Black Box · Dreamland
Strike It Up
Strike It Up is in C sharp minor at 118.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
119 BPM · Moderatomedian of 146 analyses · 118.4–119.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 54%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 146people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 505.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.1dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.945Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.599Essentia'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
146 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 54% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 146 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 118.7 BPM one beat lasts 505.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 126.4 ms and a dotted eighth 379.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 237.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 4.1 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 0.945 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 C sharp 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 C♯ minor
Each of these differs from C♯ 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 119 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2021.9 | 0.49 |
| Half note | 2 | 1011 | 0.99 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 758.2 | 1.32 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 505.5 | 1.98 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 337 | 2.97 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 379.1 | 2.64 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 252.7 | 3.96 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 168.5 | 5.94 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 189.6 | 5.28 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 126.4 | 7.91 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 84.2 | 11.87 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 63.2 | 15.83 |
Half time 59.4 BPM · double time 237.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (505.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- It’s a MiracleCulture ClubC♯ minor119BPM
- Representin’ 932PacC♯ minor119BPM
- ThrillerMichael JacksonC♯ minor118BPM
- Face to FaceDaft PunkC♯ minor118BPM
- ArrivalDaft PunkC♯ minor120BPM
- The BrainwasherDaft PunkC♯ minor120BPM
- MapsMaroon 5C♯ minor120BPM
- Till It Happens to YouCorinne Bailey RaeC♯ minor120BPM
- All I’ve Got to DoThe BeatlesC♯ minor120BPM
- PtolemyAphex TwinC♯ minor117BPM
Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 119 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 119 BPMC♯ minor at 110–119 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 56 recording ids into this one. Recording id cb16020d-6116-4569-af8c-bb3dea68ed91.