Neil Young · After the Gold Rush
Cripple Creek Ferry
Cripple Creek Ferry is in C major at 128.2 beats per minute.
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 value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1872.1 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 936 | 1.07 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 702 | 1.42 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 468 | 2.14 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 312 | 3.21 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 351 | 2.85 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 234 | 4.27 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 156 | 6.41 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 175.5 | 5.7 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 117 | 8.55 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 78 | 12.82 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.5 | 17.09 |
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
- Seven YearsNorah JonesC major128BPM
- Just Can’t Get EnoughDepeche ModeC major128BPM
- IntroThe ProdigyC major128BPM
- All of MeMichael BubléC major128BPM
- Save the Life of My ChildSimon & GarfunkelC major128BPM
- All or Nothing At AllFrank SinatraC major128BPM
- I Gotta FeelingThe Black Eyed PeasC major128BPM
- I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)Four TopsC major128BPM
- Like You’ll Never See Me AgainAlicia KeysC major128BPM
- 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.