TempoPeek

System of a Down · Toxicity

Chop Suey!

Chop Suey! is in G minor at 128.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

129 BPM · Allegromedian of 142 analyses · 128.7–129 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
93%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
142people who ran the extractor
One beat
465.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
436.8Hz · -12.5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.8dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.913Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.085Essentia'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

142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 142 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 128.8 BPM one beat lasts 465.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116.5 ms and a dotted eighth 349.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 257.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436.8 Hz, which is 12.5 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 3.8 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 0.913 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 G 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 G minor

Each of these differs from G 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 129 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41863.40.54
Half note2931.71.07
Dotted quarter1.5698.81.43
Quarter note (one beat)1465.82.15
Quarter triplet0.667310.63.22
Dotted eighth0.75349.42.86
Eighth note0.5232.94.29
Eighth triplet0.333155.36.44
Dotted sixteenth0.375174.75.72
Sixteenth note0.25116.58.59
Sixteenth triplet0.16777.612.88
Thirty-second note0.12558.217.17

Half time 64.4 BPM · double time 257.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (465.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Nature BoyMiles DavisG minor129BPM
  2. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest WordElton JohnG minor129BPM
  3. You Ain’t Got a Hold on MeAC/DCG minor128BPM
  4. Lively Up YourselfBob Marley & The WailersG minor130BPM
  5. Dance to the MusicSly & the Family StoneG minor128BPM
  6. We’re an American BandGrand Funk RailroadG minor128BPM
  7. Thieves in the TemplePrinceG minor130BPM
  8. Another DayAirG minor130BPM
  9. Think for YourselfThe BeatlesG minor130BPM
  10. PrimaveraSantanaG minor130BPM

Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 129 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G minorAll songs at 129 BPMG minor at 120–129 BPMSystem of a Down

MusicBrainz collapses 24 recording ids into this one. Recording id 46c7368a-013a-47b6-97cc-e55e7ab25213.