AC/DC · Ballbreaker

Burnin’ Alive

Burnin’ Alive is in E major at 114.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

114 BPM · Moderatomedian of 140 analyses · 114.2–114.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
140people who ran the extractor
One beat
525.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.07dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.779Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.281Essentia'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

140 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 140 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 114.2 BPM one beat lasts 525.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 131.3 ms and a dotted eighth 394 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 228.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 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 3.07 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 0.779 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 114 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42101.60.48
Half note21050.80.95
Dotted quarter1.5788.11.27
Quarter note (one beat)1525.41.9
Quarter triplet0.667350.32.86
Dotted eighth0.753942.54
Eighth note0.5262.73.81
Eighth triplet0.333175.15.71
Dotted sixteenth0.3751975.08
Sixteenth note0.25131.37.61
Sixteenth triplet0.16787.611.42
Thirty-second note0.12565.715.23

Half time 57.1 BPM · double time 228.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (525.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Sea of SimulationDaft PunkE major114BPM
  2. Radio MothMeat PuppetsE major114BPM
  3. VoleCéline DionE major114BPM
  4. Train Leaves Here This MorningEaglesE major115BPM
  5. So Far AwayDire StraitsE major115BPM
  6. Heart of GlassBlondieE major115BPM
  7. Inside Your MindThe 1975E major114BPM
  8. High and DryThe Rolling StonesE major114BPM
  9. White MustangLana Del ReyE major115BPM
  10. Half Light II (No Celebration)Arcade FireE major113BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 114 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 114 BPME major at 110–119 BPMAC/DC

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 39e05718-4b6c-4294-b234-fab97f41d3ec.