TempoPeek

Calvin Harris · 18 Months

School

School is in B major at 111.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

112 BPM · Moderatomedian of 128 analyses · 111.5–111.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
128people who ran the extractor
One beat
538.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
431.4Hz · -34 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.71dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.932Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.268Essentia'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

128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 111.5 BPM one beat lasts 538.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 134.5 ms and a dotted eighth 403.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 223. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 431.4 Hz, which is 34 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 3.71 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 0.932 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 B 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 112 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42152.50.46
Half note21076.20.93
Dotted quarter1.5807.21.24
Quarter note (one beat)1538.11.86
Quarter triplet0.667358.72.79
Dotted eighth0.75403.62.48
Eighth note0.5269.13.72
Eighth triplet0.333179.45.58
Dotted sixteenth0.375201.84.96
Sixteenth note0.25134.57.43
Sixteenth triplet0.16789.711.15
Thirty-second note0.12567.314.87

Half time 55.8 BPM · double time 223 BPM. Every row is one beat (538.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. SchoolSupertrampA minor90BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Tumbling DiceThe Rolling StonesB major111BPM
  2. Little GreenJoni MitchellB major111BPM
  3. Fluorescent AdolescentArctic MonkeysB major112BPM
  4. For EmmaBon IverB major111BPM
  5. Mr. DayJohn ColtraneB major113BPM
  6. I Miss Youblink‐182B major110BPM
  7. Take You HomeDidoB major110BPM
  8. Money Power GloryLana Del ReyB major110BPM
  9. Night FeverBee GeesB major109BPM
  10. Guns and RosesLana Del ReyB major109BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 112 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 112 BPMB major at 110–119 BPMCalvin Harris

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 1905359d-1d29-4715-83d7-4b3a80ab6fe8.