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The Heart of Rock & Roll
The Heart of Rock & Roll is in F major at 143.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
143 BPM · Allegromedian of 236 analyses · 143.2–143.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 236people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 418.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.44dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.883Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.399Essentia'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
236 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 236 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 143.3 BPM one beat lasts 418.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.7 ms and a dotted eighth 314 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 286.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 5.44 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 0.883 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 143 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1674.8 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 837.4 | 1.19 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 628.1 | 1.59 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 418.7 | 2.39 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 279.1 | 3.58 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 314 | 3.18 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 209.4 | 4.78 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 139.6 | 7.17 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 157 | 6.37 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 104.7 | 9.55 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69.8 | 14.33 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.3 | 19.11 |
Half time 71.7 BPM · double time 286.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (418.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- My Favourite GameThe CardigansF major143BPM
- When the Levee BreaksLed ZeppelinF major143BPM
- SwayThe Rolling StonesF major144BPM
- Twin Peaks ThemeAngelo BadalamentiF major144BPM
- DRIP$NotF major143BPM
- PodunkFoo FightersF major144BPM
- RockstarNickelbackF major144BPM
- What It TakesAerosmithF major143BPM
- Not Your FaultAWOLNATIONF major144BPM
- Every Day Is Exactly the SameNine Inch NailsF major144BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 143 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 143 BPMF major at 140–149 BPMHuey Lewis and the News
MusicBrainz collapses 16 recording ids into this one. Recording id d9996384-e412-4fda-8d7c-7b6e4595c1a4.