Radiohead · Pablo Honey
Ripcord
Ripcord is in D major at 137.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
138 BPM · Allegromedian of 130 analyses · 137.3–137.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 130people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 436.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 448.7Hz · +34 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.7dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.948Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.957Essentia'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
130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 137.5 BPM one beat lasts 436.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 109.1 ms and a dotted eighth 327.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 275. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 448.7 Hz, which is 34 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 2.7 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 0.948 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 138 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1745.5 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 872.7 | 1.15 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 654.5 | 1.53 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 436.4 | 2.29 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 290.9 | 3.44 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 327.3 | 3.06 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 218.2 | 4.58 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 145.5 | 6.88 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 163.6 | 6.11 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 109.1 | 9.17 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 72.7 | 13.75 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 54.5 | 18.33 |
Half time 68.8 BPM · double time 275 BPM. Every row is one beat (436.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- This FireFranz FerdinandD major138BPM
- Thank You GirlThe BeatlesD major138BPM
- Mamma MiaABBAD major137BPM
- Mixed EmotionsThe Rolling StonesD major137BPM
- Extraordinary GirlGreen DayD major138BPM
- Almost Cut My HairCrosby, Stills, Nash & YoungD major137BPM
- LeningradBilly JoelD major139BPM
- Raise Your HandsBon JoviD major136BPM
- SparksThe WhoD major136BPM
- Summer of ’69Bryan AdamsD major139BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 138 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 138 BPMD major at 130–139 BPMRadiohead
MusicBrainz collapses 36 recording ids into this one. Recording id b20fd3d0-1ec5-40ed-93cd-5f82fd3727a6.