TempoPeek

Fatboy Slim · You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Build It Up – Tear It Down

Build It Up – Tear It Down is in E flat major at 144.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

144 BPM · Allegromedian of 132 analyses · 144.3–144.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
93%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
132people who ran the extractor
One beat
415.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
447.2Hz · +28 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.13dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.719Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.097Essentia'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

132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 144.3 BPM one beat lasts 415.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104 ms and a dotted eighth 311.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 288.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 447.2 Hz, which is 28 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 4.13 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 0.719 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 E 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 E♭ major

Each of these differs from E♭ 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 144 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41663.20.6
Half note2831.61.2
Dotted quarter1.5623.71.6
Quarter note (one beat)1415.82.41
Quarter triplet0.667277.23.61
Dotted eighth0.75311.93.21
Eighth note0.5207.94.81
Eighth triplet0.333138.67.22
Dotted sixteenth0.375155.96.41
Sixteenth note0.251049.62
Sixteenth triplet0.16769.314.43
Thirty-second note0.1255219.24

Half time 72.2 BPM · double time 288.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (415.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. When We Were YoungAdeleE♭ major144BPM
  2. UnfaithfulRihannaE♭ major144BPM
  3. If 6 Was 9The Jimi Hendrix ExperienceE♭ major144BPM
  4. ThirstyDayaE♭ major145BPM
  5. Like SonnyJohn ColtraneE♭ major145BPM
  6. LongviewGreen DayE♭ major144BPM
  7. Save MeAimee MannE♭ major144BPM
  8. ¿Y tú qué has hecho?Buena Vista Social ClubE♭ major147BPM
  9. Born in the 50’sThe PoliceE♭ major141BPM
  10. PanamaVan HalenE♭ major141BPM

Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 144 BPME♭ major at 140–149 BPMFatboy Slim

MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5db6a0d3-9e51-4267-9e38-8f607722a13a.