TempoPeek

Dr. Dre · 2001: Instrumentals

The Next Episode

The Next Episode is in D minor at 95.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

95 BPM · Andantemedian of 147 analyses · 95.2–95.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
79%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
147people who ran the extractor
One beat
628.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
445.4Hz · +21 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.59dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.886Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.53Essentia'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

147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 79% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 95.4 BPM one beat lasts 628.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 157.2 ms and a dotted eighth 471.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 190.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.4 Hz, which is 21 cents above 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 6.59 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 0.886 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 95 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42515.70.4
Half note21257.90.8
Dotted quarter1.5943.41.06
Quarter note (one beat)1628.91.59
Quarter triplet0.667419.32.39
Dotted eighth0.75471.72.12
Eighth note0.5314.53.18
Eighth triplet0.333209.64.77
Dotted sixteenth0.375235.84.24
Sixteenth note0.25157.26.36
Sixteenth triplet0.167104.89.54
Thirty-second note0.12578.612.72

Half time 47.7 BPM · double time 190.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (628.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. The Next EpisodeDr. Dre featuring Snoop DoggE♭ minor95BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. What I GotSublimeD minor96BPM
  2. Straight UpPaula AbdulD minor96BPM
  3. Everybody’s FoolEvanescenceD minor95BPM
  4. No Tellin’DrakeD minor95BPM
  5. Picture Me Rollin’2Pac feat. Danny Boy, Syke & CPOD minor96BPM
  6. Brain DamageEminemD minor95BPM
  7. EngelRammsteinD minor96BPM
  8. Get Another BoyfriendBackstreet BoysD minor96BPM
  9. Dani CaliforniaRed Hot Chili PeppersD minor96BPM
  10. SpellboundAC/DCD minor96BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 95 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 95 BPMD minor at 90–99 BPMDr. Dre

MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 075a9095-3d13-4c9c-af79-9337237692a4.