David Bowie · “Heroes”
Sense of Doubt
Sense of Doubt is in A minor at 131.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
132 BPM · Allegromedian of 239 analyses · 129.5–132.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 86%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 239people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 455.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.78dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.063Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.759Essentia'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
239 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 86% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 239 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 129.5 to 132.1 BPM.
At 131.6 BPM one beat lasts 455.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114 ms and a dotted eighth 341.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 263.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 5.78 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 0.063 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 132 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1823.7 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 911.9 | 1.1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 683.9 | 1.46 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 455.9 | 2.19 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 304 | 3.29 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 341.9 | 2.92 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 228 | 4.39 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 152 | 6.58 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 171 | 5.85 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 114 | 8.77 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 76 | 13.16 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57 | 17.55 |
Half time 65.8 BPM · double time 263.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (455.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Girls on FilmDuran DuranA minor132BPM
- PiggyNine Inch NailsA minor132BPM
- Around the World (La La La La La)ATCA minor132BPM
- I Can See for MilesThe WhoA minor131BPM
- I Want It AllArctic MonkeysA minor131BPM
- El mañanaGorillazA minor132BPM
- HelloOasisA minor132BPM
- Natural MysticBob Marley & The WailersA minor131BPM
- Tooth and NailForeignerA minor131BPM
- Crazy on YouHeartA minor130BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 132 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 132 BPMA minor at 130–139 BPMDavid Bowie
MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8405e7f1-dcaa-4058-9457-9dcf92250706.