Neil Young · After the Gold Rush

Cripple Creek Ferry

Cripple Creek Ferry is in C major at 128.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

128 BPM · Allegromedian of 128 analyses · 128.2–128.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
128people who ran the extractor
One beat
468milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
7.95dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.812Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.196Essentia'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

128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 128.2 BPM one beat lasts 468 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117 ms and a dotted eighth 351 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 256.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 cents below 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 7.95 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 0.812 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 128 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41872.10.53
Half note29361.07
Dotted quarter1.57021.42
Quarter note (one beat)14682.14
Quarter triplet0.6673123.21
Dotted eighth0.753512.85
Eighth note0.52344.27
Eighth triplet0.3331566.41
Dotted sixteenth0.375175.55.7
Sixteenth note0.251178.55
Sixteenth triplet0.1677812.82
Thirty-second note0.12558.517.09

Half time 64.1 BPM · double time 256.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (468 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Seven YearsNorah JonesC major128BPM
  2. Just Can’t Get EnoughDepeche ModeC major128BPM
  3. IntroThe ProdigyC major128BPM
  4. All of MeMichael BubléC major128BPM
  5. Save the Life of My ChildSimon & GarfunkelC major128BPM
  6. All or Nothing At AllFrank SinatraC major128BPM
  7. I Gotta FeelingThe Black Eyed PeasC major128BPM
  8. I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)Four TopsC major128BPM
  9. Like You’ll Never See Me AgainAlicia KeysC major128BPM
  10. Brown SugarThe Rolling StonesC major129BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 128 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 128 BPMC major at 120–129 BPMNeil Young

MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 732a1131-9e79-4c36-aae1-060dd951a6c5.