“Hey, Soul Sister” precise bpm scan/tempo breakdown. Can you take a tape loop in your head and use it to advantage?

bpm graph/precision time measurement- HEY SOUL SISTER by Train

bpm scan - TRAIN - hey soul sister

contemporary tempo map ©2010.  Meanspeed® Music, All Rights Reserved.

Hey Soul Sister by Train is a popular song where the mean speed, or average expected tempo was in a tape loop in my head for a while.  I was not able to find out the name of the song as my voice is not good enough to sing it.  Finally, though, I heard it on a number of commercials on tv and found out the name of the song.

The past couple of days I have looped this song together with two other songs at the same speed – “The Tracks Of My Tears” by Smokey Robinson, “Soldier Boy” by the Shirelles and the Burt Bacharach version of “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” and thge Serious Hits Live version of “IN THE AIR TONIGHT” BY Phil Collins.

What effect does this have?  For me it allows me to set a mood for the day and to control the speed of my mind.  It does help to have a catalog of songs with their corresponding tempos.

Meanspeed-Carlton Speed Summary

average velocity=97.0 beats per minute

average beat=681.5 milliseconds per quarter note

Frequency-

low=1.16666 Hz

infrawave=3.23 Hz, 6.47 Hz, 12.93 Hz

lowest audible frequency=25.86666 Hz

midrange frequency=413.8666 Hz

Ian Andrew Schneider

Meanspeed® Music Company

October 6, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey,_Soul_Sister

American composer-musician Pat Metheny & Polish vocalist: Most Underrated album of decade? / “TAM, GDZIE NIE SIEGA WZROCK” (“FOLLOW ME”) – Pat Metheny and Anna Maria Jopek – Upojenie – precise meanspeed® music tempo analysis

A “TAM, GDZIE NIE SIEGA WZROCK” (“FOLLOW ME”) – Pat Metheny and Anna Maria Jopek – Upojenie – precise meanspeed® music tempo


analysis comes from the downloaded version of the song from Apple®’s iTunes®.

bpm+scan-Follow+Me-Anna_Maria_Jopek+Pat Metheny-Tam, Gdzie Nie Siega Wzrock

bpm+scan-Follow+Me-Anna_Maria_Jopek+Pat Metheny-Tam, Gdzie Nie Siega Wzrock

Meanspeed®-Carlton Speed Summary
composer=Pat Metheny

bpm+scan-Follow+Me-Anna_Maria_Jopek+Pat Metheny

bpm+scan-Follow+Me-Anna_Maria_Jopek+Pat Metheny

average velocity/arithmetic mean speed/mean fee music path=112 1/10 BPM
average beat=0.5352 seconds
vocal=Anna Maria Jopek

Upojenie - Follow Me - PAT METHENY & ANNA MARIA JOPEK - UPOJENIE

Upojenie - Follow Me - PAT METHENY & ANNA MARIA JOPEK - UPOJENIE

language of vocal=Polish
originally recorded by=Pat Metheny Group on the album IMAGINARY DAY
mood/emotional expression as would be anticipated by the meanspeed® music theory=lust/desire/visceral passion (see scale at sidebar)
key=G major
high interesting element of song=Pat’s use of harmonics

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Ian Andrew Carlton-Spencer
James Manningsan

Meanspeed® Music Open Education
June 25, 2010