Tool · Lateralus
The Patient
The Patient is in D minor at 111.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
112 BPM · Moderatomedian of 140 analyses · 111.5–111.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 140people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 538.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 7.24dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.599Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.017Essentia'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
140 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 140 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 111.5 BPM one beat lasts 538.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 134.5 ms and a dotted eighth 403.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 223. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 7.24 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 0.599 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 112 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2152.5 | 0.46 |
| Half note | 2 | 1076.2 | 0.93 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 807.2 | 1.24 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 538.1 | 1.86 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 358.7 | 2.79 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 403.6 | 2.48 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 269.1 | 3.72 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 179.4 | 5.58 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 201.8 | 4.96 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 134.5 | 7.43 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 89.7 | 11.15 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 67.3 | 14.87 |
Half time 55.8 BPM · double time 223 BPM. Every row is one beat (538.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Jimmy Olsen’s BluesSpin DoctorsD minor112BPM
- Adventure of a LifetimeColdplayD minor112BPM
- Dr. FeelgoodMötley CrüeD minor111BPM
- Blue in GreenMiles DavisD minor112BPM
- Get UglyJason DeruloD minor111BPM
- Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?Rod StewartD minor112BPM
- Wearing and TearingLed ZeppelinD minor112BPM
- Something Got Me StartedSimply RedD minor112BPM
- I Thank YouZZ TopD minor111BPM
- D.J.David BowieD minor112BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 112 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 112 BPMD minor at 110–119 BPMTool
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id c4a46de4-6a33-4813-9738-a1d84276a8b7.