Genesis · Invisible Touch
Throwing It All Away
Throwing It All Away is in D flat major at 84 beats per minute.
Tempo
84 BPM · Andantemedian of 170 analyses · 83.9–84 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 79%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 170people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 714.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.59dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.788Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.142Essentia'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
170 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 79% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 170 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 84 BPM one beat lasts 714.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 178.6 ms and a dotted eighth 535.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42 BPM, counted twice as fast 168. 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 4.59 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 0.788 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 flat 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 D♭ major
Each of these differs from D♭ 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 84 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2857.1 | 0.35 |
| Half note | 2 | 1428.6 | 0.7 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1071.4 | 0.93 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 714.3 | 1.4 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 476.2 | 2.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 535.7 | 1.87 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 357.1 | 2.8 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 238.1 | 4.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 267.9 | 3.73 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 178.6 | 5.6 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 119 | 8.4 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 89.3 | 11.2 |
Half time 42 BPM · double time 168 BPM. Every row is one beat (714.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- LegendaryDayaD♭ major84BPM
- ChancesDidoD♭ major84BPM
- The Long Day Is OverNorah JonesD♭ major85BPM
- Give Peace a ChanceThe Plastic Ono BandD♭ major85BPM
- Otherside of the GameErykah BaduD♭ major83BPM
- FallingforyouThe 1975D♭ major85BPM
- Somebody’s MeEnrique IglesiasD♭ major83BPM
- PositivityBlack Eyed PeasD♭ major85BPM
- Treat You BetterShawn MendesD♭ major83BPM
- CrucifyTori AmosD♭ major83BPM
Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 84 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D flat majorAll songs at 84 BPMD♭ major at 80–89 BPMGenesis
MusicBrainz collapses 90 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6f175715-d45e-474e-a498-73070735d58a.