Meat Puppets · Monsters
Like Being Alive
Like Being Alive is in D major at 106.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
107 BPM · Andantemedian of 133 analyses · 106.8–106.8 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
- 133people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 561.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.14dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.93Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.183Essentia'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
133 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 133 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 106.8 BPM one beat lasts 561.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 140.4 ms and a dotted eighth 421.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 213.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 3.14 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 0.93 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 107 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2247.2 | 0.45 |
| Half note | 2 | 1123.6 | 0.89 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 842.7 | 1.19 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 561.8 | 1.78 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 374.5 | 2.67 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 421.3 | 2.37 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 280.9 | 3.56 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 187.3 | 5.34 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 210.7 | 4.75 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 140.4 | 7.12 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 93.6 | 10.68 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 70.2 | 14.24 |
Half time 53.4 BPM · double time 213.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (561.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- Knowing Me, Knowing YouABBAD major108BPM
- JessicaThe Allman Brothers BandD major106BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 107 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 107 BPMD major at 100–109 BPMMeat Puppets
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 742e8cb5-7653-4d0e-980c-aade245df23d.