TempoPeek

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young · 4 Way Street

Pre‐Road Downs

Pre‐Road Downs is in A major at 135.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

135 BPM · Allegromedian of 127 analyses · 129–135.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
127people who ran the extractor
One beat
443.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
436.7Hz · -13 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.64dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.883Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.077Essentia'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

127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 63% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 129 to 135.4 BPM.

At 135.4 BPM one beat lasts 443.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.8 ms and a dotted eighth 332.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 270.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436.7 Hz, which is 13 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 3.64 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 0.883 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 A 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 135 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41772.50.56
Half note2886.31.13
Dotted quarter1.5664.71.5
Quarter note (one beat)1443.12.26
Quarter triplet0.667295.43.39
Dotted eighth0.75332.33.01
Eighth note0.5221.64.51
Eighth triplet0.333147.76.77
Dotted sixteenth0.375166.26.02
Sixteenth note0.25110.89.03
Sixteenth triplet0.16773.913.54
Thirty-second note0.12555.418.05

Half time 67.7 BPM · double time 270.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (443.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. All the MadmenDavid BowieA major136BPM
  2. I’ll Feel a Whole Lot BetterThe ByrdsA major135BPM
  3. Everything’s Not Lost / Life Is for LivingColdplayA major136BPM
  4. Someone Like YouAdeleA major135BPM
  5. Rock Is DeadMarilyn MansonA major135BPM
  6. Never Say GoodbyeBon JoviA major136BPM
  7. Put the Finger on YouAC/DCA major135BPM
  8. Smack My Bitch UpProdigyA major136BPM
  9. It’s So EasyThe Crickets feat. Buddy HollyA major136BPM
  10. RadioactiveImagine DragonsA major136BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 135 BPMA major at 130–139 BPMCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young

MusicBrainz collapses 38 recording ids into this one. Recording id 812cd6b9-bf16-41f5-afaf-c860743c3e93.