OYE COMO VA, Santana, single studio and Greatest Hits version, standard tempo/mean speed=128.9 beats per minute

These are three graphs, one radar, one linear with trend-line, and one illustrating results of all ten averaged trials of the contiguous 4 beat moving averages so depicted that illustrate the speed of the single version of Carlos Santana’s studio—Greatest Hits version also—of his cover of the Latin classic, an analysis of the original found on this site from two days ago: Tito Puente’s original Latin Salsa Oye Como Va.

The frequencies for Oye Como Va are:
standard tempo/mean speed=128.9 beats per minute
beat frequency=2.148 beats per second
average beat=465 milliseconds per beat.
mean slow phase=2.148 cycles per second.
corresponding pitch=549.97 Hertz, 14 cents above C5=523.251 Hertz and 86 cents below C#5/Db5=554.365 Hertz.

Ian Andrew Schneider
New York, NY
August 7, 2006