Guiding Lights
30s preview
- BPM
- 164
- Half-time
- 82
- Open Key
- 5m
- Energy
- 92/100
- Pop
- 37/100
- Length
- 4:24
- Released
- 2025
- Genre
- Drum N Bass
- Loudness
- -5.9 dB
- Dynamics
- 9.6 dB
- ISRC
- AULI02561510
- Explicit
- Yes
Key, BPM and audio features: model-based audio analysis · how we measure · catalogue updated July 2026
Guiding Lights runs 164 BPM in D♭ minor (12A), a very fast drum n bass record. The feel is dark and driving. It is vocal-led. Its spectrum is weighted to the sub and kick, with a heavy low end. Better known than 77% of Pendulum's catalogue. For programming, treat it as a high-intensity peak cut.
- Low end:
- more bass-heavy than 75% of Pendulum's catalogue
Sonic profile
Frequency spectrum
amplitude · bass → treble
- 34%
- Low
- 30-130 Hz
- 27%
- Low-mid
- 130-570 Hz
- 22%
- Upper-mid
- 570 Hz-2.5 kHz
- 16%
- High
- 2.5-11 kHz
FAQ
What key is Guiding Lights in?
Guiding Lights by Pendulum is in D♭ minor, or 12A on the Camelot wheel.
What BPM is Guiding Lights?
Guiding Lights runs at 164 BPM, a very fast track.
What mixes well with Guiding Lights?
From 12A it blends harmonically with 1A, 12B, 11A. Moving to 1A lifts the energy a step.
Is Guiding Lights good for peak time?
With energy 92 out of 100 at 164 BPM, it works best as a high-intensity peak cut.
Mixes harmonically
12A → 11A · 1A · 12BFrom 12A, 1A (A♭ minor) lifts the energy a step; 12B (E major) brightens to the relative major; 11A (F♯ minor) cools the energy down a step.
How to mix it
In 12A at 164 BPM: 1A (A♭ minor) — move to 1A to push the floor harder; 12B (E major) — switch to 12B for a mood change without losing the groove; 11A (F♯ minor) — drop to 11A to bring the room down gently.
Pitch range at ±6%: 154-174 BPM — anything in that window beatmatches without sounding stretched.
Key on the fader: without key lock (Master Tempo on CDJs), above roughly +5% it plays a semitone higher, so treat it as 7A rather than 12A; below -5% it reads as 5A. With key lock on, it stays 12A across the whole range.
Programming: a high-intensity peak cut.
Similar tempo
Within ±3 BPM of 164 — beatmatch without a big tempo pull.
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