Meanspeed® Music Review

Fleetwood Mac recorded and released  “Landslide” in the 1970s.  Its tempo is ~79 4/5ths BPM, a speed that on a Confidence level, compared to other tempo ranges, 79-84 BPM are not necessarily desperate, lonely or as in Eminem’s STAN, with major help from Dido,  ~80 BPM, desperately lonely.

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There are other expression of this loneliness: Foreigner, I WANNA KNOW WHAT LOVE IS – that is misery, trust me.  And the WE WILL ROCK YOU chant?  That is ~82.  Sets an atmosphere of fear – well, it did in 1986, and now it’s *played out* you stadium music programmers!)

Bruce Hornsby and Pat Metheny take the high road out of loneliness in THE TIDE IS HIGH, ~ 80 BPM.  This song is honored by Manningsan and me as ‘the exception that proves the rule,’ is same song’s optimism, especially in Pat’s solo on the key change.

And another way, as here, to deal with being lonely – face it and realize that your Stevie Nicks at 20-something and life is, well, pretty good.   However, heartache is heartache, even if you are Stevie at 22.

Yesterday I saw my screen saver had produced the tempo map show in this page.  I thought: this is a song good enough to have an album made around the one song: have Eminem create his version, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, Dave Matthews.  As as EP, I’d but that without sampling it at all.

Have a great night,

Ian A Schneider

@meanspeed

Phil Collins’s first major single was ”Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now).”

According to the people’s encyclopedia, wikipedia, ” The song was the main theme for the 1984 film of the same name, and first appeared on its soundtrack. It is a ballad in which its protagonist implores his/her ex-lover to “take a look at me now,” knowing that reconciliation is “against all odds” but worth a try. It has been covered by several artists.”

/Mariano Carlton/

/James Manning-san/

NJ Free School

A Division of Meanspeed® Music Education

February 13, 2010

The Newman Scale, © 2006-2010

John Lennon had two favorite slow speed ranges.

His Anglo-American speed of slowness is embodied in the songs MIND GAMES.  As you can see by the Newman Tempo Scale, the songs with beats per minute (bpm) 63-69, ritual, ceremony and tradition are predictive of emotions of the one *expressing* the emotion.  Simply because the one who is expressing an emotion does not mean a thing about how one FEELS the emotion in response to the same song.

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When Howard “the Joe” Schneider wants to get psyched up for a tennis match, and needs a rhythmic tape loop to run in his head in order that he reach that FLOW state we all seek so much, he gets pumped by sings at this speed.  In fact, Bette Middler and Neil Diamond at this speed work well for *him*.  Me?  I can play pretty well when I get a 94 bpm thing going.

As Germans proved in the late 1800s (all subsequent tested and duly confirmed by people as that of a Mach, Getty, Epstein, Repp, Clynes, Sachs, Levitin) that a preference for speed is not a one speed fits all thing in two ways.  One, the speed that we LIKE to hear has no correlate as that which we play (even if we are not musicians – as Lennon/McCartney said, “Listen to the music playing in your head,” and that’s what we all basically do).  I tend to play like an old Irish dude playing 6/8 song at 150 bpm.  These anomalies were proven again by the French research professor PAUL FRAISSE.

OK: so you are thinking, well, man, doesn’t that mean all speed is relative, there are no absolutes?  My reply: yes, *people* are on each other more appreciative of some speeds more than others, and people will play the same speed with a savage propensity to stay THE SAME OVER DECADES , if not life.  So if you’ve followed this site alone, you have seen James Taylor speed, Elton John, Eric Clapton speed.  Not to say that every song by Taylor is recorded in studio at 72-76 bpm, where any time james hits 77 1/2 his unconscious hits a Too Fast switch, and slowed down.  Enter His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his assertion that 40 Hertz is the ideal prayer speed.  40 Hertz is 2,400 bpm. Cut in half 5 times: one gets 75 bom, the speed of perfect grace.  Enter the song A Whiter Shade of Pale.

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John Lennon was known to have spent much down time with Procol Harem’s song, the most played song in the history of England’s BBC radio (“we skipped the light fandango, turned cartwheels cross the floor/I ws feeling kinda seasick/the crowd yelled out for more/the room was humming harder as the , etc/”) all a variation, recorded in the key of C and not the G as the song on which it is based: Air on the G String by Johann Sebastian Bach, in reality the second moment of JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto Number II in D major.  The song is all 40 Hertz area: it’s that speed which the Dalia Lama preaches.  In that area, just by the Beatles: Let It Be and Hey Jude *define* this James Taylor area.  The song Imagine defines the same area.

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An unfortunate play on words in the phrase “mean speed music hypothesis” is that the reason James Taylor, Sir Paul McCartney, John Lennon and for you who need to know, 15,000 pieces of music all calibrated with digital sources using quartz/lap SEIKO digital and Nike digital timepieces, with much help in finding what give me the most precision, ONLINE SPORTS of Texas, UNited States, a company who has made a contribution to a FREE school – good people in that way, and I so encourage anyone wanting to make their own tempo maps, back my work up, or take my work and prove it wrong – and those of you who follow this site and want to make your own maps of the same songs: check them out.  Many people talk a good game when they say, “Oh, a free school based on learning music tempo.  What a great idea!”  But those who come up with the money for a severely NOT for profit are RARE, and ONLINE SPORTS stepped up on their own.  They did not ask for a mention, by the way.  I just spent over 12 year hunting down every retail store in all of New York City, including Paragon’s, Herman’s and Models, no one came close to the Texans.

As Rob Reiner once said, Enough of my yapping.  Look at what happens when the speed exceeds ~77.459666… beats per minute, ie √60″ x 10^-2 or .774569666…” between per beat.  Am I wrong?  Is the Newman scale oversimplified?  You tell me.

Best,

Ian Andrew Schneider

New Jersey Free School,

a division of the

Meanspeed® Music Company

February 6, 2010

(SPECIAL SUPER BOWL COMMENTARY BY  THE RIAA’s [Jim Deluva]:

“I’m guessing: Saints 41, Colts 37.  Shockey, Bush, Brees and a lack of men of size to stop them on the Colts side.  Jonathan Vilma leading Saints defensive attack that will show how Vilma received *nothing but A’s* in college.  Plus, 2005, Manning son, Peyton wins for Indianapolis.  In 2007, his Manning quarterback brother Elijah wins again for New York.  But of this greatest NFL family that ever was, and, given the probable player lockout next year, ever *will be* has never seen dad Archie’s New Orléans Saints in the equation.  Then again, there is the beauty of football: the athletic skills are so evenly matched, the practice and film study so extensive, that it will come down to a Good Day or Bad Day thing.   On a good day, Peyton Manning is not beatable – on a bad day, he is human as he nearly lost to the 9-7 Jets two weeks ago.  On a bad Day, Jeremy Shockety yells at his teammates for never getting a pass, gets a ball thrown his way and drops it – on a good day, Shockey plays with the ferocity of that of a Mike Singletary or Joe Klecko.  Reggie Bush has a perfect stage ti simple run over people and make us forget the best running back that has ti this point ever played – that 2,003 yard in 14 games Mr. Simpson.  So I’m thinking: OJ never even made the Super Bowl.  Reggie will lead the Saints to victory of he wants to turn the page on US history, 20th  —> 21st century”  – Jimmy Deluva – peace everybody!