we all live in a YELLOW SUBMARINE - Meanspeed® Music neurotemporal - The Beatles

Meanspeed Music Summary
song title=”Yellow Submarine”
Words & Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
album=’Revolver’
Intellectual Property=© Copyright 1966 Northern Songs. All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.

In the Original Score of the Beatles’ catalog, it is noted that certain nuances of rhythm must be *felt* – they have not been noted. I hope to rectify this to some extent with charts such as that above, which illustrate:
1) the performance line of the song;
2) mean speed, most often the average tempo of the song;
3) moving average of the song;
4) line of advance of the song as a function of time, above as centiseconds on the first (left) Y-Axis;
5) trend line of the song as a third degree polynomial, formula courtesy of Microsoft Excel.

trials calibrated=9
beats measured=2,520
time elapsed, total=1,364.78 seconds
time elapsed, average per trial=151.64 seconds
average tempo/mean speed=110.8 beats per minute
average Beat Length=542 milliseconds
emotive class according to mean speed music theory found at http://www.meanspeed.com/graphs
most interesting element of the song unrelated to tempo=the song is in Db major, even though most popular sheet music simplifies this to D major. Playing it at this correct key changes the sound. The key is courtesy of the excellent Hal Leonard transcription.
most interesting rhyme=’ease’ with ‘need’ -

“So we live a life of ease,
every one of us has all we need…”

/ian andrew schneider/
meanspeed® music school-New Jersey Free School