Alec Benjamin · Let Me Down Slowly
Let Me Down Slowly
Let Me Down Slowly is in E major at 150.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
150 BPM · Allegromedian of 151 analyses · 150.2–150.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 75%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 151people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 399.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.85dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.872Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.134Essentia'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
151 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 75% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 151 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 150.2 BPM one beat lasts 399.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 99.9 ms and a dotted eighth 299.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 300.4. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.85 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 0.872 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 150 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1597.9 | 0.63 |
| Half note | 2 | 798.9 | 1.25 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 599.2 | 1.67 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 399.5 | 2.5 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 266.3 | 3.75 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 299.6 | 3.34 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 199.7 | 5.01 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 133.2 | 7.51 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 149.8 | 6.68 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 99.9 | 10.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 66.6 | 15.02 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.9 | 20.03 |
Half time 75.1 BPM · double time 300.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (399.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- AngelsRobbie WilliamsE major150BPM
- Sentimental LadyFleetwood MacE major150BPM
- Welcome to the Working WeekElvis CostelloE major150BPM
- “The Take Over, the Breaks Over”Fall Out BoyE major150BPM
- Lonely StrangerEric ClaptonE major151BPM
- Tube Snake BoogieZZ TopE major151BPM
- Got My Mind Set on YouGeorge HarrisonE major149BPM
- (Don’t Go Back to) RockvilleR.E.M.E major151BPM
- The Last SongFoo FightersE major149BPM
- Planet TelexRadioheadE major149BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 150 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 150 BPME major at 150–159 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5d95ebdd-dc7f-465b-b71c-9169fc56798f.