Santana · Santana

Soul Sacrifice

Soul Sacrifice is in A minor at 136.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

136 BPM · Allegromedian of 190 analyses · 136–136.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
85%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
190people who ran the extractor
One beat
439.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.73dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.937Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.254Essentia'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

190 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 85% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 190 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 136.4 BPM one beat lasts 439.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110 ms and a dotted eighth 329.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 272.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.73 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 0.937 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 136 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41759.50.57
Half note2879.81.14
Dotted quarter1.5659.81.52
Quarter note (one beat)1439.92.27
Quarter triplet0.667293.33.41
Dotted eighth0.75329.93.03
Eighth note0.5219.94.55
Eighth triplet0.333146.66.82
Dotted sixteenth0.3751656.06
Sixteenth note0.251109.09
Sixteenth triplet0.16773.313.64
Thirty-second note0.1255518.19

Half time 68.2 BPM · double time 272.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (439.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. It’s Just ForeverCage the Elephant feat. Alison MosshartA minor136BPM
  2. Cover MeBjörkA minor136BPM
  3. BarracudaHeartA minor137BPM
  4. You Have Been LovedGeorge MichaelA minor137BPM
  5. Furthest ThingDrakeA minor137BPM
  6. Babe I’m Gonna Leave YouLed ZeppelinA minor136BPM
  7. 7/11BeyoncéA minor136BPM
  8. Last Living SoulsGorillazA minor137BPM
  9. Dog Eat DogAC/DCA minor137BPM
  10. Things We Said TodayThe BeatlesA minor137BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 136 BPMA minor at 130–139 BPMSantana

MusicBrainz collapses 125 recording ids into this one. Recording id 81db2c6b-fd47-4e11-89eb-33a263503bd3.