Beatles – Day Tripper | A meanspeed® therapy tempo analysis | median expected tempo =137.6 beats per minute

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I think there is not one word of analysis about Day Tripper by the Beatles that cannot be found somewhere, thus I won’t add to speculation about the song.

What I wanted to know was exactly how fast the song was, preferably with a tempo map to help me through it. I found no such thing. I found this:

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Daytripper ladymadonna · Drivetime · Gameshow Rag/Cannonball Rag · Green Thumb · Guitar Boogie · Halfway Home · Hunt · I’ve Always Thought Of You …
Notes On “Day Tripper” (DT)www.recmusicbeatles.com/public/files/awp/dt.html
“Day Tripper”, by virtue of its handling of harmonic rhythm, the ostinato bass … of the speed at which the music moves forward more so than the actual tempo.
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and segmentation, as well as tempo and struc- ture extraction. ….. throughout the image.

Figure 9. Day Tripper by Lennon/McCartney, performed by the Beatles …
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Day Tripper, beatles songs, beatles history, recording history, songwriting history … The second verse now proceeds with the same exact arrangement as the … As the tambourine part finishes off the eighth measure, it begins to rush the tempo, …
Drum charts, drum scores and music.

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Tempo: Moderate 142 … Tempo: Moderate 120 … Tempo: Fast Shuffle Feel 174 … The Beatles Day Tripper 96×96 Beatles Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band …. although the exact amounts contributed by each Beatle is in contention.
Humboldt County – Divine Daytripper Freelance Travel Writer …

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Divine Daytripper Freelance Travel Writer … Their lively, upbeat tempo took me back to a sweeter time in life when responsibility, structure, …. At the exact moment when there was a lull in the conversation, he asked in all earnest, “so…exactly …

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Each song appears as a lead sheet with style, tempo, form, and CD track indications. … The play-along tracks use the exact same mix as the performance tracks, so you can hear how you … Over 20 songs: day tripper / drive my car / help!
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Songs: Day Tripper • Message in a Bottle • Refugee • Shattered • Sunshine of … is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing … be returned if opened but it can be exchanged if defective, for the exact same title.
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… from Palmer and the obligatory quote from the Beatles’ ‘Day Tripper’ (geez, the … time to end because in the exact middle of it Pete acquires the idea for a new one). … ‘Broken Arrow’ is really just a big six-minute mess, with bizarre tempo …

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… hear their style is on their remake of The Beatles’ “Day Tripper” that found its way out … They dial the tempo down and transpose the key to sound decidedly eerie. …. Additionally, not all of the lyrics are exact representations of the originals.

This was not helpful to me.

So I did the work myself. As Ray Charles once said, if a chart cannot speak for itself it is no chart at all – and he was blind, so those of us who can *read* music and maps ought to thank [who-ever] for the gift of eyesight. Of course I make my bpm scans such that an ordinary non-musician can follow then as easily as a musician.

Meanspeed® Carlton Speed Summary

average beat=0.436 seconds

median expected tempo/arithmetic mean speed=137.6 beats per minute

frequency as an audible tone=587 Hertz

Other songs within 1% of Day Tripper
“Wild Wild Life, ” Talking Heads

“Everybody Loves You Now,” Billy Joel

“You Really Got Me,” The Kinks

“Putting Out The Vibration And Hoping It Comes Home,” Richie Havens, live 1983

“867-5309 (Jenny, Jenny),” Tommy Tutone

“Jumping Jack Flash,” Rolling Stones

“You Love The Thunder,” Jackson Browne, live, Running On Empty

“Who Loves You” Franki Valley and the Four Seasons

Have a great week and thanks for your time and curiosity!

Ian Andrew Schneider

Meanspeed® Therapy

Kendall Park, New Jersey

April 23, 2012, 1:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time

* note – there is a earlier analysis from 2001 of Day Tripper published by me sometime in 2008 labeling the song as 138.0 beats per minute, 0.7% faster than the given 137.6 beats per minute.  This is a song I have in many master forms – the one used here is from the definitive digital download of the album Beatles Number 1 purchased from iTunes® and played on a MacBook® with iTunes® software, Joesoft.com®’s HEAR equalizer with Dr. Dre® and Sony® headphones.  The version measured in 2008 was initially measured in 2001 probably from a CD that was mastered faster than this.  No matter!  This is why I give out song 1% from their recorded speeds as loopable or similar speeds – even people with “perfect tempo” could never hear the difference between 137.6 and 138.0.

Breaking Down The Tempo of Pat Metheny – “Et Si C’etat La Fin (As If It Were The End)” – tempo diagrams, speed frequencies, song background, video. For educational/personal use only.

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.

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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

"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.

Ian Andrew Schneider

James Menko Mahnning

Meanspeed® Therapy

January 31, 2012