Nirvana · Nevermind
Drain You
Drain You is in C sharp minor at 136 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 137 analyses · 132.7–139.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 27%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 137people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 441.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.07dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.949Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.152Essentia'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
137 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 27% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 137 readings; 52% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 132.7 to 139.7 BPM.
At 136 BPM one beat lasts 441.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.3 ms and a dotted eighth 330.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68 BPM, counted twice as fast 272. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 2.07 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 0.949 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 C sharp 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 C♯ minor
Each of these differs from C♯ 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 136 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1764.7 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 882.4 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 661.8 | 1.51 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 441.2 | 2.27 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 294.1 | 3.4 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 330.9 | 3.02 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 220.6 | 4.53 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 147.1 | 6.8 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165.4 | 6.04 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.3 | 9.07 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.5 | 13.6 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.1 | 18.13 |
Half time 68 BPM · double time 272 BPM. Every row is one beat (441.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Master TeacherErykah BaduC♯ minor136BPM
- UnchainedVan HalenC♯ minor136BPM
- Sabbath Bloody SabbathBlack SabbathC♯ minor137BPM
- You and Whose Army?RadioheadC♯ minor137BPM
- Bigmouth Strikes AgainThe SmithsC♯ minor135BPM
- FaintLinkin ParkC♯ minor135BPM
- Lord of This WorldBlack SabbathC♯ minor135BPM
- Face to Face (Cosmo Vitelli remix)Daft PunkC♯ minor135BPM
- Moments in LoveArt of NoiseC♯ minor138BPM
- Eight Easy StepsAlanis MorissetteC♯ minor138BPM
Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 136 BPMC♯ minor at 130–139 BPMNirvana
MusicBrainz collapses 398 recording ids into this one. Recording id d5f62930-70dd-440d-a09c-7f0ff3a88376.