Paul Dinletir · Origins

Motoneuron

Motoneuron is in F minor at 85.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

85 BPM · Andantemedian of 176 analyses · 84.9–85.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
176people who ran the extractor
One beat
704.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
7.61dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.377Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.939Essentia'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

176 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 176 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 85.2 BPM one beat lasts 704.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 176.1 ms and a dotted eighth 528.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 170.4. 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 7.61 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 0.377 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 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 F minor

Each of these differs from F 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 85 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42816.90.36
Half note21408.50.71
Dotted quarter1.51056.30.95
Quarter note (one beat)1704.21.42
Quarter triplet0.667469.52.13
Dotted eighth0.75528.21.89
Eighth note0.5352.12.84
Eighth triplet0.333234.74.26
Dotted sixteenth0.375264.13.79
Sixteenth note0.25176.15.68
Sixteenth triplet0.167117.48.52
Thirty-second note0.1258811.36

Half time 42.6 BPM · double time 170.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (704.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Scentless ApprenticeNirvanaF minor85BPM
  2. The LifeAlicia KeysF minor85BPM
  3. Don’t Push Me50 Cent feat. Lloyd Banks of G Unit & EminemF minor86BPM
  4. Megalithic SymphonyAWOLNATIONF minor86BPM
  5. The Dogs of WarPink FloydF minor86BPM
  6. XxplosiveDr. DreF minor84BPM
  7. Army of MeBjörkF minor86BPM
  8. EnjoyBjörkF minor84BPM
  9. Just Got Back From Baby’sZZ TopF minor84BPM
  10. So Into YouAtlanta Rhythm SectionF minor86BPM

Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 85 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F minorAll songs at 85 BPMF minor at 80–89 BPMPaul Dinletir

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 9f84024e-5bec-4f32-b5c9-ce558df2b503.