TempoPeek

Foo Fighters · The Colour and the Shape

Monkey Wrench

Monkey Wrench is in E major at 87.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

87 BPM · Andantemedian of 235 analyses · 87.1–172.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
235people who ran the extractor
One beat
688.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
1.89dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.944Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.183Essentia'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

235 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 235 readings; 55% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 87.1 to 172.3 BPM.

At 87.1 BPM one beat lasts 688.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 172.2 ms and a dotted eighth 516.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 174.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 cents above 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 1.89 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 0.944 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 87 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42755.50.36
Half note21377.70.73
Dotted quarter1.51033.30.97
Quarter note (one beat)1688.91.45
Quarter triplet0.667459.22.18
Dotted eighth0.75516.61.94
Eighth note0.5344.42.9
Eighth triplet0.333229.64.35
Dotted sixteenth0.375258.33.87
Sixteenth note0.25172.25.81
Sixteenth triplet0.167114.88.71
Thirty-second note0.12586.111.61

Half time 43.6 BPM · double time 174.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (688.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Thought I’d Died and Gone to HeavenBryan AdamsE major87BPM
  2. I Like ItDeBargeE major87BPM
  3. Tradin’ War Stories2Pac feat. Dramacydal, C‐Bo & StormE major87BPM
  4. Platypus (I Hate You)Green DayE major87BPM
  5. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny / MisirlouTim Roth and Amanda Plummer / Dick Dale and His Del‐TonesE major86BPM
  6. Me & Mr JonesAmy WinehouseE major88BPM
  7. Symptom of the UniverseBlack SabbathE major88BPM
  8. Walk of LifeDire StraitsE major86BPM
  9. Juke Box HeroForeignerE major88BPM
  10. I Love YouCéline DionE major89BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 87 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 87 BPME major at 80–89 BPMFoo Fighters

MusicBrainz collapses 198 recording ids into this one. Recording id 26502c24-e08c-45a0-a7b6-44f7471d7054.