Tempo has never been objectively defined.  In addition, “beat,” as “groove” can be felt by people who love music by sound or vibration.  At the same time _please please correct me of I am wrong: Not ONE universal definition of the “beat” in music has ever been accepted by all musicians and their listeners.

The first pdf file was removed by wordpress through the demands of the ugly RIAA on demand of Steve “I’m Christ” Jobs.  After explaining situation to people who – you’re not gonna believe – are MORE INTELLIGENT than Jobs – the pdfs are available again.  I dunno – maybe I have cancer too.  But that disease, man, lets a person act like an anti-Christ wherein the “cancer card” is a halo above his head – “I may be the world’s biggest douche, but ya can’t criticize the way I CONTROL music, because I’m Steve Jobs and I have cancer.”  Steve musta never heard the aphorism “we are all syphilis.”  We are dude – Cancer or time: GUARANTEE that you’ll die.  And what else?  NO CANCER (!)???  Time will kill me, you, yeah – you too.  So loosen up SJ – it’s amazing how greedy someone can be when they go around with decks of cancer cards.  I f I have cancer, or when I get it – at least I can come back and read this and not try to be the raving greed hypocrite that YOU ARE.
SEVEN September scans – monday night – meanspeed school tempo data visualization – click for the pdf file that Steve Jobs refuses to let you see.  I can see it on my Blackberry®, not on my iPhone.  Steve, dude, when is ENOUGH ENOUGH?

So as Pat Metheny has said, there’s someone [stupid] out there trying to “quantify the “unquantifiable”- and there’s me.  If it’s the same person that hurts, because as here I’m supporting his playing and his music, seen him 40-x live, buy legal recordings – in the days of beer and CDs sometime 3x – 7x / I’m thinking: hey man, I’m not trying to say that I own speed any more than you do.

So why make scans of tempos that are by my definition, and certainly by Pat’s definition, unless he’s eased up a little (I HOPE)?  Because as any equestrian person or dance person or any football, baseball, basketball, swimming, track, heck, even bob-sledding: you are all doing thing on your own.  I see players before games with their personal playlists – and my wish was to help people help themselves arrange music buy anything: artist, genre, date of release, album, year.  Usually if you think a mix is good you do it by improvisation, thinking – what song would just be THE perfect song to follow the song I just played.  It’s really fun, and really personal.  I cannot stand the “gurus” who tell you what you are “experiencing” with this infrawave or that ‘binaural beat’ (Sorry Stephen Colbert: Steve Jobs versus Adobe. Steve wants to be your Big Brother. Thanks but no thanks.ephen Colbert, the bin-aural beat crowd by definition shuns you because you admitted on THE COLBERT REPORT that you are left ear deaf.  So much for that.  Between 10 Hz/600 bpm and 16Hz /5,760 bpm- the lowest note someone can hear, most often found in church organs.

Hershowitz Christianberg, with help from JAMES MANNINGSAN, and a typo found by JAMES JIM DELUVA

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