Cream · Wheels of Fire

Crossroads

Crossroads is in A minor at 126.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

126 BPM · Allegromedian of 166 analyses · 112.9–143 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
39%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
166people who ran the extractor
One beat
475.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.68dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.893Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.179Essentia'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

166 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 39% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 166 readings; 16% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 112.9 to 143 BPM. That is a recording the detector cannot settle on — the readings are spread far enough that the median is a summary of a disagreement rather than a measurement anybody should trust to the decimal.

At 126.2 BPM one beat lasts 475.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 118.9 ms and a dotted eighth 356.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 252.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 cents above 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 2.68 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 0.893 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 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 126 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41901.70.53
Half note2950.91.05
Dotted quarter1.5713.21.4
Quarter note (one beat)1475.42.1
Quarter triplet0.6673173.16
Dotted eighth0.75356.62.8
Eighth note0.5237.74.21
Eighth triplet0.333158.56.31
Dotted sixteenth0.375178.35.61
Sixteenth note0.25118.98.41
Sixteenth triplet0.16779.212.62
Thirty-second note0.12559.416.83

Half time 63.1 BPM · double time 252.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (475.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. CrossroadsEric ClaptonD major116BPM

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. Around the World / Harder Better Faster StrongerDaft PunkA minor126BPM
  2. Fade to BlackMetallicaA minor126BPM
  3. The Sun Always Shines on T.V.a‐haA minor126BPM
  4. When I Get HomeThe BeatlesA minor126BPM
  5. Hey Everybody!5 Seconds of SummerA minor126BPM
  6. I CryFlo RidaA minor126BPM
  7. Pictures of LilyThe WhoA minor127BPM
  8. And She WasTalking HeadsA minor127BPM
  9. Crime of the CenturySupertrampA minor126BPM
  10. GuajiraSantanaA minor127BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 126 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMCream

MusicBrainz collapses 53 recording ids into this one. Recording id aaff3261-42f7-48dd-be03-86d2e4a116c3.