Daft Punk · Discovery
High Life
High Life is in A flat major at 125.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
125 BPM · Allegromedian of 328 analyses · 125.2–125.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 328people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 479.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 431.9Hz · -32 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.93dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.775Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.349Essentia'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
328 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 328 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 125.2 BPM one beat lasts 479.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119.8 ms and a dotted eighth 359.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 250.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 431.9 Hz, which is 32 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 3.93 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 0.775 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 flat 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 A♭ major
Each of these differs from A♭ 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 125 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1916.9 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 958.5 | 1.04 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 718.8 | 1.39 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 479.2 | 2.09 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 319.5 | 3.13 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 359.4 | 2.78 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 239.6 | 4.17 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 159.7 | 6.26 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 179.7 | 5.56 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 119.8 | 8.35 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 79.9 | 12.52 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 59.9 | 16.69 |
Half time 62.6 BPM · double time 250.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (479.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- I Need Your LoveCalvin Harris feat. Ellie GouldingA♭ major125BPM
- A View to a KillDuran DuranA♭ major126BPM
- Like a G6Far East Movement ft. Cataracs & DevA♭ major125BPM
- Love Me NowJohn LegendA♭ major125BPM
- Higher GroundStevie WonderA♭ major126BPM
- All of MeJohn LegendA♭ major126BPM
- I Wish It Would Rain DownPhil CollinsA♭ major126BPM
- Sloop John BThe Beach BoysA♭ major126BPM
- Goodbye StrangerSupertrampA♭ major126BPM
- IfDestiny’s ChildA♭ major126BPM
Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 125 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 125 BPMA♭ major at 120–129 BPMDaft Punk
MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 07b720fc-0d6f-4342-a6df-876d1749de0b.