Foo Fighters · Wasting Light

Dear Rosemary

Dear Rosemary is in E minor at 124 beats per minute.

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Tempo

124 BPM · Allegromedian of 162 analyses · 124–124.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
162people who ran the extractor
One beat
483.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.5dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.931Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.176Essentia'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

162 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 162 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 124 BPM one beat lasts 483.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121 ms and a dotted eighth 362.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62 BPM, counted twice as fast 248. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 cents above 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 2.5 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 0.931 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 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 E minor

Each of these differs from E 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 124 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41935.50.52
Half note2967.71.03
Dotted quarter1.5725.81.38
Quarter note (one beat)1483.92.07
Quarter triplet0.667322.63.1
Dotted eighth0.75362.92.76
Eighth note0.5241.94.13
Eighth triplet0.333161.36.2
Dotted sixteenth0.375181.55.51
Sixteenth note0.251218.27
Sixteenth triplet0.16780.612.4
Thirty-second note0.12560.516.53

Half time 62 BPM · double time 248 BPM. Every row is one beat (483.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Electric FuneralBlack SabbathE minor124BPM
  2. A Horse With No NameAmericaE minor124BPM
  3. Seven Nation ArmyThe White StripesE minor123BPM
  4. The Blood That Moves the Bodya‐haE minor123BPM
  5. Du hastRammsteinE minor125BPM
  6. Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)Cardi BE minor125BPM
  7. Eat the RichAerosmithE minor123BPM
  8. You’re All I’ve Got TonightThe CarsE minor123BPM
  9. The Sheltering SkyKing CrimsonE minor125BPM
  10. Step by StepNew Kids on the BlockE minor125BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 124 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 124 BPME minor at 120–129 BPMFoo Fighters

MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id 519fe3bc-9c6e-4e31-8e64-40d7bcb089b1.