Bob Marley & The Wailers · Exodus

Natural Mystic

Natural Mystic is in A minor at 130.6 beats per minute.

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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 valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41837.70.54
Half note2918.81.09
Dotted quarter1.5689.11.45
Quarter note (one beat)1459.42.18
Quarter triplet0.667306.33.26
Dotted eighth0.75344.62.9
Eighth note0.5229.74.35
Eighth triplet0.333153.16.53
Dotted sixteenth0.375172.35.8
Sixteenth note0.25114.98.71
Sixteenth triplet0.16776.613.06
Thirty-second note0.12557.417.41

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

  1. Tooth and NailForeignerA minor131BPM
  2. Crazy on YouHeartA minor130BPM
  3. I Want It AllArctic MonkeysA minor131BPM
  4. Live With MeThe Rolling StonesA minor130BPM
  5. I Can See for MilesThe WhoA minor131BPM
  6. SupermanEminem feat. Dina RaeA minor130BPM
  7. If U Seek AmyBritney SpearsA minor130BPM
  8. EifersuchtRammsteinA minor130BPM
  9. SteinholzApparatA minor130BPM
  10. 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.