Eagles · Desperado
Certain Kind of Fool
Certain Kind of Fool is in D major at 112.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
113 BPM · Moderatomedian of 203 analyses · 112.6–112.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 203people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 532.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.5Hz · +10 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.94dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.751Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.076Essentia'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
203 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 203 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 112.6 BPM one beat lasts 532.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.2 ms and a dotted eighth 399.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 225.2. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.5 Hz, which is 10 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 3.94 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 0.751 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 113 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2131.4 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1065.7 | 0.94 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 799.3 | 1.25 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 532.9 | 1.88 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 355.2 | 2.82 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 399.6 | 2.5 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 266.4 | 3.75 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 177.6 | 5.63 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 199.8 | 5 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 133.2 | 7.51 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 88.8 | 11.26 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 66.6 | 15.01 |
Half time 56.3 BPM · double time 225.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (532.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- CoolGwen StefaniD major112BPM
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- Along Comes a WomanChicagoD major112BPM
- Under PressureQueen & David BowieD major113BPM
- Get DownAudio AdrenalineD major112BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 113 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 113 BPMD major at 110–119 BPMEagles
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id fa0c1271-aeac-4118-8f6b-249dd89cd8a4.