expression category according to meanspeed music theory=foreboding
meanspeed/average tempo=117.9 beats per minute
average beat=0.509 seconds between beats, 2.04 seconds per measure
beat frequency=1.965 beats per second
Corresponding Pitch=251.52 Hertz
album=Sony Music 100 Years: Pop Music – The Golden Era 1951-1975
File Type=m4p
File Size=3.3 MB
File Kind=Protected AAC audio file
Bit rate=128 kbps
Sample rate=44.100 kHz

Graphs were generated by measuring groups of every common measure (four quarter-notes) ten times with Seiko 300-lap stopwatches where ten trials were averaged, coordinated and synthesized. For step by step easy method, click here or just pull from the the dropdown screen to your above left. Speed graphs were created in Microsoft’s Excel for MacIntosh 2004 on an Apple iBook G4.

Add, if you desire, the BPM on your iTunes by hitting CNTRL/I an filling in the blank. Jobs knows the tempos, though, right? Nope. Or, can you say, “save something” – I cannot tell.

Ian Schneider
May 27, 2008