Buena Vista Social Club · Buena Vista Social Club
Veinte años
Veinte años is in E minor at 114.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
115 BPM · Moderatomedian of 154 analyses · 114.5–114.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 154people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 524milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437Hz · -12 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.51dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.537Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.136Essentia'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
154 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 154 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 114.5 BPM one beat lasts 524 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 131 ms and a dotted eighth 393 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 229. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437 Hz, which is 12 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 5.51 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 0.537 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 E 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 E minor
Each of these differs from E 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 115 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2096.1 | 0.48 |
| Half note | 2 | 1048 | 0.95 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 786 | 1.27 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 524 | 1.91 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 349.3 | 2.86 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 393 | 2.54 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 262 | 3.82 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 174.7 | 5.73 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 196.5 | 5.09 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 131 | 7.63 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 87.3 | 11.45 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 65.5 | 15.27 |
Half time 57.3 BPM · double time 229 BPM. Every row is one beat (524 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- lovelyBillie Eilish & KhalidE minor115BPM
- RelaxFrankie Goes to HollywoodE minor115BPM
- Blow Me (One Last Kiss)P!nkE minor114BPM
- Outside Woman BluesCreamE minor114BPM
- ExitU2E minor115BPM
- The Wild BoysDuran DuranE minor116BPM
- Not Fade AwayThe Rolling StonesE minor113BPM
- OutlandsDaft PunkE minor113BPM
- Grafton StreetDidoE minor116BPM
- TeamBon IverE minor113BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 115 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 115 BPME minor at 110–119 BPMBuena Vista Social Club
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id de7429d0-04f4-4c20-b0d8-b350610db002.