Red Hot Chili Peppers · Stadium Arcadium
Storm in a Teacup
Storm in a Teacup is in C major at 102.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
102 BPM · Andantemedian of 144 analyses · 102.2–102.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 72%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 144people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 587.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.58dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.782Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.056Essentia'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
144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 72% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 90% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 102.2 BPM one beat lasts 587.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 146.8 ms and a dotted eighth 440.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 204.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.58 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 0.782 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 C major; 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 C major
Each of these differs from C major 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 102 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2348.3 | 0.43 |
| Half note | 2 | 1174.2 | 0.85 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 880.6 | 1.14 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 587.1 | 1.7 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 391.4 | 2.55 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 440.3 | 2.27 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 293.5 | 3.41 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 195.7 | 5.11 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 220.2 | 4.54 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 146.8 | 6.81 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 97.8 | 10.22 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 73.4 | 13.63 |
Half time 51.1 BPM · double time 204.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (587.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- Angel Of HarlemU2C major103BPM
- HallelujahJeff BuckleyC major103BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 102 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 102 BPMC major at 100–109 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id aa759be9-5172-48b1-84e5-26854cf39e08.