Red Hot Chili Peppers · Mother’s Milk
Knock Me Down
Knock Me Down is in A minor at 124.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
124 BPM · Allegromedian of 210 analyses · 124.1–124.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 210people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 483.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.24dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.953Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.313Essentia'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
210 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 210 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 124.1 BPM one beat lasts 483.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120.9 ms and a dotted eighth 362.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 248.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 3.24 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 0.953 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 124 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1933.9 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 967 | 1.03 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 725.2 | 1.38 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 483.5 | 2.07 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 322.3 | 3.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 362.6 | 2.76 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 241.7 | 4.14 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 161.2 | 6.21 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 181.3 | 5.52 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 120.9 | 8.27 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 80.6 | 12.41 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60.4 | 16.55 |
Half time 62.1 BPM · double time 248.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (483.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- CrescendollsDaft PunkA minor124BPM
- Rhythm Is a Dancer (original 12″)Snap!A minor124BPM
- HelloLionel RichieA minor124BPM
- Other SideRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor124BPM
- One KissCalvin Harris & Dua LipaA minor124BPM
- Behind Blue EyesThe WhoA minor124BPM
- After AllDavid BowieA minor124BPM
- EasilyRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor124BPM
- FleshAerosmithA minor124BPM
- Magic TouchAerosmithA minor124BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 124 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 124 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 30 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6932275d-4446-4e84-9176-fd1f19cf2d72.