Tempo is to music as nudity is to sex, or as the weather is to the news. The mean speed is derived from √1 minute*10^-1 or the square root of three fifths of one second, √3/5" – the Universal Speed of Indecison. What's in it for *you*? If we control our mental speed, we control our mood. Emotion is simply a predictable frequency.
Fleetwood Mac recorded and released “Landslide” in the 1970s. Its tempo is ~79 4/5ths BPM, a speed that on a Confidence level, compared to other tempo ranges, 79-84 BPM are not necessarily desperate, lonely or as in Eminem’s STAN, with major help from Dido, ~80 BPM, desperately lonely.
Landslide - Precision in measurement radar tempo chart
http://bpmscan.com/LandlideBPM
There are other expression of this loneliness: Foreigner, I WANNA KNOW WHAT LOVE IS – that is misery, trust me. And the WE WILL ROCK YOU chant? That is ~82. Sets an atmosphere of fear – well, it did in 1986, and now it’s *played out* you stadium music programmers!)
Bruce Hornsby and Pat Metheny take the high road out of loneliness in THE TIDE IS HIGH, ~ 80 BPM. This song is honored by Manningsan and me as ‘the exception that proves the rule,’ is same song’s optimism, especially in Pat’s solo on the key change.
And another way, as here, to deal with being lonely – face it and realize that your Stevie Nicks at 20-something and life is, well, pretty good. However, heartache is heartache, even if you are Stevie at 22.
Yesterday I saw my screen saver had produced the tempo map show in this page. I thought: this is a song good enough to have an album made around the one song: have Eminem create his version, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, Dave Matthews. As as EP, I’d but that without sampling it at all.
I’ve watched every Jets game for the last 40 years where I have had *any* tv ability. When I went to college in Clinton, NY, I was almost crying when I turned on the Jets game opening Sunday, 1981, only to see the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo is, after all, closer to Clinton than the Meadowlands.
More importantly, neither the “New York” Giants nor Jets played in New York *once* all year. Usually the Jets play their division rival Buffalo Bills in my friend Chris Pope’s home town of Buffalo. This year, though, the Jets played with Toronto hosting the Bills at the Rogers Centre.
The EMPIRE STATE OF MIND is *precisely* same speed to Eminem’s LOSE YOURSELF. You may want to try that on a psyche loop.
So we of the Empire State who have followed the Jets since the Shea Stadium days were, as we were expecting, heartbroken again today. But ya know: sports is so amazingly fantastically great to watch in that at the end, no one dies, your dog still loves you and you get in bed with the other 30 teams that didn’t win it all this year either.
Bob Costas once *left* football analysis because he called it a , “[Brutal, barbarian activity that barely qualified as a sport].” Now let me say, like Mr. Costas, I am a huge baseball fan. So said, both sports are violent and potentially fatal (a foul ball in the head, 2003, killed a Class AA coach who.
Thank god no football player has died or been paralyzed recently, because though a “game,” Michael Lewis describes in his book The Blind Side, ” at the professional level: every play packs the violence of a car crash.” Costas, alas, came *back* to football. After seeing REAL war, as any of you REAL warriors of the United States armed forces know, football ain’t so barbaric.
Meanspeed-Spencer® Summary
song title=Empire State of Mind
performer=Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
arithmetic mean speed/average expected tempo=86.7 bpm
frequency=369.92 HZ where F#4=349.228 Hz and G4=391.995 Hz
bit rate=256 kbps
sample rate =44.100 kHz
File type=Purchased AAC Audio file
digital recording downloaded=iTunes® by Apple®
file type=m4p
average beat=0.700 seconds
contemporary tempo maps=Ian A Schneider, James Manningsan
What’s kinda cool about the Empire State of Mind is the EXACT same speed as Eminem’s LOSE YOURSELF.
Further: thanks Jets for a great year. See you next year, Section 205!
