TempoPeek

Thrice · Major/Minor

Cataracts

Cataracts is in B major at 155.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

155 BPM · Allegromedian of 213 analyses · 155.4–155.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
213people who ran the extractor
One beat
386.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.28dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.931Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.01Essentia'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

213 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 213 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 155.4 BPM one beat lasts 386.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 96.5 ms and a dotted eighth 289.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 77.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 310.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 cents above 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 3.28 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 0.931 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 B 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 155 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41544.40.65
Half note2772.21.3
Dotted quarter1.5579.21.73
Quarter note (one beat)1386.12.59
Quarter triplet0.667257.43.89
Dotted eighth0.75289.63.45
Eighth note0.5193.15.18
Eighth triplet0.333128.77.77
Dotted sixteenth0.375144.86.91
Sixteenth note0.2596.510.36
Sixteenth triplet0.16764.415.54
Thirty-second note0.12548.320.72

Half time 77.7 BPM · double time 310.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (386.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. November RainGuns N’ RosesB major155BPM
  2. People Need LoveABBAB major155BPM
  3. EyeThe Smashing PumpkinsB major156BPM
  4. Song for the AskingSimon & GarfunkelB major154BPM
  5. Whatcha See Is Whatcha GetThe DramaticsB major153BPM
  6. Skinny LoveBon IverB major153BPM
  7. You Found MeThe FrayB major152BPM
  8. I’m YoursJason MrazB major151BPM
  9. Hate & WarThe ClashB major151BPM
  10. Love ManOtis ReddingB major151BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 155 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 155 BPMB major at 150–159 BPMThrice

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 66c768b5-67a0-4848-af8f-3f9d3f6a38d9.