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Thunder
Thunder is in F major at 83.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
84 BPM · Andantemedian of 226 analyses · 83.9–84 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 226people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 715.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.04dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.874Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.057Essentia'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
226 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 226 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 83.9 BPM one beat lasts 715.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 178.8 ms and a dotted eighth 536.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42 BPM, counted twice as fast 167.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 4.04 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 0.874 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 84 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2860.5 | 0.35 |
| Half note | 2 | 1430.3 | 0.7 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1072.7 | 0.93 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 715.1 | 1.4 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 476.8 | 2.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 536.4 | 1.86 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 357.6 | 2.8 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 238.4 | 4.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 268.2 | 3.73 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 178.8 | 5.59 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 119.2 | 8.39 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 89.4 | 11.19 |
Half time 42 BPM · double time 167.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (715.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Bulls on ParadeRage Against the MachineF major84BPM
- What You Get Is What You SeeTina TurnerF major84BPM
- At This MomentMichael BubléF major84BPM
- MockingbirdEminemF major85BPM
- Stay With MeSam SmithF major85BPM
- Do I Wanna Know?Arctic MonkeysF major85BPM
- XOBeyoncéF major85BPM
- Over the RainbowIsrael KamakawiwoʻoleF major85BPM
- My Love Is Your LoveWhitney HoustonF major83BPM
- Rock the HouseGorillazF major86BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 84 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 84 BPMF major at 80–89 BPMImagine Dragons
MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 2199bf89-2583-4368-8f85-3b0bb8f994d4.