Michael Jackson · Bad
Another Part of Me
Another Part of Me is in D minor at 106 beats per minute.
Tempo
106 BPM · Andantemedian of 278 analyses · 106–106.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 278people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 566milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.33dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.786Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.307Essentia'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
278 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 278 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 106 BPM one beat lasts 566 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 141.5 ms and a dotted eighth 424.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53 BPM, counted twice as fast 212. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 5.33 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 0.786 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 106 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2264.2 | 0.44 |
| Half note | 2 | 1132.1 | 0.88 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 849.1 | 1.18 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 566 | 1.77 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 377.4 | 2.65 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 424.5 | 2.36 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 283 | 3.53 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 188.7 | 5.3 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 212.3 | 4.71 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 141.5 | 7.07 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 94.3 | 10.6 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 70.8 | 14.13 |
Half time 53 BPM · double time 212 BPM. Every row is one beat (566 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Wheel in the SkyJourneyD minor106BPM
- I Missed AgainPhil CollinsD minor106BPM
- Bitter CreekEaglesD minor107BPM
- I Wanna RockTwisted SisterD minor107BPM
- Long Time GoneCrosby, Stills & NashD minor107BPM
- Drug BalladEminemD minor105BPM
- Ella GuruCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandD minor107BPM
- Gimme the LightSean PaulD minor107BPM
- The Brothers CupThe Red Hot Chili PeppersD minor107BPM
- I Like DirtRed Hot Chili PeppersD minor105BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 106 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 106 BPMD minor at 100–109 BPMMichael Jackson
MusicBrainz collapses 19 recording ids into this one. Recording id 778e7766-3e46-4b4a-9313-00e260e76c3e.