Beck · Sea Change
Lost Cause
Lost Cause is in F major at 120.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
120 BPM · Allegromedian of 138 analyses · 119.9–120.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 138people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 499.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.38dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.542Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.998Essentia'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
138 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 138 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 120.2 BPM one beat lasts 499.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.8 ms and a dotted eighth 374.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 240.4. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 4.38 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 0.542 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 120 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1996.7 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 998.3 | 1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 748.8 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 499.2 | 2 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 332.8 | 3.01 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 374.4 | 2.67 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 249.6 | 4.01 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 166.4 | 6.01 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 187.2 | 5.34 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124.8 | 8.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 83.2 | 12.02 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.4 | 16.03 |
Half time 60.1 BPM · double time 240.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (499.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Living Daylightsa‐haF major120BPM
- Suburban WarArcade FireF major120BPM
- DreamsFleetwood MacF major120BPM
- Smoke AgainChance the Rapper feat. Ab‐SoulF major120BPM
- NightvisionDaft PunkF major120BPM
- I Like It RoughLady GagaF major120BPM
- Never Be Like YouFlume feat. kaiF major120BPM
- Spanish LessonMadonnaF major120BPM
- Good Girls Go BadCobra Starship feat. Leighton MeesterF major120BPM
- GunCHVRCHESF major120BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 120 BPMF major at 120–129 BPMBeck
MusicBrainz collapses 27 recording ids into this one. Recording id bfc733a7-adc7-409c-b50b-1aaf3014e0b4.