We calibrated each tempo for the 24 finalists that appeared on Tuesday and Wednesday last week. Asserting the entirety of the theory of speed having its own nature and set of patterns in human communication is one thing, applying this questionable knowledge in actual life is, like, *another thing*. Just what we need - another new idea! Stay with me a moment! I had the idea that since American Idol is the most popular “town hall” in the country, having outpaced network news and network programs and in the end establishing its own culture, putting all 24 speeds up would, like, bring us all together. Or have I watched THE BIG LEBOWSKI one time too many? You can get the identical screen at home by:1) laying out a whole 99 ¢ for the song; 2) pressing CNT/I on windows or mac, entering the BPM, and closing. 
It’s really simple to do, and the reason [Steve Jobs] speaks not of it is, because like any good actor, he is saving something for the second act. Apple knows every speed of all these songs down to the .00001% BPM. Yet, the information is *only provided when wrong*. My embarrassing number of downloads don’t lie (2,000?) - I’m enough of a sinner in other ways, so: I don’t do LimeWire. I’m a drummer, albeit an average amateur drummer - you have to pay the piper! Jobs is saving something for the final act. Get control of your speed before Jobs’ speed controls *you* - about this I do not joke.I digress too much - but, in the world of staying legal, you don’t have that leftover $2,000 to get your website fixed. So you turn to WordPress’ fantastic free press, and suck it up. PLEASE DONT STEAL MUSIC BECAUSE IN SO DOING, YOU ARE KILLING THE MUSICIAN. THE *where will your next favorite song* come from? The last thing you want to do, and if you have read this far you must agree: Is burn out our true favorite songs. Reminds me of these kids who watch The Wizard Of Oz three times a week on DVD. How much sheer joy do the miss by not having it appear on national television *once per year*? Those *were* days - but I’m turning old - I’m 45 - so, of course, I’m into the whole “our stuff was better” thing. Working on it! 
As Dr. Phil says: cannot change a problem until you acknowledge same”- this sentence alone is an example of McGraw’s real-i-tude. Before DR. Phil we had Phil Donahue - a true man of evil, and, being a Jewish Episcopalian, I am dying to gossip about what everyone in Connecticyt knows about Donahue, but I am tempered by knowing that my sins are just as bad! Donahue & I both needed McGraws no-nonsense:BLAME NOBODY/EXPECT NOTHING/DO SOMETHING philosophy. Actually, that was Bill Parcells’ creed, but if the shoe fits, cite it. McGraw and the Tuna are what the United States is all about. 
Here’s a simple application: if you downloaded a song from last week and you were tasked the mission to make a playlist out of the twenty-four songs, what is the easiest way to do it - a way that, like, the pro’s do it? What the screen shots try to show you that in picking which song to play after another, speed, or tempo, depending on what you call it, can simply make a better list. There is a reason most “speed’ and “BPM” books are aimed at DJs, and increasingly karaoke and people who enjoy exercising to a beat - as in spin classes, Nike + iTunes sneakers that let you run and monitor your running speed to near perfection. I know Panasonic has a gadget that claims to let you change the speed without changing pitch - common to DJ equipment and common in recording music - but something I have never played on a digital player. For more Fox’s site -
http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/season7/ .
