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The SECRET Speed of “EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE” and Marilyn Monroe’s anniversary of death - Do you really want to know? Does Sting want you to know?



Tonight, August 5th is the 45 anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death. Like many in New York, the entire Meanspeed staff will be at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Some say this death has been one, as Nigel Tufnel of Spinal tap might say, “Better left unsolved, really.” One has to asked: HOW MANY MEN WERE CREEPING AROUND HER WITH THIS SONG’S THEME?

In a similar way, with a chord progression that could not be any more ordinary, along with an ordinary melody, bass and guitar: HOW IS THE SONG SO SPOOKY? At the exact speed of foreboding, songs between 114-118 beats per minute, the speed is the secret. The element of spookiness is undeniable, true and never explained properly. Would Sting want us to know? Do you really want to know? The secret of the haunted nature of Every Breath You Take is: speed. Why is the speed of foreboding still an inside the inside the industry secret?

meanspeed=117.4 beats per minute
meanemotion=foreboding

Ian Schneider
Sarah Jane Bristol
August 7, 2008

Stevie Wonder: “Superstition” speed=101.3 bpm. Speeds, tempo sheet music of #74 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time


The #74 ranked song on the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Song of All-Time is called “Superstition” was a single from the album Songs In The Key Of Life.



Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder is the single best musical effort where one person was the key operative in composition, performance of all instruments and production. That is only my word and opinion, by definition personal and therefore not speaking on behalf of the Meanspeed Music Company in general, as James T.S. Manning, our chief calibrator, is absent from the office today, and might find a Paul McCartney compilation of which he would offer as “better.” This is just the staff having some fun. We know: James and his Beatles! To which Sophia and I usually reply: it’s not a single effort, as Stevie’s. So, James, enjoy your day off, you will get a chance to speak. I’m not My fine man, even factoring the fact that Stevie is blind-Songs In The Key Of Life is a better effort than Band On The Run, as much as we love that also. James Manning, this is my message, as I did your work for you today: the “Stevie Wonder is a musical genius” joke? No joke!

James just called. Jeff beck is the guitarist on this song–uh oh!

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE EXPLAINS
Wonder debuted this hard blast of funk live while opening for the Rolling Stones in the summer of 1972, intent on expanding his audience beyond Motown. The twenty-two-year-old former child star had written it at the drum set, humming the other parts to himself. Wonder had been collaborating with Jeff Beck and initially intended for Beck to record the song, but when Beck hadn’t finished his album it became the first single from Talking Book — and Wonder’s first Number One hit in nearly a decade.

The speed summary -
meanspeed=101.3
meanemotion=natural
phase=1.69 cycles per second
meanspace=0.592 seconds per beat
corresponding pitch=432.21 Hertz, 68.5 cents above G#4/Ab4=415.305 Hertz, 31.5 cents below A4=440.000 Hertz.


Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music
July 31,2008

The Young & The Restless features MOTHERLESS CHILD as sung by Bryton as Devon Hamilton and Jamia Simone Nash as Anastasia Hamilton at 70 bpm - Meanspeed Music tempo graphics and contiguous calibration, emotion and tempo analysis

  1. All tempo graphics © 2008. Meanspeed Music Company. Use By Permission.

    All tempo graphics © 2008. Meanspeed Music Company. Use By Permission.

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Sharon Case
Born Sharon Case
February 9, 1971 (1971-02-09) (age 37)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

Sharon Case (born February 9, 1971 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress.

Peter Bergman (born June 11, 1953) is a three time Emmy Award-winning American soap opera actor. The son of an American United States Navy officer, he was born in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He has been nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor for his portrayal of Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless fifteen times (1990-2002, 2007, 200 8) and once for his portrayal of Cliff Warner on “All My Children

  1. On Friday, July 25, 2008, The Young and the Restless featured Bryton as Devon Hamilton and the young female singer who is called Anastasia on the program sang at the annual Genoa City Gala to raise money for the arts for public schools.

BRYTON, singing MOTHERLESS CHILD

BRYTON, singing MOTHERLESS CHILD

Devon Hamilton is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, played by actor/musician Bryton since 2004. In 2007, Bryton won an Emmy for the role.

MOTHERLESS CHILD

MOTHERLESS CHILDAll tempo graphics © 2008. Meanspeed Music Company. Use By Permission.

Jamia Simone Nash

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Jamia Simone Nash
Born August 21, 1996 (1996-08-21) (age 11)
Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.

Jamia Simone Nash (born August 21, 1996) is an American child singer and actress. She has sometimes been billed as just Jamia.

During the gala, a song that could be sang in different manners at different speeds was striking. In my house, my mom is fond of saying , “we were dysfunctional before it was fashionable to be that way.” While my mom did introduce me to the amazingly fantastic CBS drama that is all about family, what we have all come top realize in the United States at least is that even the functional families have their dysfunctions.

This song about keeping your chin up in the face of literally feeling like a motherless child is sung at the slow end of grace, where songs between 70-76 beats per minute generally emote poised grace, where the similar 63-69 bpm range tends to reflect a musician emoting ritual, ceremony and romance. The two featured young actors singing the song have overcome very hard times, and they are indeed happy, poised and graceful at this ceremony.

Meanspeed Music Summary

song=MOTHERLESS CHILD (classic Negro Spiritual)
performers=Bryton, Anastasia with choir
special event=The Young and the Restless, Friday, July 25 “The Gala”
number of measurements=10
total beats calibrated=2,100
time passed, total=1,885.53 seconds
meanspeed=70 beats per minute
average beat=850 milliseconds
mean-emotion=grace

Ian Andrew Schneider

July 28, 2008