TempoPeek

The Strokes · Is This It

Soma

Soma is in G major at 148.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

149 BPM · Allegromedian of 164 analyses · 146.6–149 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
88%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
164people who ran the extractor
One beat
403milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.34dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.951Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.127Essentia'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

164 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 88% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 164 readings; 85% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 146.6 to 149 BPM.

At 148.9 BPM one beat lasts 403 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 100.7 ms and a dotted eighth 302.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 297.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 2.34 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 0.951 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 149 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41611.80.62
Half note2805.91.24
Dotted quarter1.5604.41.65
Quarter note (one beat)14032.48
Quarter triplet0.667268.63.72
Dotted eighth0.75302.23.31
Eighth note0.5201.54.96
Eighth triplet0.333134.37.45
Dotted sixteenth0.375151.16.62
Sixteenth note0.25100.79.93
Sixteenth triplet0.16767.214.89
Thirty-second note0.12550.419.85

Half time 74.5 BPM · double time 297.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (403 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. SomaSmashing PumpkinsE minor144BPM

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

  1. Green Is the ColourPink FloydG major149BPM
  2. I Fought the LawThe Bobby Fuller FourG major149BPM
  3. Crocodile RockElton JohnG major150BPM
  4. Just Missed the TrainKelly ClarksonG major150BPM
  5. Love Me DoThe BeatlesG major148BPM
  6. Only Women BleedAlice CooperG major148BPM
  7. Hold OnJetG major148BPM
  8. These Are the DaysJamie CullumG major148BPM
  9. Dog Days Are OverFlorence + the MachineG major150BPM
  10. Do You Have a Little TimeDidoG major148BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 149 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 149 BPMG major at 140–149 BPMThe Strokes

MusicBrainz collapses 29 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6b72c707-1329-44e5-842d-8c8fae3a2b4d.