Cheap Trick · Lap of Luxury
The Flame
The Flame is in E major at 97.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
97 BPM · Andantemedian of 138 analyses · 97–110.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 90%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 138people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 617.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.1dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.836Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.058Essentia'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
138 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 138 readings; 90% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 97 to 110.1 BPM.
At 97.1 BPM one beat lasts 617.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 154.5 ms and a dotted eighth 463.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 194.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 4.1 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 0.836 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 97 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2471.7 | 0.4 |
| Half note | 2 | 1235.8 | 0.81 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 926.9 | 1.08 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 617.9 | 1.62 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 411.9 | 2.43 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 463.4 | 2.16 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 309 | 3.24 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 206 | 4.85 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 231.7 | 4.32 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 154.5 | 6.47 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 103 | 9.71 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 77.2 | 12.95 |
Half time 48.6 BPM · double time 194.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (617.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- South SideMobyE major97BPM
- Hey, Soul SisterTrainE major97BPM
- Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)Bee GeesE major97BPM
- Rap SongBlack Eyed Peas fea. WyclefE major98BPM
- 19th Nervous BreakdownThe Rolling StonesE major96BPM
- The LanternThe Rolling StonesE major98BPM
- Man Out of TimeElvis Costello & The AttractionsE major98BPM
- Song for the ManBeastie BoysE major98BPM
- Rehumanize YourselfThe PoliceE major99BPM
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man (overdubbed)Buddy Holly overdubbed by The FireballsE major95BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 97 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 97 BPME major at 90–99 BPMCheap Trick
MusicBrainz collapses 89 recording ids into this one. Recording id a723a2b5-30b9-42be-80c7-714d85715b22.