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REPOSTED FOR A REASON- Censored by Apple®, REINSERTED by [redacted]. SJ, You are NOT my Big Brother, NOT my god, and most CERTAINLY not My Savior†. RIP.

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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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9.21.10

Beauty Plus Unrequited Infatuation= Lonely: MELISSA, The Allman Brothers Band, meanemotion=Lonely, meanspeed=83.1 bpm

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contemporary tempo map - meanspeeed music public education 2

Melissa is a song written by the Allman Brothers band based on a beautiful little girl that they used to see in the supermarket between rehearsals & recording sessions.  From the many sources I have read, there is no one “official story” as to who the girl was and who exactly was so emotional about her.  You have to deduce it was as a Monet painting of beautiful young ballet dancers. The children are adorable, yet the expression of the artist is not pedophilia (except the Bay City Rollers drummer, and he did not write their songs, anyway), the effect us bringing one back to a scene of innocence at the most carefree time in life.  Perhaps this girl in Melissa, the song, looked like someone a Bother wished was 10 years older – the teacher falls for student thing.  The 10 year gap between you and your 10th grade English teacher might have made it criminal for the two of you to hold hands.  10 years later, you’re 25 and she’s 35, well, not such a big deal anymore.  I think this song is that type of lament. This YouTube comment says it all, – “I had not seen this version, yet ….Whatever version I see confirms to me that this is one of the saddest most beutiful songs written this century. Yet it makes me soooo happy to hear it!!!!” attributed to morjohnny540, on or about 6/9/09. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqeXZ-4kb60)

So if you feel blue that this song isn’t a confident get up and go anthem, that would be your explanation as to why: TEMPO ONLY.  As I always note, well, sometimes note, tempo is to a song what the weatherperson (Al Roker, Chris Cimino, Sam Champion) is to the news (Deborah Norville, Walter Cronkite, Wolf Blitzer).  The news is the *tone* fo teh song – and the melody.  The harmony is more important than tempo also.  So said, next comes rhythm – and though tempo comes last, like the weather report, turns out that the weather can effect everything reported by the Couric’s, O’Reilly’s, Gibson’s, Willimas’, Scarborough’s and Olberman’s.  God rest the soul of Timothy Russert, the last real reporter.   Requiem Eternum † – no one else is going to put a possible truth ahead of being killed.  I do not know that TR was killed.  Given the Smith & Wesson test, ie, gun to my head, wrong answer gets your head shot off: I was watching CNN in my father in law’s hospital room when the autopsy reults, unquestioned, were more detailed than other part of Tim’s death.  That was disturbingly familiar and similar to that which David Lipton wrote about JFK: that the newspapers in Australia knew of his death before the motorcade started – so much for the “land of the free and the home of the brave” – like this song, it gets more like the “land of the  corporate slave and the home of the diffident”

 

 

contemporary tempo map - meanspeeed music public education

contemporary tempo map - meanspeeed music public education

  The Neumann-Carlton Summary  performer=The Allman Brothers Band album=Eat A Peach mean speed/average expected tempo=83.1 beats per minute. meanemotion=lonesome solitude mean beat=1.385 beats per second. average beat length=722 milliseconds per beat, a quarter note mean slow phase=1.385 cycles per second. mean pitch=354.560 Hertz, 27 cents above F4=349.228 Hertz, 63 cents below F#4/Gb4=369.994 Hertz.  So about an F.  Very sad, that tone of F.  Paul McCartney created a 50 year movement from understanding this. Ian Schneider NYC   this article is a revised and crisper version of that which was published on September 14, 2006.  As you can see, I also got very fancy learning that the color blue was subject to iPhoto® manipulation.  That one graph on the top looks way better than it used to – plus, WordPress gets the credit for holding it, not the disgraceful blogging service who’s names end in a word which rhymes with Fog’s Hot.  And diffident means- outrageously milquetoast weak when among others.  

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contemporary tempo map - meanspeeed music public education 3