Santana featuring Michelle Branch · Shaman
The Game of Love
The Game of Love is in D major at 119.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
120 BPM · Moderatomedian of 128 analyses · 119.8–120.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 85%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 128people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 500.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.2Hz · -3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.31dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.892Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.119Essentia'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
128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 85% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 119.8 BPM one beat lasts 500.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.2 ms and a dotted eighth 375.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 239.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.2 Hz, which is 3 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 3.31 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 0.892 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 120 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2003.3 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 1001.7 | 1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 751.3 | 1.33 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 500.8 | 2 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 333.9 | 3 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 375.6 | 2.66 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 250.4 | 3.99 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 166.9 | 5.99 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 187.8 | 5.32 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 125.2 | 7.99 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 83.5 | 11.98 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.6 | 15.97 |
Half time 59.9 BPM · double time 239.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (500.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- Dancing in the StreetVan HalenD major120BPM
- Put Your Head on My ShoulderMichael BubléD major120BPM
- Hey NineteenSteely DanD major120BPM
- You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ YetBachman–Turner OverdriveD major120BPM
- Love Me TenderElvis PresleyD major120BPM
- VisionsEaglesD major120BPM
- Up With the BirdsColdplayD major120BPM
- Last Night on EarthGreen DayD major120BPM
- I Can See Clearly NowJimmy CliffD major120BPM
- The Bewlay BrothersDavid BowieD major119BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 120 BPMD major at 110–119 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 127993e7-6d72-4321-8dcc-363e73d72a41.