Heart · Little Queen

Barracuda

Barracuda is in A minor at 136.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

137 BPM · Allegromedian of 324 analyses · 136.6–136.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
69%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
324people who ran the extractor
One beat
438.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.19dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.949Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.269Essentia'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

324 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 69% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 324 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 136.7 BPM one beat lasts 438.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 109.7 ms and a dotted eighth 329.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 273.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 2.19 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 0.949 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 137 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41755.70.57
Half note2877.81.14
Dotted quarter1.5658.41.52
Quarter note (one beat)1438.92.28
Quarter triplet0.667292.63.42
Dotted eighth0.75329.23.04
Eighth note0.5219.54.56
Eighth triplet0.333146.36.84
Dotted sixteenth0.375164.66.08
Sixteenth note0.25109.79.11
Sixteenth triplet0.16773.213.67
Thirty-second note0.12554.918.23

Half time 68.4 BPM · double time 273.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (438.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. You Have Been LovedGeorge MichaelA minor137BPM
  2. Furthest ThingDrakeA minor137BPM
  3. Soul SacrificeSantanaA minor136BPM
  4. Last Living SoulsGorillazA minor137BPM
  5. Dog Eat DogAC/DCA minor137BPM
  6. Things We Said TodayThe BeatlesA minor137BPM
  7. It’s Just ForeverCage the Elephant feat. Alison MosshartA minor136BPM
  8. Cover MeBjörkA minor136BPM
  9. The One ThingINXSA minor137BPM
  10. Still Can’t…The CranberriesA minor137BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 137 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 137 BPMA minor at 130–139 BPMHeart

MusicBrainz collapses 79 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5805b3d7-eef0-4b96-a7dd-621695f7a35a.