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Heart of Stone
Heart of Stone is in C major at 95 beats per minute.
Tempo
95 BPM · Andantemedian of 150 analyses · 93.8–184.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 64%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 150people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 631.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.86dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.874Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.152Essentia'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
150 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 64% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 150 readings; 59% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 93.8 to 184.6 BPM.
At 95 BPM one beat lasts 631.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 157.9 ms and a dotted eighth 473.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 190. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 3.86 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 0.874 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 95 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2526.3 | 0.4 |
| Half note | 2 | 1263.2 | 0.79 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 947.4 | 1.06 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 631.6 | 1.58 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 421.1 | 2.38 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 473.7 | 2.11 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 315.8 | 3.17 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 210.5 | 4.75 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 236.8 | 4.22 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 157.9 | 6.33 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 105.3 | 9.5 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 78.9 | 12.67 |
Half time 47.5 BPM · double time 190 BPM. Every row is one beat (631.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Sticky SweetMötley CrüeC major95BPM
- UntitledThe CureC major95BPM
- Brilliant MistakeThe Costello Show feat. The Attractions and ConfederatesC major95BPM
- Hello HoorayAlice CooperC major95BPM
- RegulateWarren G feat. Nate DoggC major96BPM
- SmileLily AllenC major96BPM
- JackassGreen DayC major95BPM
- Stormy May DayAC/DCC major96BPM
- Slide AwayOasisC major95BPM
- Like a Rolling StoneBob DylanC major96BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 95 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 95 BPMC major at 90–99 BPMThe Rolling Stones
MusicBrainz collapses 139 recording ids into this one. Recording id 05bf721e-d257-4301-bf09-72a5fab0aa25.