John Coltrane · Coltrane's Sound
Body and Soul
Body and Soul is in D flat major at 142.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
142 BPM · Allegromedian of 192 analyses · 141.2–142.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 192people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 421.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438Hz · -8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.67dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.466Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.103Essentia'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
192 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 192 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 141.2 to 142.4 BPM.
At 142.4 BPM one beat lasts 421.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105.3 ms and a dotted eighth 316 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 284.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438 Hz, which is 8 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 4.67 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 0.466 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 D flat 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 D♭ major
Each of these differs from D♭ 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 142 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1685.4 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 842.7 | 1.19 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 632 | 1.58 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 421.3 | 2.37 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 280.9 | 3.56 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 316 | 3.16 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 210.7 | 4.75 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 140.4 | 7.12 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 158 | 6.33 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 105.3 | 9.49 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 70.2 | 14.24 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.7 | 18.99 |
Half time 71.2 BPM · double time 284.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (421.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Children of the SeaBlack SabbathD♭ major142BPM
- Keep the FaithMichael JacksonD♭ major143BPM
- Heat of the MomentAsiaD♭ major143BPM
- Deck the Halls / We Wish You a Merry ChristmasNeil DiamondD♭ major143BPM
- HeroinThe Velvet UndergroundD♭ major144BPM
- Here Without You3 Doors DownD♭ major144BPM
- All I WantJoni MitchellD♭ major141BPM
- Mr. RobotoStyxD♭ major144BPM
- Sail OnCommodoresD♭ major141BPM
- TryColbie CaillatD♭ major140BPM
Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 142 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D flat majorAll songs at 142 BPMD♭ major at 140–149 BPMJohn Coltrane
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9b4e9548-b049-4480-b406-cb1eedaeede2.