The Who · Tommy
Sparks
Sparks is in D major at 136.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 131 analyses · 128.7–147 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 74%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 131people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 440.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.41dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.919Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.133Essentia'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
131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 74% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 52% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 128.7 to 147 BPM.
At 136.3 BPM one beat lasts 440.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.1 ms and a dotted eighth 330.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 272.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 cents above 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 2.41 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 0.919 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 136 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1760.8 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 880.4 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 660.3 | 1.51 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 440.2 | 2.27 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 293.5 | 3.41 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 330.2 | 3.03 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 220.1 | 4.54 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 146.7 | 6.82 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165.1 | 6.06 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.1 | 9.09 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.4 | 13.63 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55 | 18.17 |
Half time 68.2 BPM · double time 272.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (440.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- Raise Your HandsBon JoviD major136BPM
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- TomorrowAvril LavigneD major136BPM
- Lucy in the Sky With DiamondsThe BeatlesD major136BPM
- BitchThe Rolling StonesD major136BPM
- Mixed EmotionsThe Rolling StonesD major137BPM
- Problem ChildAC/DCD major136BPM
- Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your BoyFall Out BoyD major136BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 136 BPMD major at 130–139 BPMThe Who
MusicBrainz collapses 87 recording ids into this one. Recording id 649abe8d-714a-4d9b-9b20-3d56c2f036f4.