David Bowie · Scary Monsters… and Super Creeps
Scream Like a Baby
Scream Like a Baby is in G minor at 114.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
114 BPM · Moderatomedian of 161 analyses · 114.4–115.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 161people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 524.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.47dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.95Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.22Essentia'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
161 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 161 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 114.4 BPM one beat lasts 524.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 131.1 ms and a dotted eighth 393.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 228.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 2.47 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 0.95 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 G 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 G minor
Each of these differs from G 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 114 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2097.9 | 0.48 |
| Half note | 2 | 1049 | 0.95 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 786.7 | 1.27 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 524.5 | 1.91 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 349.7 | 2.86 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 393.4 | 2.54 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 262.2 | 3.81 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 174.8 | 5.72 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 196.7 | 5.08 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 131.1 | 7.63 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 87.4 | 11.44 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 65.6 | 15.25 |
Half time 57.2 BPM · double time 228.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (524.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Ice Ice BabyVanilla IceG minor116BPM
- Someday You Will Be LovedDeath Cab for CutieG minor113BPM
- Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)Talking HeadsG minor113BPM
- Naked in the RainRed Hot Chili PeppersG minor117BPM
- Daffodil LamentThe CranberriesG minor117BPM
- Goodbye Pork Pie HatJeff BeckG minor117BPM
- Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)AerosmithG minor117BPM
- Feeling GoodNina SimoneG minor112BPM
- Trampled Under FootLed ZeppelinG minor112BPM
- Flamenco SketchesMiles DavisG minor117BPM
Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 114 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G minorAll songs at 114 BPMG minor at 110–119 BPMDavid Bowie
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 270f2038-d9ed-4b4b-b3b8-d1968a7801f9.