Tool · Lateralus
The Grudge
The Grudge is in G minor at 78.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
78 BPM · Andantemedian of 127 analyses · 77.9–98.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 127people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 768.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.7dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.88Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.994Essentia'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
127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 62% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 77.9 to 98.5 BPM.
At 78.1 BPM one beat lasts 768.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 192.1 ms and a dotted eighth 576.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 39.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 156.2. A score would mark that Andante, 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 3.7 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 0.88 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 78 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 3073 | 0.33 |
| Half note | 2 | 1536.5 | 0.65 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1152.4 | 0.87 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 768.2 | 1.3 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 512.2 | 1.95 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 576.2 | 1.74 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 384.1 | 2.6 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 256.1 | 3.91 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 288.1 | 3.47 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 192.1 | 5.21 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 128 | 7.81 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 96 | 10.41 |
Half time 39.1 BPM · double time 156.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (768.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Can U Get Away2PacG minor76BPM
- New LeafMeat PuppetsG minor84BPM
- Back of My HandThe Rolling StonesG minor85BPM
- On/OffDaft PunkG minor86BPM
- Paper PlanesM.I.A.G minor86BPM
- IncarcerationScannerG minor86BPM
- Seduces MeCéline DionG minor89BPM
- If We Could Start OverCéline DionG minor89BPM
- JanineDavid BowieG minor89BPM
- Alone in KyotoAirG minor90BPM
Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 78 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
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MusicBrainz collapses 42 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8a2fb0e1-1126-4237-9b8d-6f3359546b4b.