Cream · Disraeli Gears
Sunshine of Your Love
Sunshine of Your Love is in D minor at 115.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
115 BPM · Moderatomedian of 924 analyses · 109.2–117.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 38%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 924people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 520.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 445.9Hz · +23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.13dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.846Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.156Essentia'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
924 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 38% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 924 readings; 66% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 109.2 to 117.5 BPM.
At 115.3 BPM one beat lasts 520.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 130.1 ms and a dotted eighth 390.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 230.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.9 Hz, which is 23 cents above 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 3.13 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 0.846 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 D 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 D minor
Each of these differs from D 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 115 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2081.5 | 0.48 |
| Half note | 2 | 1040.8 | 0.96 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 780.6 | 1.28 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 520.4 | 1.92 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 346.9 | 2.88 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 390.3 | 2.56 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 260.2 | 3.84 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 173.5 | 5.77 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 195.1 | 5.12 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 130.1 | 7.69 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 86.7 | 11.53 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 65 | 15.37 |
Half time 57.7 BPM · double time 230.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (520.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The RobotsKraftwerkD minor115BPM
- I’ll WaitVan HalenD minor115BPM
- It’s Gotta Be YouBackstreet BoysD minor116BPM
- I’m Going Slightly MadQueenD minor116BPM
- Treading PaperThriceD minor115BPM
- MotownphillyBoyz II MenD minor115BPM
- InterruptApparatD minor115BPM
- World TurningFleetwood MacD minor116BPM
- Toes Across the FloorBlind MelonD minor114BPM
- OncePearl JamD minor114BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 115 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 115 BPMD minor at 110–119 BPMCream
MusicBrainz collapses 93 recording ids into this one. Recording id 49af3ae2-a738-4e2c-8801-f607098b380b.