John Mayer, BACK TO YOU
A cognitive music tempo look starts by indicating that all chart are contiguously calibrated and vouched for by meanspeed music labs. the method I used is exactly as that described in simple detail on both meanspeedmusic.com and meanspeed.com/methodology. The meanemotion concept is mine. It is not perfect, but it is an attempt at describing in one word – which would include all shared meaning elements thereof – the emotion that has been shown to be the most likely found at the same speed range.
102 bpm is just a comfort speed. Cognitively, it is almost impossible to play a song at this speed that is ill at ease.
The exceptions prove the rule in this range! The Marvin Gaye classics, WHAT’S GOIN‘ ON and MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY), as well as the 10,000 Maniacs WHAT’S THE MATTER HERE and Phil Collins’ ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE sing of themes of social destruction, environmental disaster, child beating and homelessness respectively. They sit squarely in the speed range I call comfort, 98-105 bpm, approximately. What gives?
What gives is the old saying that “anyone one Else’s pain is bearable.” One can listen to the melody of the song alone, and another can read the lyrics as text as poetry. We can easily guess that those who read the songs as pure silent text would come away saying, “That writer was emoting the destruction of the human race.” The person who just hears the melody will say, “I don’t know what the topic was but they were content and natural in their emotion embodied in the music performance, in other words, they were *comfortable* in their cognition and musical delivery.
Seen are two charts representing these frequencies from the John Mayer recording, available on iTunes and elsewhere, Back To You.
mean speed=102.0 beats per minute
mean emotion=comfort
mean beat=1.70 beats per second
mean space=588 milliseconds per beat
mean space=2353 milliseconds per measure
mean pulse=1.70 cycles per second
mean pitch=435.2 Hertz, 89 cents above Ab4=415.305 Hertz and 11 cents below A4=440.000 Hertz.
Ian Andrew Schneider
July 18, 2008
happy birthday p.a., Esq.!
