David Bowie · Low
Weeping Wall
Weeping Wall is in D minor at 141.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
142 BPM · Allegromedian of 211 analyses · 141.3–142.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 211people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 422.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.55dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.238Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.113Essentia'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
211 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 211 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 141.9 BPM one beat lasts 422.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105.7 ms and a dotted eighth 317.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71 BPM, counted twice as fast 283.8. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.55 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 0.238 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 142 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1691.3 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 845.7 | 1.18 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 634.2 | 1.58 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 422.8 | 2.37 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 281.9 | 3.55 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 317.1 | 3.15 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 211.4 | 4.73 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 140.9 | 7.1 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 158.6 | 6.31 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 105.7 | 9.46 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 70.5 | 14.19 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.9 | 18.92 |
Half time 71 BPM · double time 283.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (422.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Old ManNeil YoungD minor141BPM
- Can’t Stand Losing YouThe PoliceD minor143BPM
- Under My WheelsAlice CooperD minor143BPM
- I Want You (She’s So Heavy)The BeatlesD minor143BPM
- I Hate You Then I Love YouCéline Dion duet with Luciano PavarottiD minor141BPM
- The Prophet’s SongQueenD minor140BPM
- Don’t Stand So Close to MeThe PoliceD minor140BPM
- Staring at the SunU2D minor140BPM
- Paradise (Not for Me)MadonnaD minor144BPM
- I Come in PeaceShotgun MessiahD minor140BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 142 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 142 BPMD minor at 140–149 BPMDavid Bowie
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 8a14146f-bff5-4ec9-a484-a7bd3bc35c90.