One of the most well-known songs of renewal in the late 20th Century was the song HEART OF THE MATTER by former Eagles lead singer and drummer Mr. Donald "Don" Henley.
tempo graphics © 2008. Meanspeed Music Company. Use By Permission.
Heart of the Matter is recorded on top of a drum machine which is playing at almost exactly 88 beats per minute.
The meanspeed music conjecture has asserted that songs in the tempo range of 85-89 beats per minute have a strong tendency to emote renewal, forgiveness and homecoming. Such patterns are vividly seen on the tempo graphs I have synthesized and presented here with the the drama of the actors
and
Jennifer Gareis
(2006-present) , making the point for me better than I write and FAR better than I photograph! In renewing their lives on the world's most popular television drama,
CBS's THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, Donna and Eric got down to the heart of the matter and then got in bed legally as man and wife. The issue in the story line is that Eric's heart is 65-70 years old and Donna's is 35-40 years old, a possible cause of Eric's heart giving out after a Viagra-induced sex marathon. He still lays in fictional real time in that same Los Angeles hospital at which thank-God-at-least-she's-still-alive Elizabeth Taylor always visits people.
No, there is nothing funny about a man in a coma. Not even when that coma is inspired by the rabidly creative yet macho character Eric Forrester. However, this most interesting couple is fictional. I feature musical examples in tempo maps, graphs, abstract visuals: whatever group you are in call the same [meanspeed graphs] different names. A "graph" implies an pictoral aspect whereas a "chart" does not necessarily connote a 'visual'. A chart can be Text Only - a graph implies a picture. Another example in which The Bold and the Beautiful was used on graphs to show the tempo line of an archetypal song of lust was for the late Robert Palmer's ADDICTED TO LOVE, a pure song of lust written by Palmer in a dream. In that song, Eric's then wife Stephanie Forrester, played by the actress
Stephanie Douglas Forrester (Susan Flannery), is forgiving and accepts that her rugged yet creative husband must move on with a new woman, her care turns to her family in general as she emotes graceful forgiveness - she can only accept that the lust between these characters played Gareis and McCook are smoldering in bed with the heat of the passion of Forrester Creations, the fictional Ralph Lauren in the B & B and the utility of Viagra®, a pill made by Pfizer®.
For you
TiVo and
DVR users out there, though I know you would want to watch the commercials religiously every day,
CBS's drama is only 1/2 hour and is the only television program to be broadcast (not filmed) live by satellite throughout the world in general. No, my data base does not have amongst its song very many from Brazil, but, you do what you can, and this show is popular in Brazil, it is popular in Ireland! In trying to explain the meanspeed ideas, that certain tempo ranges imply corresponding emotive characteristics where predictive elements can be quite high, using internationally known fictional characters is more useful than talking about my in-laws.
In the
meanspeed scale, the range of range 77-78 beats per minute strongly implies '
bittersweetness'. √60 x 10, or 'the square root of 60 seconds *divided* by ten' is equivalent numerically, with the decimal place moved over to the right 2 places, to the amount of time of each beat - i.e., while 75 beats per minute requires 800 milliseconds in between beats and is highly predictive of songs of grace and poise, songs at 80 beats per minute require only 750 milliseconds per beat and are highly predictive of loneliness and discontent. 77.5 eats per minute ironically requires 774 milliseconds per beat. This the *mean* speed, that which is numerically identical as both speed and space is not intuitive. The only speed where the numbers do not move are 77.45966692414834... beats per minute which requires
exactly .7745966692414834... seconds per beat.
The emotions which I translate by music tempo are universal and thus I try to translate the language and culture barrier. I am a trained lawyer, though, not a trained international music pop music research person and cannot conduct experiments around the world using 15,000 songs in German, 15,000 in French and so on. I leave that for someone else! Insofar as at least the half of you reading this who are not American, though most of you speak English, I believe it is sometimes best to comprehend, understand or feel the emotive qualities I call mean-emotions using a dramatic analogies, here, the international language of love of music, love of sex, and love of television (not necessarily in that order)!
I believe that with most "process X in the brain is controlled by a timing pathway" and "the
fMRI showed that people had quicker healing time in the hospital with the use of music" studies lack the
narrow but essential area I study: the ACTUAL SPEED of such 'relaxing music'. What is relaxing music to me is not for *you* - which in turn is not for the next person and so on. The 10s of thousands of studies that promote 'soft relaxing music' do not tell you th etempo of their music, and even when they do, a study sample of 10 rather than 10 thousand is used, and while the experiments are closed, deductive and valid, they remain largely useless. In order to actually USE any such "music is a healer" study we need to establish that my speed is not your speed, which the German scientists essentially provided the groundwork for in the late 1800s.
In the
meanspeed conjecture we look to specificity. It is one thing for Professor X to assert that "anesthesia was reduced by 25 % when soft, relaxing music was played during the operation" and another assertion that "when songs chosen by the patient which had *
tempi of under 76 beats per minute* reduced anesthesia by 25 %" or "song at every speed which the patient *herself *considered relaxing reduced anesthesia by 25 %" or "anesthesia was reduced by 25 % when music considered by the *surgeon* was played during the operation" and so on.
If there is one thing we can all agree on it is that music taste is as varied as people's faces.
My relaxing is getting my mind to slow down to about 37 beats per minute using a metronome and a song in my head I have, in my aural imagination, literally brought down to that speed. That is, when I am nervous and want to calm myself. Ian Bush, one of the first people who ever asked me about improving his sports performance by setting a mental tempo did it - in California - and went on to set new records. When everyone else was nervously chattering before the race, he would go into the corner and play 2 Genesis/Phil Collins songs, both between 92-97
bpm, I believe they were "In The Air Tonight" and "Dodo/Lurker." In fact. "In The Air Tonight" was used by Jimmy Johnson as a psyche song when he was a football coach, and Ray
Lewis used it for decades as a football player.
Putting speed into words is violently difficult. I discovered this pattern TWENTY years ago to the week and when I stumbled on it I thought it was an established fact that I had discovered backwards. So said, I knew if it was undiscovered I would spend up to my last breath trying to explain the benefits of autochronicity - controlling one's own mental speed. The term "autochronicity" was coined by Dr. Lawrence Silverman and until Dr. Silverman agreed with my findings I had no graphics of any kind, which was 8 years after I discovered the patterns in the first place. The great doctor bought me Excel 5.0, and I still use that program to synthesize the graphs for Meanspeed Music Education in general.
A message to the "he's doing this to sell the graphics" critics: I saw the
meanspeed conjecture with my eyes on a legal pad with has a page for each major metronome click, as per back in the Analogue days: 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 63, 66, 69, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 126, 132, 138, 144, 152, 160 [and the rest of the 'standards' ], and after calibrating approximately 300 songs crudely matching a red light on a Seiko metronome. I was a 25 year old law student who was trying to make some sense of practicing piano in my down time from reading Supreme Court cases.
"The Heart of the Matter" - After the debate: Meanspeed Music still
calls for an OBAMA/McCain, old school style - "Signed, Sealed,
Delivered"
The original psyche song of Barack Obama was Stevie Wonder's Sign Sealed Delivered.
The
original manner of picking the president and the vice-president was:
top voter gets top slot, 2nd place gets vice-president. The men running
have plenty of mutual ground, respect. and, most importantly more
competence than either of their well qualified vice-presidential
choices.
Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title="Signed, Sealed Delivered I'm Yours"
Album=Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection
Intellectual Property=Motown Records, Copyright 2002
Kind=Protected AAC audio file
Size=2.6 MB
Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title="Heart Of The Matter"
performer=Don Henley
mean speed/objective tempo=88.1 beats per minute
average beat=681 milliseconds
mean emotion according to the
meanspeed music conjecture=
Renewal
/Ian Andrew Schneider/
NJ, US
No, there is nothing funny about a man in a coma. Not even when that coma is inspired by the rabidly creative yet macho character Eric Forrester. However, this most interesting couple is fictional. I feature musical examples in tempo maps, graphs, abstract visuals: whatever group you are in call the same [meanspeed graphs] different names. A "graph" implies an pictoral aspect whereas a "chart" does not necessarily connote a 'visual'. A chart can be Text Only - a graph implies a picture. Another example in which The Bold and the Beautiful was used on graphs to show the tempo line of an archetypal song of lust was for the late Robert Palmer's ADDICTED TO LOVE, a pure song of lust written by Palmer in a dream. In that song, Eric's then wife Stephanie Forrester, played by the actress Stephanie Douglas Forrester (Susan Flannery), is forgiving and accepts that her rugged yet creative husband must move on with a new woman, her care turns to her family in general as she emotes graceful forgiveness - she can only accept that the lust between these characters played Gareis and McCook are smoldering in bed with the heat of the passion of Forrester Creations, the fictional Ralph Lauren in the B & B and the utility of Viagra®, a pill made by Pfizer®.
For you TiVo and DVR users out there, though I know you would want to watch the commercials religiously every day, CBS's drama is only 1/2 hour and is the only television program to be broadcast (not filmed) live by satellite throughout the world in general. No, my data base does not have amongst its song very many from Brazil, but, you do what you can, and this show is popular in Brazil, it is popular in Ireland! In trying to explain the meanspeed ideas, that certain tempo ranges imply corresponding emotive characteristics where predictive elements can be quite high, using internationally known fictional characters is more useful than talking about my in-laws.
In the meanspeed scale, the range of range 77-78 beats per minute strongly implies 'bittersweetness'. √60 x 10, or 'the square root of 60 seconds *divided* by ten' is equivalent numerically, with the decimal place moved over to the right 2 places, to the amount of time of each beat - i.e., while 75 beats per minute requires 800 milliseconds in between beats and is highly predictive of songs of grace and poise, songs at 80 beats per minute require only 750 milliseconds per beat and are highly predictive of loneliness and discontent. 77.5 eats per minute ironically requires 774 milliseconds per beat. This the *mean* speed, that which is numerically identical as both speed and space is not intuitive. The only speed where the numbers do not move are 77.45966692414834... beats per minute which requires exactly .7745966692414834... seconds per beat.
The emotions which I translate by music tempo are universal and thus I try to translate the language and culture barrier. I am a trained lawyer, though, not a trained international music pop music research person and cannot conduct experiments around the world using 15,000 songs in German, 15,000 in French and so on. I leave that for someone else! Insofar as at least the half of you reading this who are not American, though most of you speak English, I believe it is sometimes best to comprehend, understand or feel the emotive qualities I call mean-emotions using a dramatic analogies, here, the international language of love of music, love of sex, and love of television (not necessarily in that order)!
I believe that with most "process X in the brain is controlled by a timing pathway" and "the fMRI showed that people had quicker healing time in the hospital with the use of music" studies lack the narrow but essential area I study: the ACTUAL SPEED of such 'relaxing music'. What is relaxing music to me is not for *you* - which in turn is not for the next person and so on. The 10s of thousands of studies that promote 'soft relaxing music' do not tell you th etempo of their music, and even when they do, a study sample of 10 rather than 10 thousand is used, and while the experiments are closed, deductive and valid, they remain largely useless. In order to actually USE any such "music is a healer" study we need to establish that my speed is not your speed, which the German scientists essentially provided the groundwork for in the late 1800s.
In the meanspeed conjecture we look to specificity. It is one thing for Professor X to assert that "anesthesia was reduced by 25 % when soft, relaxing music was played during the operation" and another assertion that "when songs chosen by the patient which had *tempi of under 76 beats per minute* reduced anesthesia by 25 %" or "song at every speed which the patient *herself *considered relaxing reduced anesthesia by 25 %" or "anesthesia was reduced by 25 % when music considered by the *surgeon* was played during the operation" and so on.
If there is one thing we can all agree on it is that music taste is as varied as people's faces. My relaxing is getting my mind to slow down to about 37 beats per minute using a metronome and a song in my head I have, in my aural imagination, literally brought down to that speed. That is, when I am nervous and want to calm myself. Ian Bush, one of the first people who ever asked me about improving his sports performance by setting a mental tempo did it - in California - and went on to set new records. When everyone else was nervously chattering before the race, he would go into the corner and play 2 Genesis/Phil Collins songs, both between 92-97 bpm, I believe they were "In The Air Tonight" and "Dodo/Lurker." In fact. "In The Air Tonight" was used by Jimmy Johnson as a psyche song when he was a football coach, and Ray Lewis used it for decades as a football player.
Putting speed into words is violently difficult. I discovered this pattern TWENTY years ago to the week and when I stumbled on it I thought it was an established fact that I had discovered backwards. So said, I knew if it was undiscovered I would spend up to my last breath trying to explain the benefits of autochronicity - controlling one's own mental speed. The term "autochronicity" was coined by Dr. Lawrence Silverman and until Dr. Silverman agreed with my findings I had no graphics of any kind, which was 8 years after I discovered the patterns in the first place. The great doctor bought me Excel 5.0, and I still use that program to synthesize the graphs for Meanspeed Music Education in general.
A message to the "he's doing this to sell the graphics" critics: I saw the meanspeed conjecture with my eyes on a legal pad with has a page for each major metronome click, as per back in the Analogue days: 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 63, 66, 69, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 126, 132, 138, 144, 152, 160 [and the rest of the 'standards' ], and after calibrating approximately 300 songs crudely matching a red light on a Seiko metronome. I was a 25 year old law student who was trying to make some sense of practicing piano in my down time from reading Supreme Court cases.
Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title="Signed, Sealed Delivered I'm Yours"
Album=Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection
Intellectual Property=Motown Records, Copyright 2002
Kind=Protected AAC audio file
Size=2.6 MB
Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title="Heart Of The Matter"
performer=Don Henley
mean speed/objective tempo=88.1 beats per minute
average beat=681 milliseconds
mean emotion according to the meanspeed music conjecture=Renewal
/Ian Andrew Schneider/
NJ, US
