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Bruce Springsteen - Santa Clause Is Coming To Town - St. James Charter School modern tempo map DC

Bruce Springsteen is well-known for his version of the holiday song “Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town. The version measured here comes from the official iTunes® catalog of the Greatest Christmas Songs by the Rock Stars archive.

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St. James-Spencer Summary
song title=Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town
performer=Bruce Springsteen

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means speed/average tempo/median velocity=131.9 beats per minute
average beat length, quarter note=455 milliseconds
FairPlay Version=2
Kind=Protected AAC audio file
Size=4.2 MB
Bit Rate= 128 kbps

Sample Rate=44.100 kHz
Profile=Low Complexity
Channels=Stereo
conceptual tempo graphs by=Ian Andrew Schneider, photographs by Natalie James.

/Ian Andrew Schneider/
St. James Charter School of New Jersey

December 23. 2009

winter photography by SETH GERSHBERG, Chicago Illinois, as taken in Washington, D.C., December 21, 2009.

Frank Sinatra sang bad Bad Leroy Brown at Carnegie Hall on April 8, 1974.  I guided the students of the St. James Charter School of New Jersey, the Chairman of The Board’s home state, having been born in my grandfather’s hometown of Hoboken.

Sinatra - Bad_Bad_Leroy_Brown - tempo mapping - The Bold and The Beautiful

If you look the tempo line or just the measurement up in Yahoo!, Google, Bing, etc, you will get much of what the screen shot below called “Google has to mae money so they sold out – but only a little.”  These measurements and tempo maps are not in existence anywhere but on your screen.  Dorky?  Maybe.  Useful?  To some.  Original?

Sinatra - Bad_Bad_Leroy_Brown - tempo mapping - promo iTunes Carnegie Hall version

I see that the meanspeed® music company succeeded in earning a Service Mark and Registered Trademark approved the original content, and the world ws open to challenge this for 30 days, wide open in the International Gazette: therefore original.

Sinatra - Bad_Bad_Leroy_Brown - tempo mapping - Tony Romo version

There is not ONE AXIOMATIC definition of tempo: hence the intellectual property laws being played here.  We don’t mind your  downloading the Scale or anything else on the page: just do not go around trying to sell it representing the work as yours.

Sinatra - Bad_Bad_Leroy_Brown - tempo mapping - Hideki Matsui version

That’s what the ® is used for.  You’ll just have to cough the 5¢ back up.  And it is not worth it (to you – to Steve Jobs, well worth it.  You?  I don’t know – I was thinking of an offer to songfacts.com to join forces.  Any opinion on that?

Sinatra - Bad_Bad_Leroy_Brown - tempo mapping - St. James Charter School - 11 trials

St. James-Spencer Summary

song title=”Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”

composer=Jim Croce

performer=Frank Sinatra

arithmetic mean speed=143.3 bpm

geometric mean speed=143.3 bpm

harmonic mean speed=143.3 bpm

average beat length=0.419 seconds

File=purchased AAC Audio file, m4a type

File Size=6.3 MB

Bit Rate=256 kbps

Sample Rate=44.1– kHz

Profile=Low Complexity

Channels=Stereo

album=Frank Sinatra, live at Carnegie Hall

Intellectual property=Frank Sinatra Enterprises, LLC, All Rights Reserved.  Manufactured and Marketed by Reprise Records, a WARNER Music Group

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Ian Andrew Schneider

James Manningsan

Meanspeed® Music Company/St. James Charter School of New Jersey

December 3, 2009

The songs “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight” are the final songs on the Beatles album called ABBEY ROAD.

There are strong feelings about this song and the way it affects people’s emotions.  There are also many speculations of the emotions of the Beatles in the songs.  These subjective opinions can be seen anywhere,

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This bpm graph features a logarithmic trendline.

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This “BPM GRAPH” as Apple® calls them (this graph was not constructed in any way uses Apple’s BPM graph app.  It’s a great app on the fly!  But I cannot work that fast.

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This graph features a linear trendline as it shows the line of advance.

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This graph features a second-degree polynomial trendline as it shows the line of advance.

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This graph is a good, inexpensive black and white representation of the line of advance.  It’s highly accurate, and suitablely printable for, like, something to check out on the toilet or throwing in  a school newspaper without spending anything on color.

/Ian Andrew Schneider/

Meanspeed® Free School

October 9, 2009