beats per minute graph - Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles - time-velocity chart by meanspeed music school I

beats per minute graph - Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles - time-velocity chart by meanspeed music school II

As far as the “what is in it for me to learn an unproven music theory” factor, know that this song by Vanessa Carlton can be applied on your own mood.  Using the James N Neumann Standard Tempo Scale, you can see that this song by Carlton is right in the middle of a range of speed, approximately 90-97 beats per minute, that has been recorded on a metronomic click which does not budge from approximately 95 beats per minute.  If you look at songs at this speed, such as those songs on the lists provided on meanspeed music home page, it is predictable that songs at 95 bpm will emote confident enthusiasm and controlled exuberance.  Performed in the rare pop music key of B major, where Vanessa uses a tricky E->F#->D#->E bass loop in her left hand that is, in my opinion, elegantly cool in its simplicity.

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary

song title=”A Thousand Miles”

performer=Vanessa Carlton

standard tempo/mean speed/average velocity=94.9 beats per minute

average beat=0.632 seconds mean-emotion according to the meanspeeed music conjecture=enthusiasm

The meanspeed music conjecture is outlined on the scale below, produced by James N Neumann

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revised and extended on 6/8/2009