Red Hot Chili Peppers · Californication
Road Trippin’
Road Trippin’ is in E minor at 101.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
101 BPM · Andantemedian of 171 analyses · 100.9–135 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 171people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 592.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.7Hz · -5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.36dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.951Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.098Essentia'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
171 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 171 readings; 78% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 100.9 to 135 BPM.
At 101.3 BPM one beat lasts 592.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 148.1 ms and a dotted eighth 444.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 202.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.7 Hz, which is 5 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 2.36 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 0.951 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 E 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 E minor
Each of these differs from E 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 101 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2369.2 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1184.6 | 0.84 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 888.5 | 1.13 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 592.3 | 1.69 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 394.9 | 2.53 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 444.2 | 2.25 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 296.2 | 3.38 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 197.4 | 5.07 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 222.1 | 4.5 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 148.1 | 6.75 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 98.7 | 10.13 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 74 | 13.51 |
Half time 50.7 BPM · double time 202.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (592.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Mother’s Little HelperThe Rolling StonesE minor101BPM
- Fell on Black DaysSoundgardenE minor101BPM
- FeelsCalvin Harris feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big SeanE minor101BPM
- The Razors EdgeAC/DCE minor101BPM
- ParabolaToolE minor101BPM
- TourniquetEvanescenceE minor102BPM
- CriminalEminemE minor102BPM
- Peaches & Cream112E minor102BPM
- Mean Mr. MustardThe BeatlesE minor100BPM
- Keep TalkingPink FloydE minor100BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 101 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 101 BPME minor at 100–109 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id b8bc05b2-0bb3-46a1-b830-62187e7657e1.