Paul Dinletir · Origins
Motoneuron
Motoneuron is in F minor at 85.2 beats per minute.
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 value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2816.9 | 0.36 |
| Half note | 2 | 1408.5 | 0.71 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1056.3 | 0.95 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 704.2 | 1.42 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 469.5 | 2.13 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 528.2 | 1.89 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 352.1 | 2.84 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 234.7 | 4.26 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 264.1 | 3.79 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 176.1 | 5.68 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 117.4 | 8.52 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 88 | 11.36 |
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
- Scentless ApprenticeNirvanaF minor85BPM
- The LifeAlicia KeysF minor85BPM
- Don’t Push Me50 Cent feat. Lloyd Banks of G Unit & EminemF minor86BPM
- Megalithic SymphonyAWOLNATIONF minor86BPM
- The Dogs of WarPink FloydF minor86BPM
- XxplosiveDr. DreF minor84BPM
- Army of MeBjörkF minor86BPM
- EnjoyBjörkF minor84BPM
- Just Got Back From Baby’sZZ TopF minor84BPM
- 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.