The KLF · The White Room
3 A.M. Eternal (live at the S.S.L.)
3 A.M. Eternal (live at the S.S.L.) is in D minor at 119.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
119 BPM · Moderatomedian of 139 analyses · 117.4–119.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 84%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 139people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 502.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 450.8Hz · +42 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.24dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.813Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.173Essentia'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
139 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 84% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 139 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 117.4 to 119.5 BPM.
At 119.3 BPM one beat lasts 502.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.7 ms and a dotted eighth 377.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 238.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 450.8 Hz, which is 42 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.24 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 0.813 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 119 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2011.7 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 1005.9 | 0.99 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 754.4 | 1.33 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 502.9 | 1.99 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 335.3 | 2.98 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 377.2 | 2.65 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 251.5 | 3.98 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 167.6 | 5.97 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 188.6 | 5.3 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 125.7 | 7.95 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 83.8 | 11.93 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.9 | 15.91 |
Half time 59.7 BPM · double time 238.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (502.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Man Who Sold the WorldDavid BowieD minor119BPM
- StayDavid BowieD minor119BPM
- Telegraph RoadDire StraitsD minor120BPM
- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)ABBAD minor120BPM
- This Velvet GloveRed Hot Chili PeppersD minor119BPM
- Revolution 9The BeatlesD minor120BPM
- ShowerBecky GD minor120BPM
- Roller SkateNatasha BedingfieldD minor120BPM
- RunAirD minor120BPM
- Beautiful, Dirty, RichLady GagaD minor120BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 119 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 119 BPMD minor at 110–119 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id b5cb57ee-0c93-4cf2-9507-29528516c9af.