The tempo mapping – the cataloging of the tempo, or speed, of each Beatles song on their album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band continues with the first track of the post-Revolver era of contemporary music. The opening song makes brilliant use tempo acceleration, as the song accelerates, in a sinusoidal way, from a section of renewal speed (85-89 bpm) to emthusiasm (90-97 bpm) to natural (98-105 bpm). The average tempo suitably sits in the middle of enthusiasm – could there be a better way to begin an album? For over 35 years total, Phil Collins and Pat Metheny, both huge fans of the Beatles, began their concerts at this speed – Phil with “Hand In Hand”at 96 bpm and the Pat Metheny Group with “Phase Dance” also dancing around this speed that is indicative of the musician having the most confident of anticipation.

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Meanspeed-Carlton Summary, supervised by James C.C. Manning
song title=Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club band
performer=The Beatles
composer=John Lennon & Paul McCartney

harmony=G major, while beginning on the secondary dominant A7 and ending on a C7 which leads into track 2, With A Little Help From My Friends in E major
average time per trial=1,064.7 seconds
beats per trial=170
average Beat=626 milliseconds
mean speed/average tempo=95.8 beats per minute
mean emotion=enthusiasm