TempoPeek

The Rolling Stones · Aftermath

High and Dry

High and Dry is in E major at 113.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

114 BPM · Moderatomedian of 134 analyses · 113.8–133.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
52%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
134people who ran the extractor
One beat
526.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
455.5Hz · +60 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.788Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.125Essentia'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

134 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 52% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 86% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 113.8 to 133.2 BPM.

At 113.9 BPM one beat lasts 526.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 131.7 ms and a dotted eighth 395.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57 BPM, counted twice as fast 227.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 455.5 Hz, which is 60 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3 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 0.788 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 E 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 114 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42107.10.47
Half note21053.60.95
Dotted quarter1.5790.21.27
Quarter note (one beat)1526.81.9
Quarter triplet0.667351.22.85
Dotted eighth0.75395.12.53
Eighth note0.5263.43.8
Eighth triplet0.333175.65.7
Dotted sixteenth0.375197.55.06
Sixteenth note0.25131.77.59
Sixteenth triplet0.16787.811.39
Thirty-second note0.12565.815.19

Half time 57 BPM · double time 227.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (526.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. High and DryRadioheadA major88BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. VoleCéline DionE major114BPM
  2. Inside Your MindThe 1975E major114BPM
  3. Radio MothMeat PuppetsE major114BPM
  4. Sea of SimulationDaft PunkE major114BPM
  5. Burnin’ AliveAC/DCE major114BPM
  6. Train Leaves Here This MorningEaglesE major115BPM
  7. So Far AwayDire StraitsE major115BPM
  8. Heart of GlassBlondieE major115BPM
  9. White MustangLana Del ReyE major115BPM
  10. Half Light II (No Celebration)Arcade FireE major113BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 114 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 114 BPME major at 110–119 BPMThe Rolling Stones

MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id e37a1273-0853-4a89-ba8d-12a728c9ea17.