Red Hot Chili Peppers · By the Way
Cabron
Cabron is in B minor at 112.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
113 BPM · Moderatomedian of 130 analyses · 112.6–113.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 130people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 532.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.54dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.889Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.984Essentia'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 — 95% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 112.7 BPM one beat lasts 532.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.1 ms and a dotted eighth 399.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 225.4. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 3.54 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 0.889 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 B 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 B minor
Each of these differs from B 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 113 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2129.5 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1064.8 | 0.94 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 798.6 | 1.25 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 532.4 | 1.88 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 354.9 | 2.82 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 399.3 | 2.5 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 266.2 | 3.76 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 177.5 | 5.64 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 199.6 | 5.01 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 133.1 | 7.51 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 88.7 | 11.27 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 66.5 | 15.03 |
Half time 56.4 BPM · double time 225.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (532.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Immigrant SongLed ZeppelinB minor113BPM
- Penny LaneThe BeatlesB minor113BPM
- Is It My BodyAlice CooperB minor114BPM
- Know YourselfDrakeB minor115BPM
- No Ordinary LoveSadeB minor111BPM
- The PowerSnap!B minor109BPM
- Tuff EnuffThe Fabulous ThunderbirdsB minor117BPM
- The Hardest PartBlondieB minor117BPM
- Love Is All We NeedCéline DionB minor108BPM
- StarshineGorillazB minor108BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 113 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 113 BPMB minor at 110–119 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8b81b805-f971-40ae-b6a2-77de7d884fd4.