Santana · Abraxas

Incident at Neshabur

Incident at Neshabur is in F major at 135.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

135 BPM · Allegromedian of 134 analyses · 134.8–135.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
87%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
134people who ran the extractor
One beat
443.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.53dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.611Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.007Essentia'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. Most of them — 87% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 134.8 to 135.9 BPM.

At 135.2 BPM one beat lasts 443.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.9 ms and a dotted eighth 332.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 270.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.53 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 0.611 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 135 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41775.10.56
Half note2887.61.13
Dotted quarter1.5665.71.5
Quarter note (one beat)1443.82.25
Quarter triplet0.667295.93.38
Dotted eighth0.75332.83
Eighth note0.5221.94.51
Eighth triplet0.333147.96.76
Dotted sixteenth0.375166.46.01
Sixteenth note0.25110.99.01
Sixteenth triplet0.1677413.52
Thirty-second note0.12555.518.03

Half time 67.6 BPM · double time 270.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (443.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. DowntownThe B‐52sF major135BPM
  2. HairLady GagaF major135BPM
  3. For a Better DayAviciiF major135BPM
  4. HurricaneBob DylanF major135BPM
  5. Hold Back the RiverJames BayF major135BPM
  6. The PassengerIggy PopF major135BPM
  7. Go Your Own WayFleetwood MacF major136BPM
  8. Shepherd MoonsEnyaF major136BPM
  9. Baby LoveThe SupremesF major136BPM
  10. Woke Up With WoodZZ TopF major135BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 135 BPMF major at 130–139 BPMSantana

MusicBrainz collapses 33 recording ids into this one. Recording id 88745515-6b44-49ef-9915-daa0a7220aaf.