These speed graphs of the song Fields Of Gold by Sting have been measured as contiguous groups of four quarter notes—two displayed with each result for the twenty trials, the other two represent the averaged measurements.
FIELDS_OF_GOLD_meanspeed_music_modern_tempo_map - STING - UNIVERSAL SPEED OF ORGASM
The straight line indicates the average tempo, expressed as beats per minute, or Meanspeed.
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The frequencies for Fields Of Gold are-
meanspeed=104.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=Natural
meanbeat=1.733 beats per second.
meanspace=577 milliseconds per beat.
meanspace=2308 milliseconds per measure.
meanphase=1.733 cycles per second.
meanpitch=443.73 Hertz, 14 cents above A4=440.000 Hertz and 86 cents below A#/Bb4= 466.164 Hertz.
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James Manning and I suggest that you get rid of the “FM ROCK RADIO” alarm – use a basic tone instead. When you hear the first song in the morning – if you are that type, and if you have read this far you just may be – make it a song where if it gets stuck in your head all day you will not mind. Then maybe you can figure out the speed. when you start to put your collection together – we are here, as 95% of our digital music has not been logged into iTunes yet, so you are seeing it as it grows. Which can be as exciting as watching your child grow up or as exciting as watching wheat fields grow. (It bored one painter to suicide, but he was from that country that is ground zero in the international decision to stay civilized or go mad. Visit Amsterdam).
If you buy the song on iTunes, you also get:
and with Apple’s simple instructions you can work with this:
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and -
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which has use is putting together playlists, finding a comfort zone of speed–not one forever, though there will be one speed range that you will like more than all the others, close seconds notwithstanding–and *setting the mood for the day.*
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Ian Andrew Schneider
January 15, 2009
