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Six Blade Knife
Six Blade Knife is in D minor at 117.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
117 BPM · Moderatomedian of 130 analyses · 117–117.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 130people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 511.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.17dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.492Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.393Essentia'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
130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 117.4 BPM one beat lasts 511.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 127.8 ms and a dotted eighth 383.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 234.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 6.17 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 0.492 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 117 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2044.3 | 0.49 |
| Half note | 2 | 1022.1 | 0.98 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 766.6 | 1.3 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 511.1 | 1.96 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 340.7 | 2.94 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 383.3 | 2.61 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 255.5 | 3.91 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 170.4 | 5.87 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 191.7 | 5.22 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 127.8 | 7.83 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 85.2 | 11.74 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 63.9 | 15.65 |
Half time 58.7 BPM · double time 234.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (511.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Eyes of a WomanJourneyD minor117BPM
- Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My MonkeyThe BeatlesD minor118BPM
- Car WashRose RoyceD minor117BPM
- SexyBackJustin Timberlake feat. TimbalandD minor117BPM
- ARTPOPLady GagaD minor117BPM
- That’s AllMichael BubléD minor117BPM
- Nick of TimeBonnie RaittD minor118BPM
- 1984David BowieD minor118BPM
- MesopotamiaThe B‐52sD minor118BPM
- Run Like HellPink FloydD minor117BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 117 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 117 BPMD minor at 110–119 BPMDire Straits
MusicBrainz collapses 36 recording ids into this one. Recording id 900e8100-3d73-4b36-b417-a0f302e80e27.