Santana · Abraxas
Incident at Neshabur
Incident at Neshabur is in F major at 135.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
135 BPM · Allegromedian of 134 analyses · 134.8–135.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 87%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 134people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 443.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.53dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.611Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.007Essentia'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
134 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 87% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 134.8 to 135.9 BPM.
At 135.2 BPM one beat lasts 443.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.9 ms and a dotted eighth 332.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 270.4. 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 5.53 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 0.611 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 135 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1775.1 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 887.6 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 665.7 | 1.5 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 443.8 | 2.25 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 295.9 | 3.38 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 332.8 | 3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 221.9 | 4.51 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 147.9 | 6.76 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 166.4 | 6.01 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.9 | 9.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 74 | 13.52 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.5 | 18.03 |
Half time 67.6 BPM · double time 270.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (443.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- DowntownThe B‐52sF major135BPM
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- The PassengerIggy PopF major135BPM
- Go Your Own WayFleetwood MacF major136BPM
- Shepherd MoonsEnyaF major136BPM
- Baby LoveThe SupremesF major136BPM
- Woke Up With WoodZZ TopF major135BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 135 BPMF major at 130–139 BPMSantana
MusicBrainz collapses 33 recording ids into this one. Recording id 88745515-6b44-49ef-9915-daa0a7220aaf.