Work out how long a piece of music will run before you record it. Enter your tempo in beats per minute, the number of bars, and the time signature, and this tool multiplies the beats per bar by the number of bars, then divides by the tempo to give a duration in minutes and seconds. This is exactly what you need when arranging to a fixed length, scoring to picture, planning a set, or building a click track and loop count. It also reports the total beat count and the length of a single bar in seconds, so you can slice an arrangement into sections. Because it uses real tempo math rather than a rough guess, the timing lines up with what a DAW will produce. Change the tempo, the bar count or the meter and the total recalculates instantly, letting you tune an arrangement to hit a target run time.
It needs the tempo, the number of bars and the time signature to work out how long a section or full track runs.
It finds the beats per bar from the time signature, multiplies by the number of bars, then divides by the tempo to get minutes and seconds.
Yes, enter the bar count for a single section to time that part, or the whole song to time the full track.
Work out how long a piece of music will run before you record it. Enter your tempo in beats per minute, the number of bars, and the time signature, and this tool multiplies the beats per bar by the number of bars, then divides by the tempo to give a duration in minutes and seconds.
Yes. Song Length Calculator is completely free, with no sign-up and no usage limits.
Yes. Song Length Calculator runs in any modern web browser. There is nothing to download or install.
Yes. Song Length Calculator runs entirely on your device in your browser, so nothing you enter is uploaded to a server.