TempoPeek

Foo Fighters · Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

Long Road to Ruin

Long Road to Ruin is in C major at 146.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

147 BPM · Allegromedian of 283 analyses · 146.2–146.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
80%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
283people who ran the extractor
One beat
409.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.7Hz · -5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.01dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.898Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.003Essentia'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

283 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 80% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 283 readings; 89% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 146.6 BPM one beat lasts 409.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.3 ms and a dotted eighth 307 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 293.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.7 Hz, which is 5 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 3.01 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 0.898 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 147 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41637.10.61
Half note2818.61.22
Dotted quarter1.5613.91.63
Quarter note (one beat)1409.32.44
Quarter triplet0.667272.93.67
Dotted eighth0.753073.26
Eighth note0.5204.64.89
Eighth triplet0.333136.47.33
Dotted sixteenth0.375153.56.52
Sixteenth note0.25102.39.77
Sixteenth triplet0.16768.214.66
Thirty-second note0.12551.219.55

Half time 73.3 BPM · double time 293.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (409.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. More Than She KnowsSpin DoctorsC major147BPM
  2. More BluesPink FloydC major147BPM
  3. When I Was Your ManBruno MarsC major146BPM
  4. A Whiter Shade of PaleAnnie LennoxC major146BPM
  5. Tomorrow Never CameLana Del Rey ft. Sean Ono LennonC major146BPM
  6. I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your LoveChicagoC major146BPM
  7. TimeDavid BowieC major148BPM
  8. Splish SplashBobby DarinC major148BPM
  9. Don’t CryAsiaC major148BPM
  10. The Long Black VeilJohnny CashC major148BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 147 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 147 BPMC major at 140–149 BPMFoo Fighters

MusicBrainz collapses 26 recording ids into this one. Recording id 49b7fbd1-cfa0-459c-a3ca-1e8c3f7d0a8d.