This businesswoman suggested a song she carries with her in her head through twitter this afternoon:

http://www.my-personal-secretary.com

presumably for the same reason we all do – it reflects our emotion at that time, or we seek an emotion that we can best feel in the expression of a certain song. Thanks for the recommendation!

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I measured the song for a precise tempo path.  Everyone has different tempo preferences.  Music and music therapy is *not* a ‘one speed helps all’ business at all.

Meanspeed®-Carlton Summary

Song title=Everywhere I Go

Performer=Lissie

Album=Catching A Tiger

Intellectual Property Rights=Fat Possum Records

Kind=Purchased AAC audio file

Size=8.3 MB

Bit Rate=256 kbps

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Sample Rate=44.100 kHz

Volume=-2.4 dB

Profile=Low Complexity

Channels=Stereo

File Extension=m4a

Median expected tempo/mean speed=93.75 beats per minute

Average Beat=640 milliseconds

Corresponding Frequency=400.00 Hertz

EVERYWHERE I GO by Lissie speed has a speed that is a deceptively fast 93.75 bpm.  Some other songs within 1% of the speed of this song which one might make small tape loop to set an attitude or set up  a mood within you or an atmosphere in a space:

Baby, Baby Don’t Cry, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

Blackbird, The Beatles

In The Air Tonight, Phil Collins

True Love Is Hard To Find, Bonnie Raitt

You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling, The Righteous Brothers

Until You Come Back To Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do), Aretha Franklin

Ian Andrew Schneider

James Menko Mahnning

Meanspeed® Music Therapy

January 28, 2012