Red Hot Chili Peppers · By the Way
Can’t Stop
Can’t Stop is in A minor at 91.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
92 BPM · Andantemedian of 174 analyses · 91.8–92.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 65%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 174people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 653.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.5Hz · -10 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.51dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.953Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.354Essentia'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
174 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 65% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 174 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 91.8 BPM one beat lasts 653.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 163.4 ms and a dotted eighth 490.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 45.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 183.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.5 Hz, which is 10 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 2.51 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 0.953 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 A 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A 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 92 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2614.4 | 0.38 |
| Half note | 2 | 1307.2 | 0.76 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 980.4 | 1.02 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 653.6 | 1.53 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 435.7 | 2.3 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 490.2 | 2.04 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 326.8 | 3.06 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 217.9 | 4.59 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 245.1 | 4.08 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 163.4 | 6.12 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 108.9 | 9.18 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 81.7 | 12.24 |
Half time 45.9 BPM · double time 183.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (653.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The LovecatsThe CureA minor92BPM
- Put Out the FireQueenA minor92BPM
- Apache Rose PeacockRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor92BPM
- Desecration SmileRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor92BPM
- Fuck YouDr. Dre featuring Devin a/k/a The Dude & Snoop DoggA minor92BPM
- Hits From the BongCypress HillA minor92BPM
- I Need a Man to LoveBig Brother & the Holding CompanyA minor92BPM
- Killing Me SoftlyFugeesA minor92BPM
- Sister MorphineThe Rolling StonesA minor91BPM
- Gotta Love ItAerosmithA minor91BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 92 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 92 BPMA minor at 90–99 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 38 recording ids into this one. Recording id 04ea96b6-f5b7-49a5-98b1-97f4ae55dee7.