Eric Clapton · Complete Unplugged
Lonely Stranger
Lonely Stranger is in E major at 150.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
151 BPM · Allegromedian of 132 analyses · 150.7–150.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 132people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 398.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.87dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.731Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.203Essentia'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
132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 150.7 BPM one beat lasts 398.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 99.5 ms and a dotted eighth 298.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 301.4. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.87 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 0.731 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 151 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1592.6 | 0.63 |
| Half note | 2 | 796.3 | 1.26 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 597.2 | 1.67 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 398.1 | 2.51 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 265.4 | 3.77 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 298.6 | 3.35 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 199.1 | 5.02 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 132.7 | 7.54 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 149.3 | 6.7 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 99.5 | 10.05 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 66.4 | 15.07 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.8 | 20.09 |
Half time 75.4 BPM · double time 301.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (398.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Welcome to the Working WeekElvis CostelloE major150BPM
- AngelsRobbie WilliamsE major150BPM
- Tube Snake BoogieZZ TopE major151BPM
- Let Me Down SlowlyAlec BenjaminE major150BPM
- Sentimental LadyFleetwood MacE major150BPM
- (Don’t Go Back to) RockvilleR.E.M.E major151BPM
- “The Take Over, the Breaks Over”Fall Out BoyE major150BPM
- Little ChildThe BeatlesE major152BPM
- BushfireThe B‐52sE major152BPM
- Got My Mind Set on YouGeorge HarrisonE major149BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 151 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 151 BPME major at 150–159 BPMEric Clapton
MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 36554ab3-cf24-4f6c-a1f6-01a8b2fb2d19.