TempoPeek

Eagles · The Long Run

The Sad Café

The Sad Café is in B major at 102.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

102 BPM · Andantemedian of 249 analyses · 102–102.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
249people who ran the extractor
One beat
587.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438Hz · -8 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.38dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.519Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.173Essentia'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

249 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 249 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 102.1 BPM one beat lasts 587.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 146.9 ms and a dotted eighth 440.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 204.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438 Hz, which is 8 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 5.38 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 0.519 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 B 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 102 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42350.60.43
Half note21175.30.85
Dotted quarter1.5881.51.13
Quarter note (one beat)1587.71.7
Quarter triplet0.667391.82.55
Dotted eighth0.75440.72.27
Eighth note0.5293.83.4
Eighth triplet0.333195.95.11
Dotted sixteenth0.375220.44.54
Sixteenth note0.25146.96.81
Sixteenth triplet0.16797.910.21
Thirty-second note0.12573.513.61

Half time 51.1 BPM · double time 204.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (587.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Give Me One ReasonTracy ChapmanB major102BPM
  2. Hey BulldogThe BeatlesB major102BPM
  3. Solsbury HillPeter GabrielB major103BPM
  4. Walk Like an EgyptianBanglesB major103BPM
  5. Faaip de OiadToolB major101BPM
  6. A Taste of HoneyThe BeatlesB major101BPM
  7. Hoodoo / Voodoo Medicine ManAerosmithB major101BPM
  8. Hard to HandleThe Black CrowesB major104BPM
  9. Paradise CityGuns N’ RosesB major100BPM
  10. I Don’t Want to Live Without YouForeignerB major100BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 102 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 102 BPMB major at 100–109 BPMEagles

MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id a9a943ae-99fc-4791-91f5-d024e33916ea.