Bob Marley & The Wailers · Exodus
Punky Reggae Party
Punky Reggae Party is in B minor at 135.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
135 BPM · Allegromedian of 153 analyses · 135.4–135.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 153people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 443.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.2Hz · -7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.05dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.962Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.903Essentia'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
153 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 153 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 135.4 BPM one beat lasts 443.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.8 ms and a dotted eighth 332.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 270.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.2 Hz, which is 7 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 4.05 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 0.962 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 B 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 B minor
Each of these differs from B 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 135 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1772.5 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 886.3 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 664.7 | 1.5 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 443.1 | 2.26 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 295.4 | 3.39 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 332.3 | 3.01 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 221.6 | 4.51 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 147.7 | 6.77 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 166.2 | 6.02 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.8 | 9.03 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.9 | 13.54 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.4 | 18.05 |
Half time 67.7 BPM · double time 270.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (443.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Gangnam Style (강남스타일)PSYB minor132BPM
- Dollars and CentsRadioheadB minor139BPM
- We’re Going WrongCreamB minor132BPM
- No Money No LoveDavid Guetta & Showtek feat. Elliphant & Ms. DynamiteB minor132BPM
- Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)Arcade FireB minor131BPM
- A Saucerful of SecretsPink FloydB minor130BPM
- Let It Will BeMadonnaB minor130BPM
- Lucifer SamPink FloydB minor141BPM
- Horse LatitudesThe DoorsB minor130BPM
- Hello AgainThe CarsB minor129BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 135 BPMB minor at 130–139 BPMBob Marley & The Wailers
MusicBrainz collapses 18 recording ids into this one. Recording id cfd90954-89a3-4d28-9537-808cd3a7b1c4.