TempoPeek

Rammstein · Herzeleid

Asche zu Asche

Asche zu Asche is in A minor at 172.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

172 BPM · Vivacemedian of 145 analyses · 172.3–172.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
145people who ran the extractor
One beat
348.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.54dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.969Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.303Essentia'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

145 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 145 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 172.3 BPM one beat lasts 348.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 87.1 ms and a dotted eighth 261.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 86.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 344.6. A score would mark that Vivace, 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 2.54 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 0.969 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 172 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41392.90.72
Half note2696.51.44
Dotted quarter1.5522.31.91
Quarter note (one beat)1348.22.87
Quarter triplet0.667232.24.31
Dotted eighth0.75261.23.83
Eighth note0.5174.15.74
Eighth triplet0.333116.18.62
Dotted sixteenth0.375130.67.66
Sixteenth note0.2587.111.49
Sixteenth triplet0.1675817.23
Thirty-second note0.12543.522.97

Half time 86.2 BPM · double time 344.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (348.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The PretenderFoo FightersA minor172BPM
  2. Subterranean Homesick BluesBob DylanA minor172BPM
  3. Hey MamaDavid Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha & AfrojackA minor172BPM
  4. MurmulloBuena Vista Social ClubA minor172BPM
  5. The Way I AmEminemA minor172BPM
  6. El carreteroBuena Vista Social ClubA minor172BPM
  7. Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live)David BowieA minor172BPM
  8. StinkfistToolA minor172BPM
  9. Buckets of RainBob DylanA minor172BPM
  10. Indy KidzCage the ElephantA minor172BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 172 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 172 BPMA minor at 170–179 BPMRammstein

MusicBrainz collapses 25 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8cb328c7-82a8-4e20-9f7e-8af70006eea4.