131 BPM
131 beats per minute is one beat every 458.02 ms. Below: bar and phrase lengths, delay and reverb times, LFO rates, the genres that use this tempo, and the pitch change needed to mix in from nearby tempos. Start the metronome or tap along to a track to check it is really 131.
Updated 2026-10-17
131 BPM
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Beat, bar and phrase lengths at 131 BPM
At 131 BPM one beat lasts 458.02 ms and a 4/4 bar lasts 1.832 s. The beat is not a whole number of milliseconds, so round to the nearest 0.1 ms when you type times in by hand, or use your plugin's tempo sync. That is 2.183 beats per second, or 32.75 bars of 4/4 per minute.
Dance tracks are usually arranged in 8-, 16- and 32-bar phrases. At 131 BPM a 16-bar phrase takes 29.31 s and a 32-bar intro or outro takes 58.63 s. That is 2.69 s shorter than the same 16 bars at 120 BPM. A six-minute track at this tempo contains about 197 bars.
| Length | Time | Milliseconds |
|---|---|---|
| 1 beat | 0.458 s | 458.02 ms |
| 1 bar (4 beats) | 1.832 s | 1832.06 ms |
| 4 bars | 7.328 s | 7328.24 ms |
| 8 bars | 14.66 s | 14656.49 ms |
| 16 bars | 29.31 s | 29312.98 ms |
| 32 bars | 58.63 s | 58625.95 ms |
| 64 bars | 1:57.3 min | 117251.91 ms |
Delay times at 131 BPM
Straight values follow the beat; dotted values are 1.5 times as long and triplets are two-thirds as long. At 131 BPM the popular dotted-eighth delay is 343.51 ms and a quarter-note slapback is 458.02 ms. The Hz column is the matching rate for an LFO, tremolo or auto-pan synced to the straight note.
| Note | Straight | Dotted | Triplet | Rate (straight) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/1 (one 4/4 bar) | 1832.06 ms | 2748.09 ms | 1221.37 ms | 0.546 Hz |
| 1/2 | 916.03 ms | 1374.05 ms | 610.69 ms | 1.092 Hz |
| 1/4 (one beat) | 458.02 ms | 687.02 ms | 305.34 ms | 2.183 Hz |
| 1/8 | 229.01 ms | 343.51 ms | 152.67 ms | 4.367 Hz |
| 1/16 | 114.5 ms | 171.76 ms | 76.34 ms | 8.733 Hz |
| 1/32 | 57.25 ms | 85.88 ms | 38.17 ms | 17.467 Hz |
Reverb times at 131 BPM
A common way to keep a reverb in time is to tie its pre-delay to a short note value and let the tail fade within a longer one. At 131 BPM a 1/64-note pre-delay is 28.63 ms and a 1/32-note pre-delay is 57.25 ms.
The decay control on most reverbs is RT60, the time it takes the tail to fall by 60 dB, so the audible tail ends earlier than the number shown. Treat these values as starting points and adjust by ear.
| Reverb character | Pre-delay | Decay (RT60) |
|---|---|---|
| Tight room on drums | 28.63 ms | 458.02 ms |
| Medium plate on vocals | 57.25 ms | 916.03 ms |
| Large hall or pad wash | 57.25 ms | 1832.06 ms |
| Ambient tail over two bars | 114.5 ms | 3664.12 ms |
Genres at 131 BPM
131 BPM is squarely in the most common club and dance-music range. It sits in the middle of the UK garage/breakbeat range (125–140), near the low end of the techno range (125–150) and near the low end of the trance range (128–145).
Heard at half-time (65.5 BPM) it lines up with ambient/downtempo. A detector or a tag in your library may report either reading, so check by ear which one the drums suggest.
These ranges are common practice rather than rules: genre is decided by rhythm, sound and scene as much as by tempo, and plenty of tracks sit outside the usual numbers.
- UK garage/breakbeat: typically 125–140 BPM — shuffled and broken drums can make the count ambiguous.
- Techno: typically 125–150 BPM — from restrained 125 to fast, hard styles near 150.
- Trance: typically 128–145 BPM — a regular kick usually gives a clear pulse.
Mixing into 131 BPM
To bring a track at another tempo up or down to 131 BPM, move its pitch fader by the percentage below. Without key lock the key moves too, by the number of semitones shown; about 6 % is one semitone, so changes beyond that are where key lock (master tempo) starts to matter.
A ±8 % pitch fader on a track at 131 BPM reaches 120.5–141.5 BPM; a ±16 % range reaches 110–152 BPM.
| Track tempo | Pitch change to reach 131 | Key shift without key lock |
|---|---|---|
| 125 BPM | +4.8 % | +0.81 st |
| 127 BPM | +3.15 % | +0.54 st |
| 129 BPM | +1.55 % | +0.27 st |
| 130 BPM | +0.77 % | +0.13 st |
| 132 BPM | −0.76 % | −0.13 st |
| 133 BPM | −1.5 % | −0.26 st |
| 135 BPM | −2.96 % | −0.52 st |
| 137 BPM | −4.38 % | −0.78 st |
Half-time, double-time and nearby tempos
Half-time of 131 BPM is 65.5 BPM and double-time is 262 BPM.
262 BPM is outside the 60–200 range of these pages; the half/double-time converter works with any value.
65.5 BPM falls between two whole tempos, so the nearest pages, 65 and 66 BPM, are linked instead.
Each 1 BPM step at this tempo changes the beat by about 3.47 ms, so neighbouring tempos are close enough to beatmatch with a small pitch move.
Frequently asked questions
- How many milliseconds is one beat at 131 BPM?
- One beat (a quarter note) at 131 BPM is 60,000 ÷ 131 = 458.02 ms. A 4/4 bar is four beats, 1832.06 ms.
- What is the dotted eighth delay time at 131 BPM?
- A dotted 1/8 delay at 131 BPM is 343.51 ms: an eighth note (229.01 ms) multiplied by 1.5. A straight quarter-note delay is 458.02 ms and a quarter-note triplet is 305.34 ms.
- What genre is 131 BPM?
- UK garage/breakbeat, techno and trance commonly use 131 BPM. Genre ranges overlap, so the drum pattern and sound decide the style more than the number does.
- What is 131 BPM in Hz?
- 131 BPM is 2.1833 Hz when one cycle equals one beat. An LFO synced to one bar runs at 0.5458 Hz, and one synced to sixteenth notes at 8.733 Hz.