Genesis · Abacab
Abacab
Abacab is in F major at 130.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
131 BPM · Allegromedian of 236 analyses · 130.6–164.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 78%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 236people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 459.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.63dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.742Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.384Essentia'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
236 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 78% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 236 readings; 86% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 130.6 to 164.6 BPM.
At 130.7 BPM one beat lasts 459.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.8 ms and a dotted eighth 344.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 261.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 cents above 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 4.63 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 0.742 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 131 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1836.3 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 918.1 | 1.09 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 688.6 | 1.45 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 459.1 | 2.18 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 306 | 3.27 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 344.3 | 2.9 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 229.5 | 4.36 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 153 | 6.54 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 172.1 | 5.81 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 114.8 | 8.71 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 76.5 | 13.07 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.4 | 17.43 |
Half time 65.4 BPM · double time 261.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (459.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 131 BPMF major at 130–139 BPMGenesis
MusicBrainz collapses 73 recording ids into this one. Recording id dbc137d6-ac33-4503-a9d9-df63e7f841e3.