TempoPeek

Cypress Hill · Black Sunday

Insane in the Brain

Insane in the Brain is in D minor at 102.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

102 BPM · Andantemedian of 234 analyses · 102–102.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
64%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
234people who ran the extractor
One beat
587.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
432.2Hz · -31 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.68dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.878Essentia'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

234 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 64% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 234 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 102.2 BPM one beat lasts 587.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 146.8 ms and a dotted eighth 440.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 204.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 432.2 Hz, which is 31 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 3.68 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 0.878 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 102 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42348.30.43
Half note21174.20.85
Dotted quarter1.5880.61.14
Quarter note (one beat)1587.11.7
Quarter triplet0.667391.42.55
Dotted eighth0.75440.32.27
Eighth note0.5293.53.41
Eighth triplet0.333195.75.11
Dotted sixteenth0.375220.24.54
Sixteenth note0.25146.86.81
Sixteenth triplet0.16797.810.22
Thirty-second note0.12573.413.63

Half time 51.1 BPM · double time 204.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (587.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. (I Can’t Get No) SatisfactionDEVOD minor102BPM
  2. Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)Bob Dylan & The BandD minor102BPM
  3. Saviour MachineDavid BowieD minor102BPM
  4. I Might Be WrongRadioheadD minor103BPM
  5. Paper CutsNirvanaD minor103BPM
  6. Song for a Future GenerationThe B‐52sD minor102BPM
  7. Who Is ItMichael JacksonD minor103BPM
  8. The Number of the BeastIron MaidenD minor101BPM
  9. The ClairvoyantIron MaidenD minor103BPM
  10. Heart and SoulJoy DivisionD minor101BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 102 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 102 BPMD minor at 100–109 BPMCypress Hill

MusicBrainz collapses 40 recording ids into this one. Recording id 29c3d007-4a1f-422a-957e-712a94c99764.