Foo Fighters · Sonic Highways
Outside
Outside is in A minor at 110.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
111 BPM · Moderatomedian of 136 analyses · 110.5–166.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 136people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 543milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.22dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.902Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.098Essentia'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
136 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 136 readings; 80% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 110.5 to 166.4 BPM.
At 110.5 BPM one beat lasts 543 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 135.7 ms and a dotted eighth 407.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 221. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 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 3.22 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 0.902 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 A minor; 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A minor 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 111 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2171.9 | 0.46 |
| Half note | 2 | 1086 | 0.92 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 814.5 | 1.23 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 543 | 1.84 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 362 | 2.76 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 407.2 | 2.46 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 271.5 | 3.68 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 181 | 5.53 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 203.6 | 4.91 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 135.7 | 7.37 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 90.5 | 11.05 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 67.9 | 14.73 |
Half time 55.3 BPM · double time 221 BPM. Every row is one beat (543 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- My PrerogativeBobby BrownA minor110BPM
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- Own ItThe Black Eyed PeasA minor110BPM
- Touch MeThe DoorsA minor111BPM
- Tearin’ Up My Heart*NSYNCA minor110BPM
- SissyneckBeckA minor110BPM
- Another One Bites the DustQueenA minor110BPM
- Hip Hop StarBeyoncé feat. Big Boi & Sleepy BrownA minor111BPM
- xannyBillie EilishA minor110BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 111 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 111 BPMA minor at 110–119 BPMFoo Fighters
MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 35d8886c-3ffa-454d-b6a5-4932b5bc436a.