153 BPM
153 beats per minute is one beat every 392.16 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 153.
Updated 2026-10-17
153 BPM
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Beat, bar and phrase lengths at 153 BPM
At 153 BPM one beat lasts 392.16 ms and a 4/4 bar lasts 1.569 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 2.55 beats per second, or 38.25 bars of 4/4 per minute.
Dance tracks are usually arranged in 8-, 16- and 32-bar phrases. At 153 BPM a 16-bar phrase takes 25.1 s and a 32-bar intro or outro takes 50.2 s. That is 6.9 s shorter than the same 16 bars at 120 BPM. A six-minute track at this tempo contains about 230 bars.
| Length | Time | Milliseconds |
|---|---|---|
| 1 beat | 0.392 s | 392.16 ms |
| 1 bar (4 beats) | 1.569 s | 1568.63 ms |
| 4 bars | 6.275 s | 6274.51 ms |
| 8 bars | 12.55 s | 12549.02 ms |
| 16 bars | 25.1 s | 25098.04 ms |
| 32 bars | 50.2 s | 50196.08 ms |
| 64 bars | 1:40.4 min | 100392.16 ms |
Delay times at 153 BPM
Straight values follow the beat; dotted values are 1.5 times as long and triplets are two-thirds as long. At 153 BPM the popular dotted-eighth delay is 294.12 ms and a quarter-note slapback is 392.16 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) | 1568.63 ms | 2352.94 ms | 1045.75 ms | 0.638 Hz |
| 1/2 | 784.31 ms | 1176.47 ms | 522.88 ms | 1.275 Hz |
| 1/4 (one beat) | 392.16 ms | 588.24 ms | 261.44 ms | 2.55 Hz |
| 1/8 | 196.08 ms | 294.12 ms | 130.72 ms | 5.1 Hz |
| 1/16 | 98.04 ms | 147.06 ms | 65.36 ms | 10.2 Hz |
| 1/32 | 49.02 ms | 73.53 ms | 32.68 ms | 20.4 Hz |
Reverb times at 153 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 153 BPM a 1/64-note pre-delay is 24.51 ms and a 1/32-note pre-delay is 49.02 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 | 24.51 ms | 392.16 ms |
| Medium plate on vocals | 49.02 ms | 784.31 ms |
| Large hall or pad wash | 49.02 ms | 1568.63 ms |
| Ambient tail over two bars | 98.04 ms | 3137.25 ms |
Genres at 153 BPM
153 BPM is in the up-tempo, high-energy range. It sits in the middle of the hardstyle range (145–160).
Heard at half-time (76.5 BPM) it lines up with ambient/downtempo, hip-hop and reggae/dub. 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.
- Hardstyle: typically 145–160 BPM — most releases sit near 150.
Mixing into 153 BPM
To bring a track at another tempo up or down to 153 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 153 BPM reaches 140.8–165.2 BPM; a ±16 % range reaches 128.5–177.5 BPM.
| Track tempo | Pitch change to reach 153 | Key shift without key lock |
|---|---|---|
| 147 BPM | +4.08 % | +0.69 st |
| 149 BPM | +2.68 % | +0.46 st |
| 151 BPM | +1.32 % | +0.23 st |
| 152 BPM | +0.66 % | +0.11 st |
| 154 BPM | −0.65 % | −0.11 st |
| 155 BPM | −1.29 % | −0.22 st |
| 157 BPM | −2.55 % | −0.45 st |
| 159 BPM | −3.77 % | −0.67 st |
Half-time, double-time and nearby tempos
Half-time of 153 BPM is 76.5 BPM and double-time is 306 BPM.
306 BPM is outside the 60–200 range of these pages; the half/double-time converter works with any value.
76.5 BPM falls between two whole tempos, so the nearest pages, 76 and 77 BPM, are linked instead.
Each 1 BPM step at this tempo changes the beat by about 2.55 ms, so neighbouring tempos are close enough to beatmatch with a small pitch move.
Frequently asked questions
- How many milliseconds is one beat at 153 BPM?
- One beat (a quarter note) at 153 BPM is 60,000 ÷ 153 = 392.16 ms. A 4/4 bar is four beats, 1568.63 ms.
- What is the dotted eighth delay time at 153 BPM?
- A dotted 1/8 delay at 153 BPM is 294.12 ms: an eighth note (196.08 ms) multiplied by 1.5. A straight quarter-note delay is 392.16 ms and a quarter-note triplet is 261.44 ms.
- What genre is 153 BPM?
- Hardstyle commonly uses 153 BPM. Genre ranges overlap, so the drum pattern and sound decide the style more than the number does.
- What is 153 BPM in Hz?
- 153 BPM is 2.55 Hz when one cycle equals one beat. An LFO synced to one bar runs at 0.6375 Hz, and one synced to sixteenth notes at 10.2 Hz.