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This is a Meanspeed Review of “Jessica” – a song that was recorded by The Allman Brothers Band in the 1970s. If you wanted to see how the speed is noted, check this out:
Does “upbeat country rock” mean anything? Yes, about as much as, “very funny television program.” Accurate yet useless. Why? The “definition” of tempo is so vague as to, as usual when people out of their league use the word “tempo,” they rely on the true-by-definition circular aspect of defining tempo. Like a football game: “Flacco sure is controlling the tempo out there,” says Announcer One. Announcer Two replies: “What the hell does that mean?” Announcer One, “I have no idea, actually. The Ravens are just playing well, so I thought I’d throw in a fancy word where no one else knows the definition.”
Meanspeed™ Music has been measuring tempo in quartz precision for over twenty years. There is more to the speed of music and the pace of behavior besides throwing outeuphemisms. So said, I am delighted to hear the great flock of announcers and analysts: Sterling Sharpe, Brian Baldinger, Brian Billick, Solmon Wilcox, Joe Buck, Phil Simms, Jim Nance, John Madden and Al Michaels who are beginning to DEFINE tempo. Not that anyone at FOX, CBS, NFL or NBC ever reads our pages (cough cough!). Maybe they are, though. Perhaps the most underrated sports analyst in the past quarter century, Bob Costas, who bailed out of football for a period of years because of its violence, has made a comeback and is defining the speed of the game, the “rhythm of the play,” and the meaning of ‘controlling the tempo’ in ways that have become cutting edge.
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The parallel: calling the Allman Brothers Pop mini-masterpiece and calling the tempo “upbeat country rock” is not wrong. However, given the precision of tempo of this song 104 9/10ths beats per minute and the emotions found with songs in this range, 98-105 beats per minute, you can find a space in your mind that you can always go. Get one of the 100 free metronome applications on Apple™ and put it in silent mode at 105 beats per minute. Pretty cool, huh? Especially at the price of: nothing. As Google says: the best things in life are free!
Meanspeed-Carlton Tempo Summary
song title=”Jessica”
performer=The Allman Brothers Band
soloist and main composer=Richard “Dickey” Betts
total time elapsed=3,340.96 seconds
average time per trial=417.62 seconds
beats measured=5,840
beats per trial=730
mean speed=104.9 beats per minute
mean emotion according to meanspeed music theory=natural
average beat=572 milliseconds
mean slow phase=1.748 cycles per second
corresponding pitch=447.6 Hertz
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recording source=iTunes Music Compilation: 20th Century Masters – The Millenium Collection – The Best of The Allman Brothers Band
recording type=m4p
Kind=Protected AAC audio file
Size=7.1 MB
Bit Rate=128 kbps
Sample Rate=44.100 kHz
Profile=Low Complexity
Channels=Stereo
FairPlay Version=2
Intellectual rights=© 2000 Polydor Records, a Division of Universal Records, Inc.
Ian Andrew Schneider
Meanspeed® Music Company
February 5, 2009
