Kraftwerk · Autobahn
Autobahn
Autobahn is in D minor at 164.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
165 BPM · Vivacemedian of 172 analyses · 86–165 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 172people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 363.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.7Hz · -5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.61dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.631Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.178Essentia'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
172 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 172 readings; 73% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 86 to 165 BPM.
At 164.9 BPM one beat lasts 363.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91 ms and a dotted eighth 272.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 329.8. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.7 Hz, which is 5 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 3.61 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 0.631 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 165 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1455.4 | 0.69 |
| Half note | 2 | 727.7 | 1.37 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 545.8 | 1.83 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 363.9 | 2.75 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 242.6 | 4.12 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 272.9 | 3.66 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 181.9 | 5.5 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 121.3 | 8.25 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 136.4 | 7.33 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 91 | 10.99 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 60.6 | 16.49 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.5 | 21.99 |
Half time 82.5 BPM · double time 329.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (363.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Come TogetherThe BeatlesD minor165BPM
- Wake UpRage Against the MachineD minor165BPM
- Chan ChanBuena Vista Social ClubD minor165BPM
- Have It AllFoo FightersD minor164BPM
- Help MeJoni MitchellD minor164BPM
- Every Little Thing She Does Is MagicThe PoliceD minor164BPM
- KashmirLed ZeppelinD minor163BPM
- The Thunder RollsGarth BrooksD minor163BPM
- Changes3 Doors DownD minor163BPM
- Southern ManNeil YoungD minor163BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 165 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 165 BPMD minor at 160–169 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 88 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1fcc329c-a3c1-486e-8345-565e7f261ab7.