BPM one beat lasts 420.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105.1 ms and a dotted eighth 315.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 285.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.3 Hz, which is 13 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 3.81 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 0.883 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 143 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1681.9 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 840.9 | 1.19 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 630.7 | 1.59 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 420.5 | 2.38 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 280.3 | 3.57 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 315.3 | 3.17 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 210.2 | 4.76 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 140.2 | 7.14 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 157.7 | 6.34 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 105.1 | 9.51 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 70.1 | 14.27 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.6 | 19.03 |
Half time 71.4 BPM · double time 285.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (420.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- ShiloNeil DiamondC major143BPM
- Old Brown ShoeThe BeatlesC major143BPM
- SkinMadonnaC major143BPM
- I Can’t Stand Up for Falling DownElvis Costello & The AttractionsC major142BPM
- Sweetest Thing (the single mix)U2C major142BPM
- Growin’ UpBruce SpringsteenC major143BPM
- Amen OmenBen HarperC major142BPM
- Love Is a RoseLinda RonstadtC major144BPM
- An Occasional DreamDavid BowieC major142BPM
- Time and Time AgainCounting CrowsC major144BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 143 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 143 BPMC major at 140–149 BPMCaptain Beefheart & His Magic Band
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9e516210-dd88-492a-bd15-54cf730da346.