Santana · Santana
Soul Sacrifice
Soul Sacrifice is in A minor at 136.4 beats per minute.
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 value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1759.5 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 879.8 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 659.8 | 1.52 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 439.9 | 2.27 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 293.3 | 3.41 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 329.9 | 3.03 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 219.9 | 4.55 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 146.6 | 6.82 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165 | 6.06 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110 | 9.09 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.3 | 13.64 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55 | 18.19 |
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
- It’s Just ForeverCage the Elephant feat. Alison MosshartA minor136BPM
- Cover MeBjörkA minor136BPM
- BarracudaHeartA minor137BPM
- You Have Been LovedGeorge MichaelA minor137BPM
- Furthest ThingDrakeA minor137BPM
- Babe I’m Gonna Leave YouLed ZeppelinA minor136BPM
- 7/11BeyoncéA minor136BPM
- Last Living SoulsGorillazA minor137BPM
- Dog Eat DogAC/DCA minor137BPM
- 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.