Falco · Einzelhaft
Der Kommissar
Der Kommissar is in D minor at 118.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
118 BPM · Moderatomedian of 209 analyses · 118.1–118.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 209people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 507.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 445.9Hz · +23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.31dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.914Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.373Essentia'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
209 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 209 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 118.2 BPM one beat lasts 507.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 126.9 ms and a dotted eighth 380.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 236.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.9 Hz, which is 23 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 5.31 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 0.914 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 118 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2030.5 | 0.49 |
| Half note | 2 | 1015.2 | 0.99 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 761.4 | 1.31 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 507.6 | 1.97 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 338.4 | 2.96 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 380.7 | 2.63 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 253.8 | 3.94 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 169.2 | 5.91 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 190.4 | 5.25 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 126.9 | 7.88 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 84.6 | 11.82 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 63.5 | 15.76 |
Half time 59.1 BPM · double time 236.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (507.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- 1984David BowieD minor118BPM
- MesopotamiaThe B‐52sD minor118BPM
- Nick of TimeBonnie RaittD minor118BPM
- This Velvet GloveRed Hot Chili PeppersD minor119BPM
- Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My MonkeyThe BeatlesD minor118BPM
- Six Blade KnifeDire StraitsD minor117BPM
- The Eyes of a WomanJourneyD minor117BPM
- Car WashRose RoyceD minor117BPM
- 3 A.M. Eternal (live at the S.S.L.)The KLFD minor119BPM
- The Man Who Sold the WorldDavid BowieD minor119BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 118 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 118 BPMD minor at 110–119 BPMFalco
MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 623becd0-f6f2-4891-81ae-2d9f487447d8.