TempoPeek

3 Doors Down · Away From the Sun

The Road I’m On

The Road I’m On is in C major at 88 beats per minute.

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Tempo

88 BPM · Andantemedian of 165 analyses · 87.9–88 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
62%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
165people who ran the extractor
One beat
681.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.78dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.928Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.906Essentia'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

165 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 62% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 165 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 88 BPM one beat lasts 681.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 170.5 ms and a dotted eighth 511.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44 BPM, counted twice as fast 176. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 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 3.78 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 0.928 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 C major; 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 C major

Each of these differs from C major 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 note42727.30.37
Half note21363.60.73
Dotted quarter1.51022.70.98
Quarter note (one beat)1681.81.47
Quarter triplet0.667454.52.2
Dotted eighth0.75511.41.96
Eighth note0.5340.92.93
Eighth triplet0.333227.34.4
Dotted sixteenth0.375255.73.91
Sixteenth note0.25170.55.87
Sixteenth triplet0.167113.68.8
Thirty-second note0.12585.211.73

Half time 44 BPM · double time 176 BPM. Every row is one beat (681.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. All I NeedRadioheadC major88BPM
  2. Coming Back to LifePink FloydC major88BPM
  3. The Doo‐Bop SongMiles DavisC major88BPM
  4. Sheena Is a Punk RockerRamonesC major88BPM
  5. No FreedomDidoC major88BPM
  6. LA CANCIÓNJ Balvin & Bad BunnyC major88BPM
  7. Walkin’ BluesEric ClaptonC major88BPM
  8. The Mercy SeatJohnny CashC major88BPM
  9. Why Can’t This Be LoveVan HalenC major89BPM
  10. She’s Got Her TicketTracy ChapmanC major87BPM

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

All songs in C majorAll songs at 88 BPMC major at 80–89 BPM3 Doors Down

MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id a8985db8-0872-48f8-81f8-3957d2de7eaa.