Red Hot Chili Peppers · Stadium Arcadium

Torture Me

Torture Me is in B flat minor at 172.3 beats per minute.

Tempo

172 BPM · Vivacemedian of 152 analyses · 90.3–172.3 across the middle eight tenths

Key: B♭ minor5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 76%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 152people who ran the extractor
One beat: 348.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 2.97dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.905Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.069Essentia'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

152 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 76% — put it in B flat minor, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 152 readings; 72% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 90.3 to 172.3 BPM.

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 440.3 Hz, which is 1 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.97 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 0.905 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 flat 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 172 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1392.9	0.72
Half note	2	696.5	1.44
Dotted quarter	1.5	522.3	1.91
Quarter note (one beat)	1	348.2	2.87
Quarter triplet	0.667	232.2	4.31
Dotted eighth	0.75	261.2	3.83
Eighth note	0.5	174.1	5.74
Eighth triplet	0.333	116.1	8.62
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	130.6	7.66
Sixteenth note	0.25	87.1	11.49
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	58	17.23
Thirty-second note	0.125	43.5	22.97

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

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

All songs in B flat minor All songs at 172 BPM Red Hot Chili Peppers

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id d5b853f7-8276-4a18-aeeb-7c77ad280613.