Led Zeppelin · [Led Zeppelin IV]
Four Sticks
Four Sticks is in A major at 142.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
143 BPM · Allegromedian of 278 analyses · 142.8–143.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 278people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 419.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.88dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.905Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.16Essentia'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
278 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 278 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 142.9 BPM one beat lasts 419.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105 ms and a dotted eighth 314.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 285.8. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 2.88 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 0.905 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 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 143 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1679.5 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 839.7 | 1.19 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 629.8 | 1.59 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 419.9 | 2.38 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 279.9 | 3.57 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 314.9 | 3.18 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 209.9 | 4.76 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 140 | 7.15 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 157.5 | 6.35 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 105 | 9.53 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 70 | 14.29 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.5 | 19.05 |
Half time 71.5 BPM · double time 285.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (419.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Oliver’s ArmyElvis Costello & The AttractionsA major143BPM
- (I’m Always Touched by Your) Presence, DearBlondieA major143BPM
- Fashion VictimGreen DayA major143BPM
- Draw the LineAerosmithA major143BPM
- How Many More TimesLed ZeppelinA major143BPM
- QuicksilverPink FloydA major143BPM
- Telephone LineElectric Light OrchestraA major144BPM
- My ImmortalEvanescenceA major144BPM
- He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My BrotherNeil DiamondA major142BPM
- Crawling Back to YouBackstreet BoysA major142BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 143 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 143 BPMA major at 140–149 BPMLed Zeppelin
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id c5da2d84-c7d2-4bee-9416-a94394b11af1.