I looked up the song “Et Si C’etat La Fin (As If It Were The End)” on search engines cyber-wide and did not come up with anything I could rely on with precision and so I did the work of precise tempo measurement myself. I like the song very much, and I was preparing a loop with songs at the same speed, listed at the end of this post, for a song-mix I was making for my trip to Boston on Thursday.
"Et Si C'etat"-As_IF_IT_WERE_THE END- Pat+Metheny-Secret+Story-meanspeed tempo diagram_01 La Fin 0121
Pat Metheny’s song ”Et Si C’etat La Fin (As If It Were The End)” is a typical Pat piece which satisfies the elements of genius:
1) only Pat could have written it;
2) Pat plays simply and in a childlike way masking the most difficult elements of composition: saying something wholly different with the slightest tweak of what has already been, where only that tweak could have been made by that artist.
Song title=”Et Si C’etat La Fin (As If It Were The End)”
"Et Si C'etat (As If It Were The End" - meansped therapy tempo chart
Performer=Pat Metheny
Album=Secret Story/bonus version
Intellectual Property Rights=©2007 Nonesuch Records
Kind=Purchased AAC audio file
Size=7.4 MB
Bit Rate=256 kbps
Sample Rate=44.100 kHz
Volume=-3.5dB
Profile=Low Complexity
Channels=Stereo
File Extension=m4a
Median expected tempo/mean speed=130.0beats per minute
Average Beat=461.5 milliseconds
Corresponding Frequency=554.7 Hertz
Songs that are within 1% of “Et Si C’etat”
Parallels, Yes
Morning Has Broken, Cat Stevens
Money, Pink Floyd
Eight Miles High, The Who
All Along The Watchtower, Bob Dylan/single version.
James Menko Mahnning
Meanspeed® Therapy
January 31, 2012
