TempoPeek

The Notorious B.I.G. · Ready to Die

Warning

Warning is in D minor at 85.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

86 BPM · Andantemedian of 144 analyses · 85.9–86 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
59%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
144people who ran the extractor
One beat
698.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.2dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.847Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.456Essentia'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

144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 59% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 85.9 BPM one beat lasts 698.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 174.6 ms and a dotted eighth 523.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43 BPM, counted twice as fast 171.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 6.2 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 0.847 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 D 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 D minor

Each of these differs from D 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 86 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42793.90.36
Half note213970.72
Dotted quarter1.51047.70.95
Quarter note (one beat)1698.51.43
Quarter triplet0.667465.72.15
Dotted eighth0.75523.91.91
Eighth note0.5349.22.86
Eighth triplet0.333232.84.3
Dotted sixteenth0.375261.93.82
Sixteenth note0.25174.65.73
Sixteenth triplet0.167116.48.59
Thirty-second note0.12587.311.45

Half time 43 BPM · double time 171.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (698.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. WarningGreen DayD major121BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. DramaErykah BaduD minor86BPM
  2. PipelineThe Alan Parsons ProjectD minor86BPM
  3. So What’cha WantBeastie BoysD minor85BPM
  4. LoserBeckD minor85BPM
  5. Can’t Stop Rock ’n’ RollAC/DCD minor85BPM
  6. KarmaAlicia KeysD minor85BPM
  7. I Knew I Loved YouSavage GardenD minor85BPM
  8. She’s on FireAerosmithD minor87BPM
  9. One of My TurnsPink FloydD minor88BPM
  10. Mein TeilRammsteinD minor88BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 86 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 86 BPMD minor at 80–89 BPMThe Notorious B.I.G.

MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id c08b8fd6-9149-48fd-a64d-0e24aba959ff.