Steve Miller Band · Abracadabra
Abracadabra
Abracadabra is in A minor at 127.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
127 BPM · Allegromedian of 169 analyses · 125.3–127.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 169people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 471.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 450.3Hz · +40 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.57dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.894Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.292Essentia'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
169 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 169 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 125.3 to 127.3 BPM.
At 127.3 BPM one beat lasts 471.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.8 ms and a dotted eighth 353.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 254.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 450.3 Hz, which is 40 cents above 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 3.57 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 0.894 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 127 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1885.3 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 942.7 | 1.06 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 707 | 1.41 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 471.3 | 2.12 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 314.2 | 3.18 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 353.5 | 2.83 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 235.7 | 4.24 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 157.1 | 6.37 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 176.7 | 5.66 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 117.8 | 8.49 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 78.6 | 12.73 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.9 | 16.97 |
Half time 63.7 BPM · double time 254.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (471.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Don’t Stop the DanceBryan FerryA minor127BPM
- Star GuitarThe Chemical BrothersA minor127BPM
- GuajiraSantanaA minor127BPM
- Pictures of LilyThe WhoA minor127BPM
- And She WasTalking HeadsA minor127BPM
- The Other SideJason DeruloA minor128BPM
- Fn Pigdeadmau5A minor128BPM
- Drinking from the BottleCalvin Harris feat. Tinie TempahA minor128BPM
- Wrapped Around Your FingerThe PoliceA minor128BPM
- The Edge of GloryLady GagaA minor128BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 127 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 127 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMSteve Miller Band
MusicBrainz collapses 35 recording ids into this one. Recording id c0dfa075-6172-46ba-8059-4a92443a7bf0.