“I’m Looking Through You” is a Lennon-McCartney song, written mainly by Paul McCartney, that first appeared as the tenth song on The Beatles‘ 1965 album Rubber Soul. This is a YouTube offering of the song -

It was written about Jane Asher, McCartney’s girlfriend of five years. “You don’t look different, but you have changed,” the lyrics declare, reflecting his dissatisfaction with their relationship.

Under the supervision of Sir James Manning, we calibrated the song with the method exactly as described on these pages, measuring 50 measures of music in nine trials. Most importantly for the meanspeed style graphs, all measurements are contiguous, both insofar as the note within any measure and the song as a whole.

Meanspeed Music speed summary -
song=”I’m Looking Through You”
composers=John Lennon, Paul McCartney
performer=The Beatles
rhythm=2/4, where the half note get the beat twice per measure
beats calibrated=1,800
time elapsed, total
time elapsed per trial=2 minutes, 5.5 seconds
beats per trial=200
average beat=697 milliseconds
meanspeed=86.1 beats per minute
meanemotion=renewal
mean slow phase=1.435 cycles per second
corresponding pitch=367.4 hertz.

Ian Andrew Schneider
Sophia St. John Newman
Sarah Jane Bristol
September 5, 2007