Speed, John Lennon’s IMAGINE and the Psychology of the Speed of Grace – Is Human Emotion Simply Temporal Sequencing – Is Expression Merely *Timing*?

psychology-of-tempo-map-john-lennon-imagine-meanspeedc2aemusic-2009psychology-of-tempo-map-john-lennon-imagine-meanspeedc2aemusic-2009

psychology-of-tempo-map-john-lennon-imagine-meanspeedc2aemusic-2009psychology-of-tempo-map-john-lennon-imagine-meanspeedc2aemusic-2009

psychology-of-tempo-map-john-lennon-imagine-meanspeedc2aemusic-2009-police

Meanspeed®Music with the key supervision of James St. James Neumann calibrated all timing devices (SEIKO 300 lap quartz stopwatches) and measured the precise tempo of the the most famous John Lennon solo song ever: IMAGINE. All calibrations, spread sheets and graphs were produced by Ian Schneider and James St. James Neumann.

We used 4 beats – one measure – contiguous groups as a basis of 5,400 beat measurements.

St. James Neumann-Carlton Summary
mean speed/average tempo/median velocity=75.7 beats per minute
average beat=0.7926 seconds
emotional concept according to meanspeed® music theory=grace.


Ian Andrew Schneider

[Meanspeed+Music+Psychology+of+Tempo+Graph+-+John+Lennon+-+IMAGINE+-+contiguous+calibration+of+consecutive+4+beat+measures+as+beat+per+minute+and+centiseconds+per+measure.png]

how would you make this or the next article better?

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s