TempoPeek

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Shadow on the Sun

Shadow on the Sun is in E major at 139.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

140 BPM · Allegromedian of 129 analyses · 139.8–140 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
92%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
129people who ran the extractor
One beat
428.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.19dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.836Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.041Essentia'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. Most of them — 92% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 129 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 139.9 BPM one beat lasts 428.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 107.2 ms and a dotted eighth 321.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70 BPM, counted twice as fast 279.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 3.19 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 0.836 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 140 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41715.50.58
Half note2857.81.17
Dotted quarter1.5643.31.55
Quarter note (one beat)1428.92.33
Quarter triplet0.667285.93.5
Dotted eighth0.75321.73.11
Eighth note0.5214.44.66
Eighth triplet0.3331437
Dotted sixteenth0.375160.86.22
Sixteenth note0.25107.29.33
Sixteenth triplet0.16771.513.99
Thirty-second note0.12553.618.65

Half time 70 BPM · double time 279.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (428.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. MelissaThe Allman Brothers BandE major140BPM
  2. Para qué la vidaEnrique IglesiasE major140BPM
  3. If Not for YouBob DylanE major140BPM
  4. Ordinary WorldDuran DuranE major140BPM
  5. Drowned World/Substitute for LoveMadonnaE major140BPM
  6. Come AliveFoo FightersE major140BPM
  7. Matthew & SonCat StevensE major140BPM
  8. ShatteredThe Rolling StonesE major140BPM
  9. The Right ProfileThe ClashE major141BPM
  10. RioDuran DuranE major141BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 140 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 140 BPME major at 130–139 BPMAudioslave

MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0f258fe1-8e8a-49cb-9f42-6656f449ab68.