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Mr. Soul

Mr. Soul is in A major at 133.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

134 BPM · Allegromedian of 175 analyses · 133.3–134.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
175people who ran the extractor
One beat
449.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.55dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.872Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.168Essentia'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

175 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 175 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 133.3 to 134.8 BPM.

At 133.6 BPM one beat lasts 449.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 112.3 ms and a dotted eighth 336.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 267.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 cents below 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 4.55 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 0.872 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 major; 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 major

Each of these differs from A major 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 134 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41796.40.56
Half note2898.21.11
Dotted quarter1.5673.71.48
Quarter note (one beat)1449.12.23
Quarter triplet0.667299.43.34
Dotted eighth0.75336.82.97
Eighth note0.5224.64.45
Eighth triplet0.333149.76.68
Dotted sixteenth0.375168.45.94
Sixteenth note0.25112.38.91
Sixteenth triplet0.16774.913.36
Thirty-second note0.12556.117.81

Half time 66.8 BPM · double time 267.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (449.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Rock ’n’ Roll DamnationAC/DCA major134BPM
  2. Little WingDerek and the DominosA major134BPM
  3. Quiche LorraineThe B‐52sA major133BPM
  4. MultifunktionsebeneApparatA major134BPM
  5. All About That BassMeghan TrainorA major134BPM
  6. All Because of YouU2A major134BPM
  7. Please Forgive MeBryan AdamsA major134BPM
  8. Misty Mountain HopLed ZeppelinA major133BPM
  9. I’m a BoyThe WhoA major133BPM
  10. California (There Is No End to Love)U2A major133BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 134 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 134 BPMA major at 130–139 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 16 recording ids into this one. Recording id 09654919-2a53-46bc-9890-caf330ceb3d3.