Red Hot Chili Peppers · By the Way

Can’t Stop

Can’t Stop is in A minor at 91.8 beats per minute.

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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 valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42614.40.38
Half note21307.20.76
Dotted quarter1.5980.41.02
Quarter note (one beat)1653.61.53
Quarter triplet0.667435.72.3
Dotted eighth0.75490.22.04
Eighth note0.5326.83.06
Eighth triplet0.333217.94.59
Dotted sixteenth0.375245.14.08
Sixteenth note0.25163.46.12
Sixteenth triplet0.167108.99.18
Thirty-second note0.12581.712.24

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

  1. The LovecatsThe CureA minor92BPM
  2. Put Out the FireQueenA minor92BPM
  3. Apache Rose PeacockRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor92BPM
  4. Desecration SmileRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor92BPM
  5. Fuck YouDr. Dre featuring Devin a/k/a The Dude & Snoop DoggA minor92BPM
  6. Hits From the BongCypress HillA minor92BPM
  7. I Need a Man to LoveBig Brother & the Holding CompanyA minor92BPM
  8. Killing Me SoftlyFugeesA minor92BPM
  9. Sister MorphineThe Rolling StonesA minor91BPM
  10. 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.