Foo Fighters · The Colour and the Shape
February Stars
February Stars is in G major at 152 beats per minute.
Tempo
152 BPM · Allegromedian of 144 analyses · 138.2–152.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 144people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 394.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 8.51dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.35Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.95Essentia'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
144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 88% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 138.2 to 152.1 BPM.
At 152 BPM one beat lasts 394.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.7 ms and a dotted eighth 296.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76 BPM, counted twice as fast 304. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 8.51 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 0.35 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 152 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1578.9 | 0.63 |
| Half note | 2 | 789.5 | 1.27 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 592.1 | 1.69 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 394.7 | 2.53 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 263.2 | 3.8 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 296.1 | 3.38 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 197.4 | 5.07 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 131.6 | 7.6 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 148 | 6.76 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 98.7 | 10.13 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 65.8 | 15.2 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.3 | 20.27 |
Half time 76 BPM · double time 304 BPM. Every row is one beat (394.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 152 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 152 BPMG major at 150–159 BPMFoo Fighters
MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id d413e767-4457-4279-9b14-b91cc9b99d0b.