Bob Marley & The Wailers · Exodus
Natural Mystic
Natural Mystic is in A minor at 130.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
131 BPM · Allegromedian of 183 analyses · 130.2–131.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 183people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 459.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.7dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.719Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.42Essentia'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
183 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 183 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 130.2 to 131.4 BPM.
At 130.6 BPM one beat lasts 459.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.9 ms and a dotted eighth 344.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 261.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 6.7 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 0.719 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 A 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A 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 131 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1837.7 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 918.8 | 1.09 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 689.1 | 1.45 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 459.4 | 2.18 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 306.3 | 3.26 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 344.6 | 2.9 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 229.7 | 4.35 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 153.1 | 6.53 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 172.3 | 5.8 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 114.9 | 8.71 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 76.6 | 13.06 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.4 | 17.41 |
Half time 65.3 BPM · double time 261.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (459.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Tooth and NailForeignerA minor131BPM
- Crazy on YouHeartA minor130BPM
- I Want It AllArctic MonkeysA minor131BPM
- Live With MeThe Rolling StonesA minor130BPM
- I Can See for MilesThe WhoA minor131BPM
- SupermanEminem feat. Dina RaeA minor130BPM
- If U Seek AmyBritney SpearsA minor130BPM
- EifersuchtRammsteinA minor130BPM
- SteinholzApparatA minor130BPM
- On the DancefloorDavid Guetta feat. will.i.am & apl.de.apA minor130BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 131 BPMA minor at 130–139 BPMBob Marley & The Wailers
MusicBrainz collapses 69 recording ids into this one. Recording id d8b155c4-a5fc-4b9e-9cec-a683fd84202c.