Cheap Trick · Heaven Tonight

Surrender

Surrender is in E minor at 134 beats per minute.

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Tempo

134 BPM · Allegromedian of 384 analyses · 133.9–134.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
384people who ran the extractor
One beat
447.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.45dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.925Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.227Essentia'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

384 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 384 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 134 BPM one beat lasts 447.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.9 ms and a dotted eighth 335.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67 BPM, counted twice as fast 268. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 2.45 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 0.925 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 134 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note417910.56
Half note2895.51.12
Dotted quarter1.5671.61.49
Quarter note (one beat)1447.82.23
Quarter triplet0.667298.53.35
Dotted eighth0.75335.82.98
Eighth note0.5223.94.47
Eighth triplet0.333149.36.7
Dotted sixteenth0.375167.95.96
Sixteenth note0.25111.98.93
Sixteenth triplet0.16774.613.4
Thirty-second note0.1255617.87

Half time 67 BPM · double time 268 BPM. Every row is one beat (447.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. My Eyes Have Seen YouThe DoorsE minor135BPM
  2. Same Old Song and DanceAerosmithE minor133BPM
  3. Welcome to the MachinePink FloydE minor133BPM
  4. VolcanoU2E minor135BPM
  5. Live WireAC/DCE minor133BPM
  6. LuckyRadioheadE minor133BPM
  7. Pop StyleDrakeE minor133BPM
  8. VamosPixiesE minor133BPM
  9. About a GirlNirvanaE minor133BPM
  10. Déjà vuCrosby, Stills, Nash & YoungE minor136BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 134 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 134 BPME minor at 130–139 BPMCheap Trick

MusicBrainz collapses 59 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9f736312-90b7-4191-9552-05033eda711a.