TempoPeek

Foo Fighters · Foo Fighters

This Is a Call

This Is a Call is in E major at 163.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

164 BPM · Vivacemedian of 267 analyses · 163.4–163.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
267people who ran the extractor
One beat
367milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.27dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.951Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.04Essentia'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

267 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 267 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 163.5 BPM one beat lasts 367 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91.7 ms and a dotted eighth 275.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 81.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 327. A score would mark that Vivace, 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 3.27 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 0.951 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 164 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41467.90.68
Half note2733.91.36
Dotted quarter1.5550.51.82
Quarter note (one beat)13672.73
Quarter triplet0.667244.64.09
Dotted eighth0.75275.23.63
Eighth note0.5183.55.45
Eighth triplet0.333122.38.18
Dotted sixteenth0.375137.67.27
Sixteenth note0.2591.710.9
Sixteenth triplet0.16761.216.35
Thirty-second note0.12545.921.8

Half time 81.8 BPM · double time 327 BPM. Every row is one beat (367 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Where Is My Mind?PixiesE major164BPM
  2. All This and Heaven TooFlorence + the MachineE major164BPM
  3. Honey Don’tThe BeatlesE major163BPM
  4. For Whom the Bell TollsBee GeesE major164BPM
  5. 6060–842The B‐52sE major164BPM
  6. Safe From HarmMassive AttackE major165BPM
  7. Love So RightBee GeesE major162BPM
  8. That's Just the Woman in MeCéline DionE major165BPM
  9. SoupBlind MelonE major162BPM
  10. Party Out of BoundsThe B‐52sE major162BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 164 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 164 BPME major at 160–169 BPMFoo Fighters

MusicBrainz collapses 193 recording ids into this one. Recording id 656bc0a1-4506-4a4a-bc1b-924311bd8e1e.