Meanspeed® Music Review

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On May 27, 2010, the New Jersey Free School analyzed 3 songs and measured speed in the form of contemporary tempo maps: “Fields of Gold” by Sting, “It’s Gonna Get Better” by Genesis and  Beach Boys, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.”

Please direct any questions to njfreeschool@gmail.com and you will be treated as any other person.  No online follower is considered more important than another.

Thank You,

Ian A Schneider

JamesMmanning-san

New Jersey Free School/meanspeed® music nonprofit education

May 27, 2010

Sting - no mp3 - no lyrics - Fields of Gold meanspeed_bpm_scan

Cubase®, the mediocre company, was looking at the post contained on this site on the Led Zeppelin song called STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN.  Unable to recreate anything I did by computer exposes Cubase®’s severe limits and over-representations of its quality.

stairway to heaven gtr solo - NJ Free School - image symmetry

I received an email from same Cubase® asking in angry envy: “oh yeah, what is the speed of the SOLO?”

Only after a phone call from same company told me to PUT UP OR SHUTUP did I decide to put the solo up, all 20 measures, beat by beat.  Eat it, Cubase®.  For the rest of y’all: do not look at it if you want to keep your “mystery” element of the song.  Anyone wanting to see the solo: the admission is priceless, therefore, FREE.

stairway to heaven gtr solo - NJ Free School - LOVE

This is the solo, recreated by a YouTube guitarist, in question:

James Manningsan and new intern OLIVIA STRAIGHT worked days, days and many days to make sure our measurements of tempo correct, because it is not every day one can talk back at the bold-yet-irrelevant arrogance at Cubase®, America’s biggest advertiser of tempo software that DOES NOT HAVE THE REQUISITE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO “DISCERN” exactly where the beat is.  If such software existed, robots would have been outdancing humans for over a decade.  CUBASE: how ya doing ay those silent beat algorithms?  Be real, Cubase: I love you all, but I would appreciate candor and a STOPPING OF HYPERBOLE AND FSALSE PROMISES!  Look what happened to the Stanford fraud.  Look at how MixMeister is being exposed for that which they can do well – same as you – and that which they cannot, same as you.  Who is buying this?  As the Beatles said, “THINK FOR YOURSELF.”

/Mariano Carlton/

/James Manningsan/

/Oliva the intern/

march 29. 2009

NEW JERSEY FREE SCHOOL/meanspeed®-carlton time measurement

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