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Buddy Holly overdubbed by The Fireballs · Brown-Eyed Handsome Man / Wishing

Brown Eyed Handsome Man (overdubbed)

Brown Eyed Handsome Man (overdubbed) is in E major at 95.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

95 BPM · Andantemedian of 170 analyses · 88.1–95.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
61%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
170people who ran the extractor
One beat
628.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.2Hz · -7 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.32dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.885Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.196Essentia'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

170 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 61% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 170 readings; 78% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 88.1 to 95.9 BPM.

At 95.4 BPM one beat lasts 628.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 157.2 ms and a dotted eighth 471.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 190.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.2 Hz, which is 7 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 3.32 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 0.885 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 95 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42515.70.4
Half note21257.90.8
Dotted quarter1.5943.41.06
Quarter note (one beat)1628.91.59
Quarter triplet0.667419.32.39
Dotted eighth0.75471.72.12
Eighth note0.5314.53.18
Eighth triplet0.333209.64.77
Dotted sixteenth0.375235.84.24
Sixteenth note0.25157.26.36
Sixteenth triplet0.167104.89.54
Thirty-second note0.12578.612.72

Half time 47.7 BPM · double time 190.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (628.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Wake UpAlanis MorissetteE major95BPM
  2. I Love Rock ’n’ RollJoan Jett & the BlackheartsE major95BPM
  3. Ms. JacksonOutKastE major95BPM
  4. Flesh for FantasyBilly IdolE major95BPM
  5. Whiskey on the RocksAC/DCE major95BPM
  6. 19th Nervous BreakdownThe Rolling StonesE major96BPM
  7. Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)…Jay‐ZE major94BPM
  8. Gift From VirgoBeyoncéE major94BPM
  9. From TimeDrake feat. Jhené AikoE major94BPM
  10. Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)Lady GagaE major94BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 95 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 95 BPME major at 90–99 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 37ae1ae6-8913-4735-a598-ca096eb808eb.