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REM, Fall On Me, 117.9 BPM, Time Of The Season by the Zombies, 117.9 BPM, meanspeed=foreboding

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As I have shown this week, the songs by REM, Fall On Me and that by the Zombies, Time Of The Season have the same meanspeed: foreboding. While this is wherer the mean of the speeds are, both of these piece feature sections in the neighboring categories of victory and lust.





For both songs=, the frequencies are;
meanspeed=117.9 beats per minute;
meanspace=0.509 seconds between beats, 2.04 seconds per measure;
meanbeat=1.965 beats per second;
meanfrequency=1.965 Hertz as pulses per minute;
meantone=251.52 Hertz, 31 cents above B3=246.942 Hertz and 69 cents below C4=329.628.



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NY, New York
07 July 2006

FALL ON ME, by REM, live/Crushed with Eyeliner, meanspeed=victory

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Fall On Me is a song by REM that was first released on their Life’s Rich Pageant CD in 1986. This is a comparison of the song as REM performs on Crushed with Eyeliner,

The graphs here that contain more than one line, specifically, the eleven ribbon graphs, are exactly indicative of the results that I crunch for each of the 10 trials I use as a final mean speed on the two dimensional linear and logarithmic graphs at the top of this blog’s entry as per the thye live Crushed By Eyeliner version, with many charts comparing yesterday’s Life’s Rich Pageant version to this Crushed with Eyeliner live effort, where Michael asks the crowd to sing along.
In this live song the:
meanspeed=118.9 beats per minute;
meanspace=0.505 seconds between beats, 2.02 seconds per measure;
meanbeat=1.982 beats per second;
meanfrequency=1.982 Hertz as pulses per minute;
meantone=253.653 Hertz, 36 cents above B3=246.942 Hertz and 64 cents below C4=329.628.

The graphs are based on a spreadsheet generated with this method:
a) Calibration of groups of every common measure (four quarter-notes) ten times with Seiko 300-lap stopwatches;
b) Ten trials were averaged, coordinated and synthesized.
c) Speed graphs were created in Microsoft’s Excel for MacIntosh 2004 on an Apple iBook G4 as hardware printed and scanned on an Epson CX4600.

Life is mean.

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NY, New York
2 July 2006