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Namasté
Namasté is in C sharp minor at 145.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
145 BPM · Allegromedian of 142 analyses · 145.1–146.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 142people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 413.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.28dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.627Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.194Essentia'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
142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 142 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 145.1 to 146.2 BPM.
At 145.2 BPM one beat lasts 413.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 103.3 ms and a dotted eighth 309.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 290.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above 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 5.28 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 0.627 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 C sharp 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 C♯ minor
Each of these differs from C♯ 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 145 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1652.9 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 826.4 | 1.21 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 619.8 | 1.61 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 413.2 | 2.42 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 275.5 | 3.63 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 309.9 | 3.23 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 206.6 | 4.84 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 137.7 | 7.26 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 155 | 6.45 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 103.3 | 9.68 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 68.9 | 14.52 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 51.7 | 19.36 |
Half time 72.6 BPM · double time 290.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (413.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Dancing ShoesArctic MonkeysC♯ minor145BPM
- The Beautiful PeopleMarilyn MansonC♯ minor144BPM
- My Own Summer (Shove It)DeftonesC♯ minor143BPM
- No QuarterLed ZeppelinC♯ minor143BPM
- SpiesColdplayC♯ minor148BPM
- Granular BastardApparatC♯ minor148BPM
- Come a Little CloserCage the ElephantC♯ minor148BPM
- Bad Boy BoogieAC/DCC♯ minor142BPM
- Spinning the WheelGeorge MichaelC♯ minor150BPM
- Liquor Store BluesBruno Mars feat. Damian MarleyC♯ minor151BPM
Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 145 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 145 BPMC♯ minor at 140–149 BPMBeastie Boys
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id b993f81a-c95d-4c50-b6f0-f228dab7bb59.