Elvis Costello · My Aim Is True

Less Than Zero

Less Than Zero is in F major at 112.6 beats per minute.

Tempo

113 BPM · Moderatomedian of 144 analyses · 112.6–112.7 across the middle eight tenths

Key: F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 144people who ran the extractor
One beat: 532.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 6.75dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.395Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.152Essentia'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

144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 112.6 BPM one beat lasts 532.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.2 ms and a dotted eighth 399.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 225.2. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 6.75 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 0.395 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 F major; 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 F major

Each of these differs from F major 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 113 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	2131.4	0.47
Half note	2	1065.7	0.94
Dotted quarter	1.5	799.3	1.25
Quarter note (one beat)	1	532.9	1.88
Quarter triplet	0.667	355.2	2.82
Dotted eighth	0.75	399.6	2.5
Eighth note	0.5	266.4	3.75
Eighth triplet	0.333	177.6	5.63
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	199.8	5
Sixteenth note	0.25	133.2	7.51
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	88.8	11.26
Thirty-second note	0.125	66.6	15.01

Half time 56.3 BPM · double time 225.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (532.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 113 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F major All songs at 113 BPM F major at 110–119 BPM Elvis Costello

MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id f57fdb53-a5cf-46e8-8338-ced7bc207e10.