JEFF SCHNEIDER, BRONZE STAR CAPTAIN, U.S. ARMY, THREE TOURS IN IRAQ, ONE TOUR IN BOSNIA

the pride of the Schneider’s of Texas and the Schneider’s of the United States in general.






The mean-speed, or the speed of the My Hometown as live “Unleashed” expressed as beats per minute on this live recording= 71.4 beats per minute.
The mean-space, or time of My Hometown as live “Unleashed” between each beat= 840 milliseconds.
The mean-beat of My Hometown as live “Unleashed”on the recording = 1.19 beats per seocnd.
The mean-frequency, the speed of My Hometown as live “Unleashed” as cycles per second= 1.19 Hertz.
The mean-tone= 304.64 Hertz in equal temperament, 42 cents above D4=293.665 Hertz, and 58 cents below D#4/Eb4=311.127 Hertz.

Captain Jeff Schneider of Texas, who introduced me to the music of Charlie Robison, pictured above at the outdoor Schneider basketball arena (patio) just a few years before he joined the infantry, was kind enough to send me the live version of My Hometown along with twelve other Texas iTunes tunes.
In regard to what Jeff thinks of this song while thinking about Home while in the midst of the Iraq war: he was wrote a bit about that, and you can read it on yesterday’s blog, July 8th, 2006. At the time of his last tour, Jeff left for a time his wife Meredith– 3 months pregnant, and his son Benjamin, 2 1/2 years old. Before Jeff‘s daughter was born, he was in Iraq and the Humvee convoy which he was on stopped for a few minutes for a quick cat nap. While sleeping three-quarter-eyed under his Humvee, a mortar was fired in his direction, and missed by, well, not very much–the pressure of the round was felt. The Presence of the Lord was felt indeed! Hence Meredith and Jeff’s daughter’s name: Faith.

Everyone seems to have enjoyed My Hometown, and today’s 5 graphs do two things: (1) illustrate the live version alone and (2) compare the live version to the studio version.

Best,
Ian Schneider,
NY, New York
June 4, 2008