Anberlin · New Surrender
Breaking
Breaking is in E major at 156.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
156 BPM · Vivacemedian of 129 analyses · 156.4–156.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 129people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 383.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.09dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.88Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1Essentia'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
129 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 129 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 156.4 BPM one beat lasts 383.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 95.9 ms and a dotted eighth 287.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 78.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 312.8. 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 3.09 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 0.88 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 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 156 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1534.5 | 0.65 |
| Half note | 2 | 767.3 | 1.3 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 575.4 | 1.74 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 383.6 | 2.61 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 255.8 | 3.91 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 287.7 | 3.48 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 191.8 | 5.21 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 127.9 | 7.82 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 143.9 | 6.95 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 95.9 | 10.43 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 63.9 | 15.64 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 48 | 20.85 |
Half time 78.2 BPM · double time 312.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (383.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Angels of the SilencesCounting CrowsE major157BPM
- Sunday MorningNo DoubtE major156BPM
- No ActionElvis CostelloE major156BPM
- Fade Into YouMazzy StarE major156BPM
- Remote ControlThe ClashE major156BPM
- NumbPortisheadE major156BPM
- Summertime BluesEddie CochranE major155BPM
- Born to RunFrankie Goes to HollywoodE major155BPM
- I Just Want to See His FaceThe Rolling StonesE major155BPM
- Beat on the BratRamonesE major155BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 156 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 156 BPME major at 150–159 BPMAnberlin
MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1c755dad-54b2-4837-994b-bae0e0007b18.