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Mantra

Mantra is in B minor at 149.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

150 BPM · Allegromedian of 132 analyses · 112.3–154.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
132people who ran the extractor
One beat
401.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
447.2Hz · +28 cents from A 440
Dynamics
7.93dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.773Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.961Essentia'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

132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 36% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 112.3 to 154.5 BPM.

At 149.6 BPM one beat lasts 401.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 100.3 ms and a dotted eighth 300.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 299.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 447.2 Hz, which is 28 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 7.93 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 0.773 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 150 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41604.30.62
Half note2802.11.25
Dotted quarter1.5601.61.66
Quarter note (one beat)1401.12.49
Quarter triplet0.667267.43.74
Dotted eighth0.75300.83.32
Eighth note0.5200.54.99
Eighth triplet0.333133.77.48
Dotted sixteenth0.375150.46.65
Sixteenth note0.25100.39.97
Sixteenth triplet0.16766.814.96
Thirty-second note0.12550.119.95

Half time 74.8 BPM · double time 299.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (401.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. WHEN I WAS OLDERBillie EilishB minor150BPM
  2. Calm Like a BombRage Against the MachineB minor149BPM
  3. Hotel CaliforniaEaglesB minor147BPM
  4. SinnermanNina SimoneB minor147BPM
  5. Isn’t It MidnightFleetwood MacB minor145BPM
  6. VökuróBjörkB minor144BPM
  7. Come Out and PlayOffspringB minor156BPM
  8. Lucifer SamPink FloydB minor141BPM
  9. Dollars and CentsRadioheadB minor139BPM
  10. SabrosaBeastie BoysB minor162BPM

Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 150 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B minorAll songs at 150 BPMB minor at 140–149 BPMTool

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 47955be1-7db4-4e04-87d0-1e80da339471.