Depeche Mode · Playing the Angel
Precious
Precious is in E flat minor at 105 beats per minute.
Tempo
105 BPM · Andantemedian of 172 analyses · 104.9–105 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 172people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 571.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.65dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.89Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.068Essentia'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
172 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 172 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 105 BPM one beat lasts 571.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 142.9 ms and a dotted eighth 428.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 210. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.65 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 0.89 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 flat 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 105 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2285.7 | 0.44 |
| Half note | 2 | 1142.9 | 0.88 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 857.1 | 1.17 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 571.4 | 1.75 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 381 | 2.63 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 428.6 | 2.33 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 285.7 | 3.5 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 190.5 | 5.25 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 214.3 | 4.67 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 142.9 | 7 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 95.2 | 10.5 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 71.4 | 14 |
Half time 52.5 BPM · double time 210 BPM. Every row is one beat (571.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- In the EndLinkin ParkE♭ minor105BPM
- Island of WonderNelly Furtado feat. Caetano VelosoE♭ minor105BPM
- Wishing WellTerence Trent D’ArbyE♭ minor105BPM
- Die YoungBlack SabbathE♭ minor105BPM
- Mr. BrownstoneGuns N’ RosesE♭ minor106BPM
- Diesel PowerProdigyE♭ minor106BPM
- True to Your Heart98° and Stevie WonderE♭ minor106BPM
- I’m Only SleepingThe BeatlesE♭ minor103BPM
- Pushing Me AwayLinkin ParkE♭ minor103BPM
- Man in the BoxAlice in ChainsE♭ minor107BPM
Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 105 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 105 BPME♭ minor at 100–109 BPMDepeche Mode
MusicBrainz collapses 64 recording ids into this one. Recording id 06ff8b7e-a9a1-4804-8cc1-49b731bce172.