Crosby, Stills & Nash · Daylight Again
Wasted on the Way
Wasted on the Way is in D major at 153.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
154 BPM · Allegromedian of 193 analyses · 153.3–153.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 193people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 390.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.5Hz · -10 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.76dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.719Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.14Essentia'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
193 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 193 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 153.5 BPM one beat lasts 390.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97.7 ms and a dotted eighth 293.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 307. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.5 Hz, which is 10 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 3.76 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 0.719 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 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 154 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1563.5 | 0.64 |
| Half note | 2 | 781.8 | 1.28 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 586.3 | 1.71 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 390.9 | 2.56 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 260.6 | 3.84 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 293.2 | 3.41 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 195.4 | 5.12 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 130.3 | 7.68 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 146.6 | 6.82 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 97.7 | 10.23 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 65.1 | 15.35 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 48.9 | 20.47 |
Half time 76.8 BPM · double time 307 BPM. Every row is one beat (390.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Let Me Take You Home TonightBostonD major154BPM
- So You Want to Be a Rock ’n’ Roll StarThe ByrdsD major153BPM
- HellFoo FightersD major153BPM
- Strong EnoughSheryl CrowD major154BPM
- Tell Me WhyThe BeatlesD major155BPM
- The ScarecrowPink FloydD major155BPM
- Lucky ManEmerson, Lake & PalmerD major155BPM
- Going to CaliforniaLed ZeppelinD major155BPM
- Sweetness FollowsR.E.M.D major152BPM
- Ship of FoolsThe DoorsD major155BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 154 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 154 BPMD major at 150–159 BPMCrosby, Stills & Nash
MusicBrainz collapses 16 recording ids into this one. Recording id f2fe52ac-93d6-4588-9909-ce5c85a538bf.