Daft Punk feat. Todd Edwards · Random Access Memories
Fragments of Time
Fragments of Time is in C major at 130.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
130 BPM · Allegromedian of 368 analyses · 130–130.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 368people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 461.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.6Hz · -5.5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.89dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.944Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.406Essentia'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
368 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 368 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 130.1 BPM one beat lasts 461.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115.3 ms and a dotted eighth 345.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 260.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.6 Hz, which is 5.5 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 2.89 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 0.944 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 130 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1844.7 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 922.4 | 1.08 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 691.8 | 1.45 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 461.2 | 2.17 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 307.5 | 3.25 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 345.9 | 2.89 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 230.6 | 4.34 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 153.7 | 6.51 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 172.9 | 5.78 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 115.3 | 8.67 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 76.9 | 13.01 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.6 | 17.35 |
Half time 65.1 BPM · double time 260.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (461.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- LuckyJason Mraz feat. Colbie CaillatC major130BPM
- Fool in the RainLed ZeppelinC major130BPM
- Walking in MemphisMarc CohnC major130BPM
- Sneaky FeelingsElvis CostelloC major130BPM
- Above and BeyondPaul DinletirC major130BPM
- Danza kuduroLucenzo feat. Don OmarC major130BPM
- Coachella — Woodstock in My MindLana Del ReyC major130BPM
- MercyDuffyC major130BPM
- ListenDavid Guetta feat. John LegendC major130BPM
- Do You Realize??The Flaming LipsC major130BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 130 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 130 BPMC major at 130–139 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 770894b7-030e-404d-a833-4a77d0558cb2.