TempoPeek

Dire Straits · Brothers in Arms

So Far Away

So Far Away is in E major at 114.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

115 BPM · Moderatomedian of 209 analyses · 114.5–114.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
209people who ran the extractor
One beat
524milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.68dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.899Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.264Essentia'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

209 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 209 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 114.5 BPM one beat lasts 524 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 131 ms and a dotted eighth 393 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 229. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 3.68 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 0.899 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 115 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42096.10.48
Half note210480.95
Dotted quarter1.57861.27
Quarter note (one beat)15241.91
Quarter triplet0.667349.32.86
Dotted eighth0.753932.54
Eighth note0.52623.82
Eighth triplet0.333174.75.73
Dotted sixteenth0.375196.55.09
Sixteenth note0.251317.63
Sixteenth triplet0.16787.311.45
Thirty-second note0.12565.515.27

Half time 57.3 BPM · double time 229 BPM. Every row is one beat (524 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. So Far AwayCarole KingG major144BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Train Leaves Here This MorningEaglesE major115BPM
  2. Heart of GlassBlondieE major115BPM
  3. White MustangLana Del ReyE major115BPM
  4. Burnin’ AliveAC/DCE major114BPM
  5. Sea of SimulationDaft PunkE major114BPM
  6. Radio MothMeat PuppetsE major114BPM
  7. VoleCéline DionE major114BPM
  8. Inside Your MindThe 1975E major114BPM
  9. High and DryThe Rolling StonesE major114BPM
  10. New SensationINXSE major116BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 115 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 115 BPME major at 110–119 BPMDire Straits

MusicBrainz collapses 31 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0854f0dc-fde5-4272-9ab7-a7be136f4449.