Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · Trout Mask Replica

Well

Well is in D minor at 104.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

104 BPM · Andantemedian of 142 analyses · 103.7–114.1 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
142people who ran the extractor
One beat
575.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
451.7Hz · +45.5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.79dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.921Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.222Essentia'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

142 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 142 readings; 67% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 103.7 to 114.1 BPM.

At 104.2 BPM one beat lasts 575.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 144 ms and a dotted eighth 431.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 208.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 451.7 Hz, which is 45.5 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 6.79 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 0.921 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 104 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42303.30.43
Half note21151.60.87
Dotted quarter1.5863.71.16
Quarter note (one beat)1575.81.74
Quarter triplet0.667383.92.61
Dotted eighth0.75431.92.32
Eighth note0.5287.93.47
Eighth triplet0.333191.95.21
Dotted sixteenth0.375215.94.63
Sixteenth note0.251446.95
Sixteenth triplet0.1679610.42
Thirty-second note0.1257213.89

Half time 52.1 BPM · double time 208.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (575.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. FastloveGeorge MichaelD minor104BPM
  2. I Like DirtRed Hot Chili PeppersD minor105BPM
  3. Drug BalladEminemD minor105BPM
  4. It’s Too LateCarole KingD minor104BPM
  5. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2Pink FloydD minor104BPM
  6. The Happiest Days of Our LivesPink FloydD minor104BPM
  7. You Know I’m No GoodAmy WinehouseD minor104BPM
  8. The ClairvoyantIron MaidenD minor103BPM
  9. Who Is ItMichael JacksonD minor103BPM
  10. I Might Be WrongRadioheadD minor103BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 104 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 104 BPMD minor at 100–109 BPMCaptain Beefheart & His Magic Band

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id dd21f737-cc43-4b61-9b5b-62b33f36777e.