TempoPeek

Bachman–Turner Overdrive · Not Fragile

Roll On Down the Highway

Roll On Down the Highway is in D major at 141.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

142 BPM · Allegromedian of 144 analyses · 139.4–141.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
55%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
144people who ran the extractor
One beat
423.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
444.1Hz · +16 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.41dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.935Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.318Essentia'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

144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 55% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 139.4 to 141.9 BPM.

At 141.8 BPM one beat lasts 423.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105.8 ms and a dotted eighth 317.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 283.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.1 Hz, which is 16 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 2.41 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 0.935 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 D 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 D major

Each of these differs from D 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 142 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41692.50.59
Half note2846.31.18
Dotted quarter1.5634.71.58
Quarter note (one beat)1423.12.36
Quarter triplet0.667282.13.55
Dotted eighth0.75317.33.15
Eighth note0.5211.64.73
Eighth triplet0.3331417.09
Dotted sixteenth0.375158.76.3
Sixteenth note0.25105.89.45
Sixteenth triplet0.16770.514.18
Thirty-second note0.12552.918.91

Half time 70.9 BPM · double time 283.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (423.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. If Walls Could TalkCéline DionD major142BPM
  2. Ozone BabyLed ZeppelinD major142BPM
  3. Sweet Baby JamesJames TaylorD major142BPM
  4. Ain’t No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire)AC/DCD major142BPM
  5. LuanneForeignerD major141BPM
  6. Back in the U.S.S.R.The BeatlesD major143BPM
  7. In Between DaysThe CureD major143BPM
  8. Any Time at AllThe BeatlesD major141BPM
  9. I’ll Make Love to YouBoyz II MenD major143BPM
  10. Embryonic JourneyJefferson AirplaneD major143BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 142 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 142 BPMD major at 140–149 BPMBachman–Turner Overdrive

MusicBrainz collapses 22 recording ids into this one. Recording id d6fff18a-d604-4542-996e-a40f12a51fc3.