Foo Fighters · One by One
Come Back
Come Back is in E major at 89.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
89 BPM · Andantemedian of 147 analyses · 88.7–89.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 147people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 673.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.06dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.833Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.009Essentia's danceability, 0–3
Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.
What the numbers say
147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 89.1 BPM one beat lasts 673.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 168.4 ms and a dotted eighth 505.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 178.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.06 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.833 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.
10 other recordings here are in E major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.
Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Keys that fit with E major
Each of these differs from E major by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.
Delay times at 89 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2693.6 | 0.37 |
| Half note | 2 | 1346.8 | 0.74 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1010.1 | 0.99 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 673.4 | 1.49 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 448.9 | 2.23 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 505.1 | 1.98 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 336.7 | 2.97 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 224.5 | 4.46 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 252.5 | 3.96 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 168.4 | 5.94 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 112.2 | 8.91 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 84.2 | 11.88 |
Half time 44.6 BPM · double time 178.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (673.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- Telemiscommunicationsdeadmau5 & Imogen HeapE major90BPM
- Love It If We Made ItThe 1975E major90BPM
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- Jump on My ShouldersAWOLNATIONE major90BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 89 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 89 BPME major at 80–89 BPMFoo Fighters
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id bbdb70cc-6a74-47b6-a894-3764d6947a4b.