Foo Fighters · The Colour and the Shape

New Way Home

New Way Home is in D major at 139.2 beats per minute.

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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 valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41724.10.58
Half note2862.11.16
Dotted quarter1.5646.61.55
Quarter note (one beat)14312.32
Quarter triplet0.667287.43.48
Dotted eighth0.75323.33.09
Eighth note0.5215.54.64
Eighth triplet0.333143.76.96
Dotted sixteenth0.375161.66.19
Sixteenth note0.25107.89.28
Sixteenth triplet0.16771.813.92
Thirty-second note0.12553.918.56

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

  1. Anyway, Anyhow, AnywhereDavid BowieD major139BPM
  2. Summer of ’69Bryan AdamsD major139BPM
  3. Winter’s WaltzTim DaviesD major140BPM
  4. Say SomethingA Great Big World & Christina AguileraD major140BPM
  5. Space Age Love SongA Flock of SeagullsD major140BPM
  6. Goodbye to RomanceOzzy OsbourneD major140BPM
  7. LeningradBilly JoelD major139BPM
  8. PorcelainRed Hot Chili PeppersD major140BPM
  9. Extraordinary GirlGreen DayD major138BPM
  10. 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.