a‐ha · Hunting High and Low
Hunting High and Low
Hunting High and Low is in A minor at 116.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
117 BPM · Moderatomedian of 407 analyses · 116.7–117 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 407people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 513.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 446.7Hz · +26 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.58dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.751Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.045Essentia'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
407 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 407 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 116.9 BPM one beat lasts 513.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 128.3 ms and a dotted eighth 384.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 233.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 446.7 Hz, which is 26 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 3.58 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 0.751 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 117 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2053 | 0.49 |
| Half note | 2 | 1026.5 | 0.97 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 769.9 | 1.3 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 513.3 | 1.95 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 342.2 | 2.92 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 384.9 | 2.6 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 256.6 | 3.9 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 171.1 | 5.85 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 192.5 | 5.2 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 128.3 | 7.79 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 85.5 | 11.69 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 64.2 | 15.59 |
Half time 58.5 BPM · double time 233.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (513.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- She Way OutThe 1975A minor117BPM
- Hunting High and Low (remix)a‐haA minor117BPM
- Seven DevilsFlorence + the MachineA minor117BPM
- Prayers for RainThe CureA minor117BPM
- SiftingNirvanaA minor117BPM
- Big BlockJeff BeckA minor117BPM
- Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My CarBilly OceanA minor117BPM
- She’s Got BallsAC/DCA minor117BPM
- Green CalxAphex TwinA minor117BPM
- Come On HomeFranz FerdinandA minor117BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 117 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 117 BPMA minor at 110–119 BPMa‐ha
MusicBrainz collapses 24 recording ids into this one. Recording id da291a7e-3d71-4bcf-b5dd-0727d3deb95a.