TempoPeek

Depeche Mode · Construction Time Again

Pipeline

Pipeline is in E minor at 162.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

162 BPM · Vivacemedian of 137 analyses · 162.2–162.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
137people who ran the extractor
One beat
369.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.03dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.571Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.074Essentia'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

137 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 137 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 162.4 BPM one beat lasts 369.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 92.4 ms and a dotted eighth 277.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 81.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 324.8. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 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 5.03 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 0.571 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 E 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 E minor

Each of these differs from E 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 162 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41477.80.68
Half note2738.91.35
Dotted quarter1.5554.21.8
Quarter note (one beat)1369.52.71
Quarter triplet0.667246.34.06
Dotted eighth0.75277.13.61
Eighth note0.5184.75.41
Eighth triplet0.333123.28.12
Dotted sixteenth0.375138.57.22
Sixteenth note0.2592.410.83
Sixteenth triplet0.16761.616.24
Thirty-second note0.12546.221.65

Half time 81.2 BPM · double time 324.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (369.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. PipelineThe Alan Parsons ProjectD minor86BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Go With the FlowQueens of the Stone AgeE minor163BPM
  2. CochiseAudioslaveE minor162BPM
  3. Crawling King SnakeThe DoorsE minor162BPM
  4. MagnoliaPlayboi CartiE minor163BPM
  5. Fly Like the WindMeat PuppetsE minor162BPM
  6. She’s Too ToughForeignerE minor162BPM
  7. Kids in AmericaKim WildeE minor162BPM
  8. A Day in the LifeThe BeatlesE minor164BPM
  9. WhiteoutTim DaviesE minor165BPM
  10. AwakenYesE minor165BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 162 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 162 BPME minor at 160–169 BPMDepeche Mode

MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id dfb79386-4c95-47f6-a1bc-b6c268e55304.