TempoPeek

Foo Fighters · The Colour and the Shape

Hey, Johnny Park!

Hey, Johnny Park! is in D major at 84.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

85 BPM · Andantemedian of 199 analyses · 84.9–172.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
91%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
199people who ran the extractor
One beat
706.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.13dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.846Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.072Essentia'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

199 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 199 readings; 63% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 84.9 to 172.3 BPM.

At 84.9 BPM one beat lasts 706.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 176.7 ms and a dotted eighth 530 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 169.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.13 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 0.846 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 D 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 D major

Each of these differs from D 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 85 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42826.90.35
Half note21413.40.71
Dotted quarter1.51060.10.94
Quarter note (one beat)1706.71.42
Quarter triplet0.667471.12.12
Dotted eighth0.755301.89
Eighth note0.5353.42.83
Eighth triplet0.333235.64.25
Dotted sixteenth0.3752653.77
Sixteenth note0.25176.75.66
Sixteenth triplet0.167117.88.49
Thirty-second note0.12588.311.32

Half time 42.5 BPM · double time 169.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (706.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Romance in DurangoBob DylanD major85BPM
  2. Livin’ on the EdgeAerosmithD major85BPM
  3. Back in the U.S.A.Chuck BerryD major85BPM
  4. Hello SunshineAretha FranklinD major84BPM
  5. HarvestNeil YoungD major86BPM
  6. SimoriahAerosmithD major86BPM
  7. RoygbivBoards of CanadaD major84BPM
  8. Pictures of YouThe CureD major86BPM
  9. Next 100 YearsBon JoviD major84BPM
  10. Fade Away and RadiateBlondieD major84BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 85 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 85 BPMD major at 80–89 BPMFoo Fighters

MusicBrainz collapses 76 recording ids into this one. Recording id 816f734c-b603-4255-ad29-6fb14c9a4689.