TempoPeek

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young · Ohio

Find the Cost of Freedom

Find the Cost of Freedom is in E major at 153.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

154 BPM · Allegromedian of 137 analyses · 151.6–155.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
45%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
137people who ran the extractor
One beat
390.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
446.7Hz · +26 cents from A 440
Dynamics
10dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.005Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.832Essentia'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

137 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 45% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 137 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 151.6 to 155.6 BPM.

At 153.6 BPM one beat lasts 390.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97.7 ms and a dotted eighth 293 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 307.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 446.7 Hz, which is 26 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 10 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 0.005 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 154 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41562.50.64
Half note2781.31.28
Dotted quarter1.5585.91.71
Quarter note (one beat)1390.62.56
Quarter triplet0.667260.43.84
Dotted eighth0.752933.41
Eighth note0.5195.35.12
Eighth triplet0.333130.27.68
Dotted sixteenth0.375146.56.83
Sixteenth note0.2597.710.24
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.115.36
Thirty-second note0.12548.820.48

Half time 76.8 BPM · double time 307.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (390.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Three O’Clock BluesB.B. King & Eric ClaptonE major154BPM
  2. Mama KinAerosmithE major153BPM
  3. Combination of the TwoBig Brother & the Holding CompanyE major153BPM
  4. BombtrackRage Against the MachineE major153BPM
  5. Let It BeAretha FranklinE major155BPM
  6. X OffenderBlondieE major155BPM
  7. Don't Let Me DownThe BeatlesE major153BPM
  8. Stand BackThe Allman Brothers BandE major152BPM
  9. That’s All LiesJetE major152BPM
  10. The TwistChubby CheckerE major155BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 154 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 154 BPME major at 150–159 BPMCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young

MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id 40134d1e-d7c9-4c2c-93f9-e9b6507934b6.