Bob Marley & The Wailers · Exodus

Exodus

Exodus is in A minor at 133.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

133 BPM · Allegromedian of 248 analyses · 132.5–133.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
248people who ran the extractor
One beat
450.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.36dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.857Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.567Essentia'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

248 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 248 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 132.5 to 133.6 BPM.

At 133.1 BPM one beat lasts 450.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 112.7 ms and a dotted eighth 338.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 266.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.36 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 0.857 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 A minor; 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A minor 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 133 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41803.20.55
Half note2901.61.11
Dotted quarter1.5676.21.48
Quarter note (one beat)1450.82.22
Quarter triplet0.667300.53.33
Dotted eighth0.75338.12.96
Eighth note0.5225.44.44
Eighth triplet0.333150.36.66
Dotted sixteenth0.3751695.92
Sixteenth note0.25112.78.87
Sixteenth triplet0.16775.113.31
Thirty-second note0.12556.317.75

Half time 66.6 BPM · double time 266.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (450.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Walk on the WaterCreedence Clearwater RevivalA minor133BPM
  2. Howlin’ for YouThe Black KeysA minor133BPM
  3. Keep Yourself AliveQueenA minor133BPM
  4. Arnold LaynePink FloydA minor133BPM
  5. Life During WartimeTalking HeadsA minor133BPM
  6. Everything’s Coming Our WaySantanaA minor133BPM
  7. Line UpAerosmithA minor133BPM
  8. TalismanAirA minor133BPM
  9. Love Me Two TimesThe DoorsA minor133BPM
  10. Steamy WindowsTina TurnerA minor134BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 133 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 133 BPMA minor at 130–139 BPMBob Marley & The Wailers

MusicBrainz collapses 106 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4ee2ff88-ac68-4dee-9f7f-da99f6600415.