TempoPeek

Eric Clapton · 461 Ocean Boulevard

Give Me Strength

Give Me Strength is in A major at 137.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

137 BPM · Allegromedian of 155 analyses · 137.3–137.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
155people who ran the extractor
One beat
437milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.23dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.396Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.082Essentia'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

155 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 155 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 137.3 BPM one beat lasts 437 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 109.2 ms and a dotted eighth 327.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 274.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 5.23 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 0.396 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 137 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note417480.57
Half note28741.14
Dotted quarter1.5655.51.53
Quarter note (one beat)14372.29
Quarter triplet0.667291.33.43
Dotted eighth0.75327.73.05
Eighth note0.5218.54.58
Eighth triplet0.333145.76.87
Dotted sixteenth0.375163.96.1
Sixteenth note0.25109.29.15
Sixteenth triplet0.16772.813.73
Thirty-second note0.12554.618.31

Half time 68.7 BPM · double time 274.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (437 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. High VoltageAC/DCA major137BPM
  2. My Fist Your FaceAerosmithA major137BPM
  3. Crazy TrainOzzy OsbourneA major138BPM
  4. There Will Never Be Another TonightBryan AdamsA major137BPM
  5. I Can’t ExplainThe WhoA major138BPM
  6. PartyBostonA major138BPM
  7. Ring RingABBAA major137BPM
  8. Delia’s GoneJohnny CashA major137BPM
  9. Show BusinessAC/DCA major137BPM
  10. What IfColdplayA major137BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 137 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 137 BPMA major at 130–139 BPMEric Clapton

MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 49031f88-de92-4a19-8036-f94cb4c40f7b.