Red Hot Chili Peppers · Californication
I Like Dirt
I Like Dirt is in D minor at 104.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
105 BPM · Andantemedian of 132 analyses · 104.7–104.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 92%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 132people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 573.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.937Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.3Essentia'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
132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 92% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 104.7 BPM one beat lasts 573.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 143.3 ms and a dotted eighth 429.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 209.4. 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 4 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 0.937 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 105 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2292.3 | 0.44 |
| Half note | 2 | 1146.1 | 0.87 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 859.6 | 1.16 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 573.1 | 1.75 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 382 | 2.62 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 429.8 | 2.33 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 286.5 | 3.49 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 191 | 5.24 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 214.9 | 4.65 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 143.3 | 6.98 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 95.5 | 10.47 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 71.6 | 13.96 |
Half time 52.4 BPM · double time 209.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (573.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Drug BalladEminemD minor105BPM
- FastloveGeorge MichaelD minor104BPM
- WellCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandD minor104BPM
- It’s Too LateCarole KingD minor104BPM
- Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2Pink FloydD minor104BPM
- The Happiest Days of Our LivesPink FloydD minor104BPM
- You Know I’m No GoodAmy WinehouseD minor104BPM
- Another Part of MeMichael JacksonD minor106BPM
- Wheel in the SkyJourneyD minor106BPM
- I Missed AgainPhil CollinsD minor106BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 105 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 105 BPMD minor at 100–109 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id e90ee8cd-5e32-46d0-847f-ab82c399d107.