R.E.M. · Automatic for the People
Find the River
Find the River is in D major at 144.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
144 BPM · Allegromedian of 179 analyses · 144.1–144.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 179people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 416.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.76dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.76Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.933Essentia'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
179 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 179 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 144.2 BPM one beat lasts 416.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104 ms and a dotted eighth 312.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 288.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.76 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 0.76 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 144 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1664.4 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 832.2 | 1.2 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 624.1 | 1.6 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 416.1 | 2.4 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 277.4 | 3.6 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 312.1 | 3.2 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 208 | 4.81 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 138.7 | 7.21 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 156 | 6.41 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 104 | 9.61 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69.3 | 14.42 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52 | 19.23 |
Half time 72.1 BPM · double time 288.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (416.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- But I Might Die TonightCat StevensD major144BPM
- A Groovy Kind of LovePhil CollinsD major144BPM
- Mint CarThe CureD major144BPM
- Hero WorshipThe B‐52sD major145BPM
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- Shine OnJetD major145BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 144 BPMD major at 140–149 BPMR.E.M.
MusicBrainz collapses 19 recording ids into this one. Recording id c6b633b9-5d94-426a-aad1-1b3954e2be75.