Eric Clapton · Complete Unplugged
Alberta
Alberta is in C major at 85.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
85 BPM · Andantemedian of 141 analyses · 85.3–85.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 141people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 702.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.25dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.893Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.29Essentia'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
141 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 141 readings; 90% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 85.4 BPM one beat lasts 702.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 175.6 ms and a dotted eighth 526.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 170.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 3.25 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 85 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2810.3 | 0.36 |
| Half note | 2 | 1405.2 | 0.71 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1053.9 | 0.95 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 702.6 | 1.42 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 468.4 | 2.14 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 526.9 | 1.9 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 351.3 | 2.85 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 234.2 | 4.27 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 263.5 | 3.8 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 175.6 | 5.69 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 117.1 | 8.54 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 87.8 | 11.39 |
Half time 42.7 BPM · double time 170.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (702.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- JulietNeil DiamondC major85BPM
- Money MadeAC/DCC major86BPM
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- Interlude (That’s Love)Chance the RapperC major86BPM
- Terminal FrostPink FloydC major86BPM
- A Great Day for FreedomPink FloydC major84BPM
- EmotionDestiny’s ChildC major87BPM
- Apprends‐moiCéline DionC major87BPM
- All My LifeFoo FightersC major84BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 85 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 85 BPMC major at 80–89 BPMEric Clapton
MusicBrainz collapses 22 recording ids into this one. Recording id 491ffbea-db4a-40bc-82af-e0eb408ee326.