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

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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

James St. James Neumann

January 30, 2009

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