J. Cole · Yours Truly
Rise Above
Rise Above is in D minor at 81 beats per minute.
Tempo
81 BPM · Andantemedian of 188 analyses · 81–81 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 188people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 740.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.63dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.905Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.143Essentia'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
188 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 188 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 81 BPM one beat lasts 740.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 185.2 ms and a dotted eighth 555.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 40.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 162. 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 4.63 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 0.905 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 81 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2963 | 0.34 |
| Half note | 2 | 1481.5 | 0.68 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1111.1 | 0.9 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 740.7 | 1.35 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 493.8 | 2.03 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 555.6 | 1.8 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 370.4 | 2.7 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 246.9 | 4.05 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 277.8 | 3.6 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 185.2 | 5.4 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 123.5 | 8.1 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 92.6 | 10.8 |
Half time 40.5 BPM · double time 162 BPM. Every row is one beat (740.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Find an IslandBENEED minor82BPM
- AmityvilleEminem featuring Bizarre from D‐12D minor80BPM
- Obscured by CloudsPink FloydD minor82BPM
- Slice of Your PieMötley CrüeD minor83BPM
- On the RunPink FloydD minor83BPM
- Negative CreepNirvanaD minor83BPM
- Meet the ParentsJay‐ZD minor84BPM
- There’s a WorldNeil YoungD minor78BPM
- I Knew I Loved YouSavage GardenD minor85BPM
- KarmaAlicia KeysD minor85BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 81 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 81 BPMD minor at 80–89 BPMJ. Cole
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 33d06e17-cc11-45b6-8bae-5a05336aa9b3.