Hardstyle BPM

How fast, and who says so

Both sources settle on about 150 BPM:

• Native Instruments, How to make a hardstyle track (2024): 150–160 BPM
• eMastered, How to Make Hardstyle Music (2024): 145–150 BPM

The groove on this page

Hardstyle is a kick genre. The kick is distorted until it has a pitch and a long tail, and it carries the track as much as the lead does. Here it plays on every beat at 150, with a sub bass on D2 (73 Hz) on each offbeat, where the reverse bass of early hardstyle sat, a clap on two and four and 8th hats so the tempo is easy to tap. At 150 a beat lasts 400 ms: the kick and its tail have to fit inside it before the next one lands.

On this page: the app's Deep kit at 150 BPM, straight 16ths, with the Sub bass sound.

Delay and LFO values

A delay in time with the track repeats once per note value: a quarter note lasts 60,000 divided by the BPM, in milliseconds. Dotted is one and a half times that, triplet two thirds. An LFO synced to a note value cycles at 1,000 divided by those milliseconds, in Hz. The table follows the tempo above: − and + move it, and so does a tempo you tap.

Genres near this tempo

• Trance: 130–150 BPM
• Breakbeat: 110–175 BPM
• Psytrance: 138–148 BPM
• Trap: 130–176 BPM

All twenty genres on one axis, with 150 BPM marked: the BPM chart.

Hardstyle BPM by style

Sources: Hard Cultr’s hardstyle and hardcore guides (2026) give 145 to 160 with 150 as the standard and hardcore at 150 to 200; Hardstyle.com puts hardcore at 160 to 200 and uptempo often past 200; Technomag’s 2023 guide gives hardstyle 150 to 160; Hard Cultr adds that modern rawstyle can climb to 160 or 170. Technomag also calls rawstyle slower than hardstyle. It is the other way round. Hardstyle.com also lists UK and happy hardcore, from early-1990s Britain, fast with uplifting melodies, among the harder styles. The pad above counts 147 to 153 as hardstyle, the sources’ common ground; a raw track at 155 or an early one at 140 reads as faster or slower, and it is still hardstyle.

Why 150?

Hardstyle came out of hard trance and hard house at around 140 and settled at 150 in the mid-2000s, as the kick grew its long distorted tail. A tail and an offbeat bass both have to fit inside one beat: 400 ms at 150, 375 ms at 160, 333 ms at 180. Hardcore, the older Rotterdam cousin, kept getting faster; hardstyle kept the tail and the melody. To check a track by ear: 25 kicks in ten seconds is 150.

Most hardstyle is produced at 150, but many DJs, raw ones above all, play their sets at 155 and pitch the 150 tracks up; the kicks are tuned to each track’s key, so the mixing question is whether two kicks clash. Going from 150 into rawstyle at 155 is +3.3 %; down to trance at 140 is −6.7 %.

What genre is 150 BPM?

Hardstyle, first of all, and the top of jumpstyle. Hard techno and mainstream hardcore (Hard Cultr: 150 to 165) start there too. Trap and drill beats written at 150 are felt at 75 (trap BPM).

Hardstyle songs at 150 BPM

The “150 BPM hardstyle” playlists that rank on Google are built from tracks like Headhunterz’ “Destiny”, Coone and Jelle van Dael’s “Superman”, Brennan Heart and Jonathan Mendelsohn’s “Be Here Now”, Da Tweekaz’ “Jägermeister” and D-Block & S-te-Fan’s “God Is a DJ”. The 150+ ones add the raw side: Sub Zero Project, Rebelion, D-Sturb. Q-dance’s Qlimax (since 2000) and Defqon.1 (since 2003) are the genre’s home festivals.

What genre is faster than hardstyle?

Hardcore runs 160 to 200, frenchcore and uptempo 180 to 220, speedcore past 300, and extratone, by definition, past 3,600 BPM. Somewhere around 1,200 BPM, kicks come 20 times a second and stop sounding like separate hits; they blur into a buzz. “1000 BPM hardstyle” is a meme on that edge, and 10,000 BPM would be a tone of 167 Hz, close to E3: a note, not a beat. Hard techno shares hardstyle’s 145 to 160 but has no reverse bass and no big melody; its low end is a rumble under a short kick (techno BPM).

Then make something of it

The door opens Brumm at the tempo on screen, with the swing off, and the app names the tempo once on its start screen. Its range is 90 to 150 BPM, and a tempo above 150 goes in at half, never below 90, so a tapped 155 opens at 90. For a rawstyle tempo, step down to 150 with − before you open it, hum the lead there and speed the track up later in your DAW. No account, no upload: the tempo travels inside the link. Tap Play, hum a line over the beat, and it becomes an instrument.

Nothing is recorded: no microphone, only your taps, counted in the browser. The groove's sounds are the app's own samples, fetched when you tap Play. How the site counts visits.