Death Cab for Cutie · Transatlanticism
Tiny Vessels
Tiny Vessels is in D major at 146.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
147 BPM · Allegromedian of 171 analyses · 146.8–146.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 81%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 171people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 408.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.45dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.844Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.005Essentia'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
171 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 81% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 171 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 146.8 BPM one beat lasts 408.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.2 ms and a dotted eighth 306.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 293.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.45 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 0.844 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 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 147 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1634.9 | 0.61 |
| Half note | 2 | 817.4 | 1.22 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 613.1 | 1.63 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 408.7 | 2.45 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 272.5 | 3.67 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 306.5 | 3.26 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 204.4 | 4.89 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 136.2 | 7.34 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 153.3 | 6.52 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 102.2 | 9.79 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 68.1 | 14.68 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 51.1 | 19.57 |
Half time 73.4 BPM · double time 293.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (408.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Annie’s SongJohn DenverD major147BPM
- Always on My MindWillie NelsonD major147BPM
- Soul LoveDavid BowieD major147BPM
- Love Will Tear Us ApartJoy DivisionD major147BPM
- Eon Blue ApocalypseToolD major147BPM
- Rockaria!Electric Light OrchestraD major147BPM
- Fake Plastic TreesRadioheadD major147BPM
- Out of TearsThe Rolling StonesD major147BPM
- Closer to the HeartRushD major146BPM
- Sally MacLennaneThe PoguesD major148BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 147 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 147 BPMD major at 140–149 BPMDeath Cab for Cutie
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id a594b2c7-5e4f-4e81-9cda-91bab05da25e.