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Radiohead · The Bends

High and Dry

High and Dry is in A major at 88.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

88 BPM · Andantemedian of 155 analyses · 88.3–88.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
92%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
155people who ran the extractor
One beat
679.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.93dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.942Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.964Essentia'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. Most of them — 92% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 155 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 88.3 BPM one beat lasts 679.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 169.9 ms and a dotted eighth 509.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 176.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.93 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 0.942 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 88 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note427180.37
Half note213590.74
Dotted quarter1.51019.30.98
Quarter note (one beat)1679.51.47
Quarter triplet0.6674532.21
Dotted eighth0.75509.61.96
Eighth note0.5339.82.94
Eighth triplet0.333226.54.42
Dotted sixteenth0.375254.83.92
Sixteenth note0.25169.95.89
Sixteenth triplet0.167113.38.83
Thirty-second note0.12584.911.77

Half time 44.2 BPM · double time 176.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (679.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. High and DryThe Rolling StonesE major114BPM

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. Steady UprisingApparatA major88BPM
  2. AlisonElvis CostelloA major88BPM
  3. I Feel FreeCreamA major89BPM
  4. Red, Red WineNeil DiamondA major89BPM
  5. My Last BreathEvanescenceA major88BPM
  6. HurricanesDidoA major88BPM
  7. HoneyErykah BaduA major88BPM
  8. She Looks to MeRed Hot Chili PeppersA major88BPM
  9. God Bless America — And All the Beautiful Women in ItLana Del ReyA major88BPM
  10. ManeaterDaryl Hall & John OatesA major89BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 88 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 88 BPMA major at 80–89 BPMRadiohead

MusicBrainz collapses 66 recording ids into this one. Recording id 83cf16bc-01db-4766-9e3e-f3c796639cf2.