ese speed charts represent the speed performance of the artist once known as Cat Stevens–now Mr. Yusef Islam: “OH VERY YOUNG.”

Meanspeed/aveage tempo=110.8 beats per minute.
Average beat= 542 milliseconds.
Mean slow phase, or the speed of the song expressed as cycles per second= 1.847 Hertz .
The corresponding pitch= 472.75 Hertz.
The graphs were generated, exactly, with the method described in these pages. You can recreate the graph by following the directions on the dropdown screen. You can also just print it out – or if you go spreashet bezerk, like, well, anyway, if you are a spreadsheet person, feel free to contact me for th eoriginal excel 5.0 file.

Ian Andrew Schneider

James C.C. Manning

Sarah Jane Bristol

Mikael “The Spike” McKnight

courtesy of Meredith and US Army Bronze Star Captain Jeff Schneider of TexasRoast.com.