Meanspeed® Music Review

Meanspeed Music Summary
song title=TIME OF THE SEASON
performer=The Zombies

expression category according to meanspeed music theory=foreboding
meanspeed/average tempo=117.9 beats per minute
average beat=0.509 seconds between beats, 2.04 seconds per measure
beat frequency=1.965 beats per second
Corresponding Pitch=251.52 Hertz
album=Sony Music 100 Years: Pop Music – The Golden Era 1951-1975
File Type=m4p
File Size=3.3 MB
File Kind=Protected AAC audio file
Bit rate=128 kbps
Sample rate=44.100 kHz

Graphs were generated by measuring groups of every common measure (four quarter-notes) ten times with Seiko 300-lap stopwatches where ten trials were averaged, coordinated and synthesized. For step by step easy method, click here or just pull from the the dropdown screen to your above left. Speed graphs were created in Microsoft’s Excel for MacIntosh 2004 on an Apple iBook G4.

Add, if you desire, the BPM on your iTunes by hitting CNTRL/I an filling in the blank. Jobs knows the tempos, though, right? Nope. Or, can you say, “save something” – I cannot tell.

Ian Schneider
February 11, 2008
(this is an update of an article 1st published here in July 2006)

John Lennon wrote and performed a song called MIND GAMES. The graphs are based on contiguous measurements of 268 beats. These measurements were made 10 times, entered into Microsoft Excel, averaged, and synthesized.

Mind Games – John Lennon

those mind games together, Pushing barriers, planting seeds …
4 min 14 sec -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dHUfy_YBps

YouTube – John Lennon Mind Games

Some long forgotton footage taken of Lennon in NYC just …var mb5=ManyBox.register(’5′,2,’yvIuiTwN3ekJ’,”,’afd5′,21,’Watch video’,'Hide video’)

Watch video – 4 min 20 sec -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO5LkJJlpTU

We found that our calibration of John Lennon’s “Mind Games,” and the weird speed of ceremony as a dream sequence song was best illustrated by our instant speed sheet music for the masses (above, everywhere) had quite the fit, as bathroom math art goes, to the Dr. Phil/Britney/insane body guard fiasco.

(this article was posted unedited after some internet connection problems)