TempoPeek

Pat Benatar · Crimes of Passion

Hell Is for Children

Hell Is for Children is in F major at 130.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

130 BPM · Allegromedian of 160 analyses · 130.3–131.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
83%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
160people who ran the extractor
One beat
460.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.16dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.783Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.257Essentia'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

160 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 83% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 160 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 130.3 to 131.8 BPM.

At 130.3 BPM one beat lasts 460.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115.1 ms and a dotted eighth 345.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 260.6. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 4.16 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 0.783 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 F 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 F major

Each of these differs from F 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 130 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41841.90.54
Half note29211.09
Dotted quarter1.5690.71.45
Quarter note (one beat)1460.52.17
Quarter triplet0.6673073.26
Dotted eighth0.75345.42.9
Eighth note0.5230.24.34
Eighth triplet0.333153.56.52
Dotted sixteenth0.375172.75.79
Sixteenth note0.25115.18.69
Sixteenth triplet0.16776.713.03
Thirty-second note0.12557.617.37

Half time 65.2 BPM · double time 260.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (460.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. You’re the First, the Last, My EverythingBarry WhiteF major130BPM
  2. Blue MondayNew OrderF major130BPM
  3. FameIrene CaraF major131BPM
  4. The Perfect KissNew OrderF major130BPM
  5. HowlFlorence + the MachineF major130BPM
  6. Always in My HeadColdplayF major130BPM
  7. AbacabGenesisF major131BPM
  8. Scream & Shoutwill.i.am feat. Britney SpearsF major130BPM
  9. Takin’ Care of BusinessBachman–Turner OverdriveF major130BPM
  10. Gold on the CeilingThe Black KeysF major130BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 130 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 130 BPMF major at 130–139 BPMPat Benatar

MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id 551417e9-d848-4e8e-bc29-8b02404ce207.