Florence + the Machine · How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Long & Lost
Long & Lost is in C minor at 82.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
83 BPM · Andantemedian of 131 analyses · 82.3–82.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 81%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 131people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 727.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.2Hz · -7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 7.51dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.156Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.027Essentia'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
131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 81% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 82.5 BPM one beat lasts 727.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 181.8 ms and a dotted eighth 545.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 41.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 165. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.2 Hz, which is 7 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 7.51 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 0.156 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 C minor; 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 C minor
Each of these differs from C minor 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 83 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2909.1 | 0.34 |
| Half note | 2 | 1454.5 | 0.69 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1090.9 | 0.92 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 727.3 | 1.38 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 484.8 | 2.06 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 545.5 | 1.83 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 363.6 | 2.75 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 242.4 | 4.13 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 272.7 | 3.67 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 181.8 | 5.5 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 121.2 | 8.25 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 90.9 | 11 |
Half time 41.3 BPM · double time 165 BPM. Every row is one beat (727.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Spend Some TimeEminem feat. Obie Trice, Stat Quo & 50 CentC minor84BPM
- SolarMiles Davis All StarsC minor84BPM
- Le BalletCéline DionC minor84BPM
- Don’t Lose My NumberPhil CollinsC minor81BPM
- DimensionScannerC minor85BPM
- Ground on DownBen HarperC minor85BPM
- Bitches & SistersJay‐ZC minor87BPM
- You and Your FriendDire StraitsC minor87BPM
- Yo (Excuse Me Miss)Chris BrownC minor88BPM
- Electric CityThe Black Eyed PeasC minor89BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 83 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 83 BPMC minor at 80–89 BPMFlorence + the Machine
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 6703c593-0dc8-46da-b4bc-9df99cea85f4.