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Meanspeed Music Editorial – we support the dream ticket: Obama/McCain – The Lincoln-Reagan Illinois man with the MacArthur-Patton Independent warrior!

April 11, 2008 Ian A Schneider 2 comments

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Meanspeed Music Company supports a DREAM TICKET: Obama/McCain – The Lincoln-Reagan Illinois man + the Patton/Ike-like Independent warrior.


Through the primary season the Meanspeed Music Company has supported Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee. We have also endorsed John McCain as the Republican nominee.

slavery was outlawed in England by 1710, yet encouraged its continued practice here in the colonies by the ueber-snobs in Europe as to keep the free cheap flow of rum, tobacco and cotton coming. Sound familiar? No? That would be called: you never heard about it because before people spoke out, as that of a Bill Maher and Pat Buchanan in their wholly different yet wholly patriotic messages of **Better to be politically incorrect and get the issues candidly on the table rather than a country of affected disingenuous snobs who are kind to your face but mock you to your back**!

When we in the United States began electing heads our Commanders-In-Chief, the top electoral college vote getter became the President, the second place finisher the Vice-President.

Around the time of Andrew “Stonewall” Jackson, the “to the victor go the spoils system,” where the executive in chief, IE the president, began to choose his own Vice-President.

We endorse a return to that system. The voters have spoken. The Republican nominee will be Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Vietnam veteran who endured 5 years of prisoner-of-war torture and beatings and made it out of the Hanoi Hilton alive. The Democratic nominee will be Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, who was Harvard Law Review and is inspiring people from around the United States and beyond with his definition of his life as the American struggle and the American dream. McCain is 70 and his mother is a sharp-as-a-tack year old 97 year old. Obama is 46 and his wife is a sharp-as-a-tack 44 year old.

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title=”Signed, Sealed Delivered I’m Yours”
Album=Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection
Intellectual Property=Motown Records, Copyright 2002
Kind=Protected AAC audio file
Size=2.6 MB


Meanspeed Music Summary
Bit Rate=128 kbps
Sample Rate=44.100 kHz
Volume=(-13.1) dB
Profile=Low Complexity
Channels=Stereo
Beats calibrated=2,520
mean time per trial=150.04222 seconds
average beat=550 milliseconds
mean speed/average tempo=109.0 beats per minute
Emotive category according to the meanspeed music conjecture=lust
Special Event=Barack Obama Psyche Song


Elton, above, sticking to his masterful musicianship, not cow-bowing “royal” nonsensense.

Elton John tossed one of his toupees into the ring in favor of Hillary: this was the beginning of her end. Elton: we beat you in a war of INDEPENDENCE. Butt out, we pleaded – while we respect your bold sexuality, your voice means nothing to a United States voter, dude – sorry. We fought your insane “royalty” system as your crazy King named George believed in the Divine Right of Kings and would have loved the most racist and at the same time most Islamic-Terror loving (“we need Sharia law, and we need it now!”) Archbishop of Canterbury, the smarmy, arrogant loser Rowan Williams. Elton, the knight in shining sequins: memory fades but is not erased on this. Jeb Bush will not be the next President – or don’t you get that? You should have left royalty in The Late Diana Spencer’s resting spot, man. No one is BORN BETTER than anyone else – and, even if that were true, as some excel at things at which others flounder, as Bruce Hornsby could play circles around you on the piano and yet not have 1/20th your creativity, our system is one of *merit* to us, [Mr.] John – which is why you are quite a bit wealthier than Bruce.. No one *appointed* you as ROYAL COMPOSER TO Prince Charles – and look at your amazing career notwithstanding! Imagine if Julian Lennon was the only one allowed to compose for England? Save The Queen would be replaced by Too Late For Goodbyes into a Yoko space jam into Julian does a Norwegian Wood in rap. Fleetwood Mac, 1/2 English, sang for Bill Clinton and he won, but Bill Clinton could do just about anything, including keeping his wife from the nomination by prancing around like Barry Manilow in campaigning for Senator Clinton.

The comedian writers are doing Barack Obama no favors. If the only thing you can do with the life of John McCain is laugh at him for being 70 years old, then you are seriously devoid of creative talent in humor – and by the laws of karma (well, the *principle of karma*) when you, Jay Lenno and you Dave Letterman turn 70, in a very short time, as if you need to be reminded, you will regret your seemingly funny bit in truth bitter and hostile jokes. Once it is funny, two times it is not, three times: you are desperate. Craig Ferguson: come on man, show these guys the loosely cool manner of the Scots. In the alternative, you might match every McCain must be senile joke with a Obama can’t decide of he likes fried chicken or or fillet mignon as he has parents of mixed race joke. How HYSTERICAL would that be? It would be in fact low and racist – so stop the 4th grade humor and get to the return to the United States as a respected and feared and loved nation. Not a nation where Rowan Williams [sp] walks around with Sharia [sp] Law embedded in his assertions like Patty Hearst when she defined the Scandinavian Syndrfome, in England’s respected-in-public yet laughed-at-in-private STATE RELIGION, ie, institutionalized superstition) law takes us over, all women where birkas [sp], music is outlawed, and Jews are to be killed because there is nothing else to do in the oil soaked yet water and produce poor “Middle East.”

OBAMA

Ian –

You’ve heard about all of these political fundraising dinners, hosted by Washington lobbyists and filled with representatives of special interests.

Contributions like these are at the root of what’s wrong with politics. And John McCain and Hillary Clinton have built campaigns fueled by them.

But our campaign is different.

In February alone, more than 94% of our donors gave in amounts of $200 or less. Meanwhile, campaign finance reports show that donations of $200 or less make up just 13% of Senator McCain’s total campaign funds, and only 26% of Senator Clinton’s.

Our funding comes from a movement of more than one million people giving whatever they can afford.

And in the next week, four supporters will be selected for a new kind of fundraising dinner.

Make a donation in any amount between now and 11:59 pm EDT on Monday, March 31st, and you could join Barack and three other supporters for an intimate dinner for five.

We’re reserving two of those seats for previous donors like you. Make your donation now:

https://donate.barackobama.com/dinner

This movement is changing the way campaigns are funded.

More than one million individual donors have demonstrated that this election is about more than a candidate — it’s about each of us having a personal stake in the future of American politics.

Meanwhile, Senator McCain has raised more than 70% of his total campaign funds from high-dollar donors giving $1,000 or more. Senator Clinton has raised 60% of her funds from $1,000-and-up donors. And both Senator McCain and Senator Clinton have accepted millions of dollars from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs.

Refusing to accept donations from lobbyists and special interests has allowed this campaign to answer only to ordinary Americans like you. And this dinner will be an opportunity for you to sit down with Barack and your fellow supporters and talk about the issues that matter in your life and in your community.

Get the kind of treatment that John McCain and Hillary Clinton reserve for special interests — make a donation in the next week, and you could share your story and your ideas with Barack in person:

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With every single donation, we’re building a movement to change American politics. Help the movement grow, and own a piece of this campaign today.

Thanks for your support,

David

David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

McCain –

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My Friends,

Tonight, we can say with confidence the primary season is over, and the general election campaign has begun.

Each American faces a decision this election and the choice between my candidacy and Senator Obama’s could not be more clear. This is a change election. But the choice is between the right change and the wrong change; between going forward and going backward.

The right change recognizes that many of the policies and institutions of our government have failed. The right kind of change will initiate widespread and innovative reforms in almost every area of government policy from energy to taxes to government spending and the military.

The right change will stop impeding Americans from doing what they have always done, overcome obstacles and turn challenges into opportunities. Today, I humbly ask you to join my campaign for the right change, as we move forward together as a nation. Please follow this link to make your generous campaign contribution right away.

The wrong change looks not to the future, but to the past for solutions that have failed us before and will surely fail us again. Like others before him, my opponent seems to think government is the answer to every problem. That’s not change we can believe in.

My friends, we’re not a country that would rather go back than forward. We’re the world’s leader, and leaders don’t hide from history. They make history. If we’re going to lead, we must reform a government that has lost its ability to help us do so.

You can take direct action today by making a donation of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, or any amount up to the legal limit of $2,300. Your generous support will enable me to take my message of the right change and reform directly to the American people.

I don’t seek the presidency on the presumption I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save my country in its hour of need. I seek the office with the humility of a man who cannot forget my country saved me. I assure you that if I’m elected president, the era of reform and problem solving will begin. From my first day in office, I’ll work tirelessly to make America safe, prosperous and proud. And that, my friends, is the kind of change we need.

Sincerely,

John McCain

P.S. We need change in this country, but we need the right change. I am prepared to lead this country in the right direction, but I will need your help to get elected. Follow this link to make a donation of any amount up to the legal limit of $2,300. Your generous support will make all the difference in determining the type of change our next president brings to this nation. Thank you.

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The speed charts were created by Meanspeed music using the following method -

1) Listen for a songs underlying pulse, almost always found as quarter or eighth notes;

2) Begin the recording again, and using a lap stop-watch. Start watch on the first discernible beat;

3) Upon the next beat, start to count. I use a simple mathematical calculator set to “0 + 1=”, thereupon making the first time I hit the = key beat one, and so on. *Every* underlying beat is to be counted;

4) To perform actions 1-3 above, use one hand to hold the watch, the other to keep every beat counted;

5) Each time the counter hits a factor of ten, press the “lap” button on the stopwatch, thereby measuring the 10 beats that have immediately been heard while keeping the total time unaffected. This is a common way to time swimming laps and track laps;

6) At song’s final discernible beat, hit the “Stop” button rather than the “Lap” button on the stopwatch. The final stop will also measure the final beats in isolation.

7) Record all data;

8) Repeat same process eight times;

9) Average the entire song. Using simple cross multiplication, you can determine the song’s “average tempo” or “MEAN SPEED”

10) Average each group of ten beats. Using simple cross multiplication, you can determine t speed albeit at an error of closer to 1 %, of each grouping of beats. One need not use 10 to create the speed graphs I have so created. So said, in my experiments groups of ten usually make for the most easily seen speed trend of any song;
11) To create a speed graph yourself, simply use the obtained numbers on a spreadsheet software program (I have been using Microsoft’s Excel since 1995);

12) If it is simply a general number within 3-5% error rather than the scientific error described above, simply use the “tap link” on this site, or any of the other such “tempo” programs available.

The frequencies for the live version of September by Earth, & Wind & Fire are shown above in a radar speed chart and a linear speed chart with trend-line, featuring groups of contiguous 4 beat groups averaged in 10 trials.

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary

song title=SEPTEMBER
performer=Earth, Wind & Fire
meanspeed=125.8 beats per minute
emotive category according to meanspeed music theory=victory.
average beat =478 milliseconds.
corresponding pitch=268.373 Hertz, 43 cents above C4=261.626 Hertz, 57 cents below C#4/Db4=277.183 Hertz.

Ian Andrew Schneider
Meanspeed™ Music Company
August 5, 2008
published originally June 6, 2008

WE SALUTE OUR WAR HEROES WHO MADE REPUBLICAN DEMOCRACY POSSIBLE 64 YEAR AGO TO THE HOUR WITH BOLDNESS THAT CAN BE SEEN IN TOM HANKS’ BEST FILM, ‘SAVING PRIVATE RYAN’, BROTHER SPIELBERG’S FINEST CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNITED STATES ALSO. PERSONALLY, MY UNCLE MELVIN SCHNEIDER WAS IN BATTLE ON THE EASTERN FRONT ON SAME DAY, AND I SALUTE BOTH HIM AND MY COUSIN BRONZE STAR CAPTAIN JEFF SCHNEIDER OF ROCKWALL, TEXAS WHO HAS SERVED 4 TOURS OF DUTY IN 17 YEARS AS AN R.O.T.C. SUCCESS MAN FROM RUTGERS UNIVERSITY.

WE STAND AS A FREE NATION BECAUSE OF THE SELFLESSNESS OF SUCH PEOPLE, OUR CIVILIAN RUGGED INDIVIDUALS- AS THAT OF A MCCAIN OR OBAMA, CLINTON OR GIULIANI

The Beatles – REVOLVER – All 14 songs and their corresponding tempi – Why is the measpeed conjecture cutting edge? Didn’t a crazy lawyer discover it?

April 11, 2008 Ian A Schneider Comments off


the song list as it appears on Revolver, tracks 1-14


the song list as it appears on Revolver, tracks 1-14 – SORTED BY SPEED

The album ‘Revolver’ by the Beatles marked a changing point in contemporary music in so many ways that one could Google ‘Revolver’ and all the opinions thereon and not finish in three lifetimes!

At Meanspeed Music Research Labs in New Jersey, we set out to calibrate the entire Beatles catalog. Indeed, we have finished Revolver.

These charts represent the speeds, or tempos, and depending how much of a geek one is, “tempi.” In and of itself, this is not such a big deal. Two things, though *do* make it big:
1) all beat per minute lines showing the line of advance of any of these 14 songs, or *any* of the songs calibrated here, are done in
a) the song’s *entirety*;
b) in a contiguous manner; and

2) such an undertaking is the first of its kind, making me anything from very driven and talented or very driven by deluded ideation. In this regard, it is up to YOU to decide.

The Beatles Project will continue with the next album *in its entirety* – I hope you beatles purists like that – as I am a Genesis ‘purist’ and if one of you all were doing that which I am blessed enough to do, I would want every beat of every album – not just the ‘stuff that got played on the radio.

We are beginning to hear more feedback – and we thank you for that. It was a particularly strong letter from a media corporation in California that said, “KEEP GOING! We keep your website online 24/7 in the studio and you have no idea what a difference it has made.” Ah – yes, some things are far sweeter than money. The meanspeed conjecture, secretly called Emotion 9 as of last night’s Meanspeed Music board meeting (all 4 of us!) wherein one of the members realized that the secret to the ACCURACY OF THE beats per minute is due largely from averaging nine trials. If we were averaging only 7 trials, the average tempo in any space would be correct with an error of +/- 1.02% – it is the ninth trial that makes any meanspeed accurate to +/- 0.067% – an element that has made many academics eyes suddenly turn a wild green. Exceptions: Drs. Van Gelder, Clynes, Repp, Levitin. These four academics are so assured of their role in the endeavor of discerning what makes music psyche us up – what makes us not want to hear music at all and, on this page: what makes a player in a particular mood play at a *predictable tempo*. And why is the tempo scale so full of counterintuivity? The most striking counterintuitive element of Emotion 9: why are the songs at 81 beats per minute predictive of lonely emotive performances and 76 beats per minute indicative of grace and comfort? Aren’t songs supposed to get *happier as they speed up*? Fact is, from 116 bpm to 119 indicates a movement from foreboding to victory. Logical. Also, a movement where the tempo is 86 bpm, which falls in the beginning of the category renewal (songs at approximately 85-89 bpm) rather than 83 is predictive of loneliness (songs at approximately 79-84 bpm) loneliness indeed sees an emotion of the lonely going into rehab (“I Want To Know What Love Is,” Foreigner –> speeding to one coming out of the 30 day detox renewed (“Hello, It’s Me,” Todd Rungren).

And what is Emotion 9? The short answer is that it is the total pelvic rhythm of orgasm in both men and women – approximately 98-105 bpm. Leave it to the German anal probe experiments on orgasm to give us an accuracy as to the Ultimate Feeling of Natural Euphoria (orgasm). The meanspeed scale is, as you can see by exploring the dropdown screen -
Those ranges are as follows:

  1. 54-58-Melodrama
  2. 59-62-Sincerity
  3. 63-69-Ceremony
  4. 70-76-Grace
  5. 77-78-Bittersweetness
  6. 79-84-Loneliness
  7. 85-89-Renewal
  8. 90-97-Enthusiasm
  9. 98-105-Natural
  10. 106-113-Lust
  11. 114-118-Foreboding
  12. 119-128-Victory.

Personally, I find Emotion 8 to be the best cognitive tempo. Robert Louis Stevenson rules with one of the best aphorisms ever: “It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.”

Revolver Slideshow – by Sophia St. John Newman, James C.C. Manning & Sarah Jane Bristol


Ian Andrew Schneider
Emotion 9
April 11, 2008