The Red Hot Chili Peppers · The Red Hot Chili Peppers
You Always Sing the Same
You Always Sing the Same is in E minor at 100.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
101 BPM · Andantemedian of 137 analyses · 100–155.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 30%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 137people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 595.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 8.84dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.915Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.799Essentia'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
137 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 30% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 137 readings; 58% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 100 to 155.1 BPM.
At 100.7 BPM one beat lasts 595.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 149 ms and a dotted eighth 446.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 201.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 cents below 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 8.84 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 0.915 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 | 2383.3 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1191.7 | 0.84 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 893.7 | 1.12 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 595.8 | 1.68 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 397.2 | 2.52 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 446.9 | 2.24 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 297.9 | 3.36 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 198.6 | 5.04 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 223.4 | 4.48 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 149 | 6.71 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 99.3 | 10.07 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 74.5 | 13.43 |
Half time 50.4 BPM · double time 201.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (595.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- ParabolaToolE minor101BPM
- FeelsCalvin Harris feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big SeanE minor101BPM
- The Razors EdgeAC/DCE minor101BPM
- Mean Mr. MustardThe BeatlesE minor100BPM
- Keep TalkingPink FloydE minor100BPM
- Road Trippin’Red Hot Chili PeppersE minor101BPM
- Take Me to the RiverTalking HeadsE minor100BPM
- Drumming SongFlorence + the MachineE minor100BPM
- Mother’s Little HelperThe Rolling StonesE minor101BPM
- Fell on Black DaysSoundgardenE minor101BPM
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 BPMThe Red Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 5ffdf161-a2de-4579-bbe3-a01671fef83e.