Eric Clapton · Slowhand
Wonderful Tonight
Wonderful Tonight is in G major at 95.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
95 BPM · Andantemedian of 304 analyses · 94.8–95.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 304people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 628.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.08dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.75Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.144Essentia'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
304 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 304 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 95.4 BPM one beat lasts 628.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 157.2 ms and a dotted eighth 471.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 190.8. 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 4.08 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 0.75 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 95 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2515.7 | 0.4 |
| Half note | 2 | 1257.9 | 0.8 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 943.4 | 1.06 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 628.9 | 1.59 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 419.3 | 2.39 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 471.7 | 2.12 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 314.5 | 3.18 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 209.6 | 4.77 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 235.8 | 4.24 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 157.2 | 6.36 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 104.8 | 9.54 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 78.6 | 12.72 |
Half time 47.7 BPM · double time 190.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (628.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- If It Makes You HappySheryl CrowG major95BPM
- Rock 'n' Roll High SchoolThe AtarisG major95BPM
- I Don’t Want to Spoil the PartyThe BeatlesG major96BPM
- After ForeverBlack SabbathG major96BPM
- Set the Fire to the Third BarSnow Patrol feat. Martha WainwrightG major96BPM
- Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)Green DayG major95BPM
- Just Give Me a ReasonP!nk feat. Nate RuessG major95BPM
- StyleTaylor SwiftG major95BPM
- You Rock My WorldMichael JacksonG major95BPM
- LingerThe CranberriesG major95BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 95 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 95 BPMG major at 90–99 BPMEric Clapton
MusicBrainz collapses 248 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0ad55b53-db63-4acf-b285-ca1e98b9d22a.