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Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title=Why I Am
performer=David J. Matthews, Timothy Reynolds, Carter Beauford, Boyd Tinsley, Stefan Lessard/Dave Matthews Band
album=Europe 2009
intellectual property music rights=(P) Bama Rags Recordings, L.L.C.
file type=Purchased AAC audio file
size=9.5 MB
sample rate=44.100 kHz
bit rate=256 kbps
average beat=~0.426143 seconds
median expected tempo/arithmetic mean speed=129.7 beat per minute
frequency=2.1616 Hz
profile=Low complexity
channels=Stereo
extension=m4a
vibration=553.37 Hertz
Ian Schneider
Meanspeed® Music Company
Kendall Park, New Jersey
United States
December 11, 2011
Of the 10s of thousands of comments about the song WHY I AM by the Dave Matthews Band, I found these 5 simple public comments to, as the President, embody grace in the ease of linear thought:Mortality has never been far from the surface of frontman Dave Matthews’ lyrics, since his sister was murdered by her husband in 1994. This song’s lyrical content took on greater meaning for the band after the tragic death of their sax player LeRoi Moore, as a result of injuries sustained in an ATV accident on his farm.
Dave Matthews told Relix magazine: “This song is definitely about death. The whole thing of ‘When my ghost takes me from you, you will remember the fool that I am, so don’t cry, baby don’t cry.’ The urgency of living, I think, is very present in this song. We played it once in [the initial group improv sessions in] Charlottesville, and Roi said ‘I love that jam.’ The horns on that particular song are from that first time we ever played it, before it was really a song, before it had a chorus or any bridges; from that, we have Roi’s performance.”
Matthews told Relix that he named the album before he wrote the lyrics to this song. He said: “I like the fact that we had come up with Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King before I wrote the lyrics to that song, so I was able to include it. We were trying to think of names for the record, and GrooGrux was a name that Roi and Carter and Tim and some other musicians before our band used to call each other. But it stuck with Roi. He used to call Carter and Tim ‘Grux,’ but they both called him that, and I might have called him that sometimes, too—so it sort of stuck to him. Roi would always say ‘My name is King’—that’s what he would say about himself. There’s not too much meaning in it; I just liked the sound of GrooGrux King. It’s a mouthful, though. Then we were out at this photo shoot and there was this guy stumbling around, playing harmonica. He’d play something and then say ‘I need a big whiskey!,’ trying to get some money to go get a little more hammered. And Fonz gave me a $20, and I stepped off the shoot and gave it to the guy. He glanced at the $20 like it was a single, and he said ‘I said I need a… I said I need a… Oh. That is a big whiskey!’ And then he walked off to go and get his buzz. But while he was screaming that, Rashawn, our trumpet player, said ‘That’s a good name for the record.’ I really liked Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King because it sounds sort of like a fairytale, more like an old story.”
Matthews told Rolling Stone that the idea of Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King was to build songs out of improvised grooves. He explained: “We were recording all the time. We limited each other. Only a few minutes. Once you find a groove, you can only do it for a couple minutes. Nobody wants to prove how good their chops are. No solos, f–k you. We were finding these feels, finding these moods, so we got quite a few of those.”
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Here’s my take on Why I Am. This song is complex lyrically, as are all of Matthew’s songs, and it touches on several different, yet related, themes. First is the cynicism of man as an evolutionary beast, slave to evolution (“grew from monkey into man”) versus the human condition as a product of man’s own doing (“drunk on water turned into wine”); together these two themes address the question of free will versus natural instinct. In either case, the result of man’s ascent can either be catastrophic (“I crushed 15 million with a wave of my hand”, an apparent reference to the holocaust taking place at the behest of saluting nazi’s) or it can lead to complex and rewarding human understanding (“Always the only one to make you smile”).
It is near the middle of the song that there is the first insight into the motivation for the lyrics. Matthews pays homage to his recently fallen band mate, LeRoi (the “GruGrux King”), in verses which go on to suggest that the mistakes of mankind often result in death treated as a trivial afterthought. In other words, there is so much emphasis on winners and losers, and us versus them (paraphrased), when, indeed there is “only one way out of the world”, one which we all will take at some point. It is only when man begins to understand this fact (i.e., “climb out of the tree”) that death/mortality are truly understood and respected. In this way, LeRoi’s life is celebrated in song as a metaphor for living right. This seems to be the central theme, and this theme was, in all likelihood, chosen as the result of the sudden and unexpected death of a friend.
This is an unbelievable song both lyrically and musically, and is a fitting tribute to the band’s fallen friend. Possibly the best song the band has ever done.- Joel, San Antonio, TX
meanspeed-Carlton speed summary
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Meanspeed Music has been approached by too many [companies to mention] for us to put up a classic Monday post, Jim Deluva and I
bring you the Monday Afternoon Movie.
This movie features velocity-timeline charts along with soap box score from The Young and The Restless® and The Bold and The Beautiful®, Billy Joel, The Beatles, Rikki Lee Jones and the Dave Matthews band.
which is found also at an official AOL® site, as the song is so excellent that promotional playing as thus only helps Augustana, who are promoting PEACE.
Also in promotion of peace is the theme song to the show Cheers – the sentiment opposite – showing how fast and dizzying people are trying to “Find A New Life”
median expected tempo/arithmetic mean speed=73.44 beats per minute
average beat=817 milliseconds
band=Augustana
Genesis’s longest song is called supper’s ready. The ending section, with a slow mean speed of 47-48 beats per minute, was written by peter gabriel but also performed by Phil Collins.
These tempo maps were taken from the Genesis’ album Seconds Out after 14 trials were crunched. The charts here each represent every beat of the section – so each point is both a downbeat and a backbeat.
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Thank goodness for selfless people – I know I’m not getting paid to show exactly how fast this part is. Rather : Slow – if you like this section, I would guess you are a fan of the classical musicians ravel and debussy – the quartets, Petite Suite and Pavane immediately come to mind, especially with a surreal Andre Previn conducting.
The song was written mainly by Peter Gabriel for Genesis, with credit also going to Tony Banks (keyboards), Phil Collins (drums, percussion, backing vocal), Michael Rutherford (bass) and Steve Hackett (guitar).
Thgis pice is from the PEOPLE’S encyclopedia, “wikipedia.org”
“As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men’s Feet)”
“As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs” is a folklore variation of the logical tautology that “X = X”[9] and in this context is a reference to certainty and faith—being absolutely convinced of the ultimate victory of good over evil and that God and Heaven do indeed exist. “Aching Men’s Feet” is a play on “making ends meet”.[citation needed] “Apocalypse” segues into this part via a slower section which reprises the lyrics from “Lover’s Leap” in combination with the chord progression from “The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man”, backed by a pressed snare drum roll and tubular bells. As this reaches a peak, during live shows, a flash charge would be fired and Gabriel would discard his Magog costume to reveal himself in shining white apparel which glowed when exposed to black light. During one gig, he infamously attempted flying on a kirby wire, and was nearly strangled.[citation needed] From this point to the end, drums, deep bass pedals and mellotron brass are present, Gabriel singing Blakean lyrics which reference The New Jerusalem (The Crystal City of God that is established after the death of the Anti-Christ) and the Second Coming of Christ with reference to the biblical Revelation 19:17:
I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God.
(According to some interpretations, this passage of Scripture refers to the bodies of the wicked dead left-over after the forces of the Anti-Christ are supernaturally destroyed, after which the birds are called to feast on the flesh of the wicked. Hence, the song’s bizarre title: “Supper’s Ready”.)
After completing the lyrics in this section, Gabriel would then pick up and raise an active blacklight tube, holding it near himself, upraised with both hands, as though it were a sword. Gabriel would be the only one lit onstage at this point and would actually appear to be glowing from the combination of blacklight, his reflective white costume and fluorescent makeup. Gabriel considered this effect to be a theatrical way of symbolizing the victory of good/light over evil/darkness. (This “glowing” also reflects a spiritual transformation, changing from a fleshly body to a spiritual one, also referenced in the preceding lyrics, “Can’t you feel our souls ignite..”).
Then, the piece fades out on overdubbing cascading lead electric guitar parts from Hackett. On the original recording this section is in the key of A, but because of Gabriel’s inability to properly re-create the same vocal performance onstage from either hoarseness or tiredness, the band regularly had to change the key to G.
The program describes this section as follows:
Above all else an egg is an egg
‘And did those feet …………’ making ends meet.
Jerusalem = place of peace.[4]
This segment was performed as a standalone once in 1978 and on the first leg of the 1986 Invisible Touch Tour as part of the “In the Cage”/”…In That Quiet Earth”/”Supper’s Ready” medley.
The two words defining the adjective “toy” where both the Martika and Eminem, see, http://www.songmeanings.net/m/song/3530822107858516806, songs apply are “UNNECESSARY” and “TRIFLING,” as war always is -1972 Oxford English Dictionary.
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In Eminem’s situation, the unnecessary war was rappers killing each other over fame.
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In Martika’s situation, the unnecessary war was over cocaine addiction and the death of her brother. See, http://www.songmeanings.net/m/song/16520/
Meanspeed-Carlton Speed Summary
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Average 1/2 note=1.4669″
Average 1/4 note=0.73345″
Arithmetic Mean Speed=81.8 bpm
Artist=Eminem
Album=Curtain Call
Bit rate=320 kbps
Sample rate=44.100 kHz
Average 1/2 note=1.884″
Average 1/4 note=0.923″
Arithmetic Mean Speed=65.0 bpm
Artist=Martika
Album=Toy Soldiers
Bit rate=256 kbps
Sample rate=44.100 kHz
This is because like any other performer’s signature song, they aren’t going to get out of a concert venue without playing it! The Miracles, for example, once tried to leave the stage with leader Smokey “Smoking!” Robinson without playing their signature hit of the day, MY GIRL. It was so chaotic at the hotel room of the band all night after an almost impossible trip outside the venue, that song was never skipped again.
So these 7 performances represent an afternoon’s rehearsal – one can imagine loving a song to the point that though one wrote it, they are sick of it.
