TempoPeek

Smashing Pumpkins · Siamese Dream

Cherub Rock

Cherub Rock is in A minor at 87.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

88 BPM · Andantemedian of 207 analyses · 87.3–87.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
91%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
207people who ran the extractor
One beat
683.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.34dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.967Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.328Essentia'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

207 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 207 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 87.8 BPM one beat lasts 683.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 170.8 ms and a dotted eighth 512.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 175.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 2.34 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 0.967 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 88 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42733.50.37
Half note21366.70.73
Dotted quarter1.51025.10.98
Quarter note (one beat)1683.41.46
Quarter triplet0.667455.62.2
Dotted eighth0.75512.51.95
Eighth note0.5341.72.93
Eighth triplet0.333227.84.39
Dotted sixteenth0.375256.33.9
Sixteenth note0.25170.85.85
Sixteenth triplet0.167113.98.78
Thirty-second note0.12585.411.71

Half time 43.9 BPM · double time 175.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (683.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Some Unholy WarAmy WinehouseA minor88BPM
  2. SecretMaroon 5A minor88BPM
  3. Wet DreamzJ. ColeA minor88BPM
  4. Deep in the HoleAC/DCA minor87BPM
  5. RightDavid BowieA minor87BPM
  6. Dancing With MyselfBilly IdolA minor88BPM
  7. Rock Me AmadeusFalcoA minor88BPM
  8. Poor Lil Rich50 CentA minor89BPM
  9. Girl With One EyeFlorence + the MachineA minor89BPM
  10. Now I Wanna Sniff Some GlueRamonesA minor89BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 88 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 88 BPMA minor at 80–89 BPMSmashing Pumpkins

MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 40a1bdab-d6cc-4116-8cdb-736979854503.