Foo Fighters · The Colour and the Shape
New Way Home
New Way Home is in D major at 139.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
139 BPM · Allegromedian of 189 analyses · 138.9–139.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 58%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 189people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 431milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.47dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.771Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.977Essentia'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
189 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 58% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 189 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 139.2 BPM one beat lasts 431 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 107.8 ms and a dotted eighth 323.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 69.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 278.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 6.47 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 0.771 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 139 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1724.1 | 0.58 |
| Half note | 2 | 862.1 | 1.16 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 646.6 | 1.55 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 431 | 2.32 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 287.4 | 3.48 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 323.3 | 3.09 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 215.5 | 4.64 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 143.7 | 6.96 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 161.6 | 6.19 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 107.8 | 9.28 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 71.8 | 13.92 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.9 | 18.56 |
Half time 69.6 BPM · double time 278.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (431 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Anyway, Anyhow, AnywhereDavid BowieD major139BPM
- Summer of ’69Bryan AdamsD major139BPM
- Winter’s WaltzTim DaviesD major140BPM
- Say SomethingA Great Big World & Christina AguileraD major140BPM
- Space Age Love SongA Flock of SeagullsD major140BPM
- Goodbye to RomanceOzzy OsbourneD major140BPM
- LeningradBilly JoelD major139BPM
- PorcelainRed Hot Chili PeppersD major140BPM
- Extraordinary GirlGreen DayD major138BPM
- Thank You GirlThe BeatlesD major138BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 139 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 139 BPMD major at 130–139 BPMFoo Fighters
MusicBrainz collapses 25 recording ids into this one. Recording id 94be4218-63d7-4eed-856b-d996477fade5.