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Beauty Plus Unrequited Infatuation= Lonely: MELISSA, The Allman Brothers Band, meanemotion=Lonely, meanspeed=83.1 bpm

August 7, 2009 Ian A Schneider Comments off

 

 

contemporary tempo map - meanspeeed music public education 2

contemporary tempo map - meanspeeed music public education 2

Melissa is a song written by the Allman Brothers band based on a beautiful little girl that they used to see in the supermarket between rehearsals & recording sessions.  From the many sources I have read, there is no one “official story” as to who the girl was and who exactly was so emotional about her.  You have to deduce it was as a Monet painting of beautiful young ballet dancers. The children are adorable, yet the expression of the artist is not pedophilia (except the Bay City Rollers drummer, and he did not write their songs, anyway), the effect us bringing one back to a scene of innocence at the most carefree time in life.  Perhaps this girl in Melissa, the song, looked like someone a Bother wished was 10 years older – the teacher falls for student thing.  The 10 year gap between you and your 10th grade English teacher might have made it criminal for the two of you to hold hands.  10 years later, you’re 25 and she’s 35, well, not such a big deal anymore.  I think this song is that type of lament. This YouTube comment says it all, – “I had not seen this version, yet ….Whatever version I see confirms to me that this is one of the saddest most beutiful songs written this century. Yet it makes me soooo happy to hear it!!!!” attributed to morjohnny540, on or about 6/9/09. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqeXZ-4kb60)

So if you feel blue that this song isn’t a confident get up and go anthem, that would be your explanation as to why: TEMPO ONLY.  As I always note, well, sometimes note, tempo is to a song what the weatherperson (Al Roker, Chris Cimino, Sam Champion) is to the news (Deborah Norville, Walter Cronkite, Wolf Blitzer).  The news is the *tone* fo teh song – and the melody.  The harmony is more important than tempo also.  So said, next comes rhythm – and though tempo comes last, like the weather report, turns out that the weather can effect everything reported by the Couric’s, O’Reilly’s, Gibson’s, Willimas’, Scarborough’s and Olberman’s.  God rest the soul of Timothy Russert, the last real reporter.   Requiem Eternum † – no one else is going to put a possible truth ahead of being killed.  I do not know that TR was killed.  Given the Smith & Wesson test, ie, gun to my head, wrong answer gets your head shot off: I was watching CNN in my father in law’s hospital room when the autopsy reults, unquestioned, were more detailed than other part of Tim’s death.  That was disturbingly familiar and similar to that which David Lipton wrote about JFK: that the newspapers in Australia knew of his death before the motorcade started – so much for the “land of the free and the home of the brave” – like this song, it gets more like the “land of the  corporate slave and the home of the diffident”

 

 

contemporary tempo map - meanspeeed music public education

contemporary tempo map - meanspeeed music public education

  The Neumann-Carlton Summary  performer=The Allman Brothers Band album=Eat A Peach mean speed/average expected tempo=83.1 beats per minute. meanemotion=lonesome solitude mean beat=1.385 beats per second. average beat length=722 milliseconds per beat, a quarter note mean slow phase=1.385 cycles per second. mean pitch=354.560 Hertz, 27 cents above F4=349.228 Hertz, 63 cents below F#4/Gb4=369.994 Hertz.  So about an F.  Very sad, that tone of F.  Paul McCartney created a 50 year movement from understanding this. Ian Schneider NYC   this article is a revised and crisper version of that which was published on September 14, 2006.  As you can see, I also got very fancy learning that the color blue was subject to iPhoto® manipulation.  That one graph on the top looks way better than it used to – plus, WordPress gets the credit for holding it, not the disgraceful blogging service who’s names end in a word which rhymes with Fog’s Hot.  And diffident means- outrageously milquetoast weak when among others.  

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contemporary tempo map - meanspeeed music public education 3

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“What’s Your Name? Who’s Your Daddy?” – TIME OF THE SEASON – The Zombies – 117.9 bpm – Calibrations, Graphs, iTunes Screenshots, YouTube Entry

May 26, 2008 Ian A Schneider Comments off


Meanspeed Music Summary
song title=TIME OF THE SEASON
performer=The Zombies


expression category according to meanspeed music theory=foreboding
meanspeed/average tempo=117.9 beats per minute
average beat=0.509 seconds between beats, 2.04 seconds per measure
beat frequency=1.965 beats per second
Corresponding Pitch=251.52 Hertz
album=Sony Music 100 Years: Pop Music – The Golden Era 1951-1975
File Type=m4p
File Size=3.3 MB
File Kind=Protected AAC audio file
Bit rate=128 kbps
Sample rate=44.100 kHz

Graphs were generated by measuring groups of every common measure (four quarter-notes) ten times with Seiko 300-lap stopwatches where ten trials were averaged, coordinated and synthesized. For step by step easy method, click here or just pull from the the dropdown screen to your above left. Speed graphs were created in Microsoft’s Excel for MacIntosh 2004 on an Apple iBook G4.


Add, if you desire, the BPM on your iTunes by hitting CNTRL/I an filling in the blank. Jobs knows the tempos, though, right? Nope. Or, can you say, “save something” – I cannot tell.

Ian Schneider
May 27, 2008

Dave Matthews & The Zombies – “what’s your name? who’s your daddy?”- TIME OF THE SEASON – 40 year tempo maps

May 26, 2008 Ian A Schneider Comments off

Time of The Season is a song that was originally recorded and released in 1967 by The Zombies. Their performance chart -




The song was covered last year by the Dave Matthews Band and is available on their Weekend On The Rocks [download]. The Matthews stage performance is represented by this tempo chart


The chart above the top represents a comparison of these versions.

All charts were based on calibrations, available on request, made by Hunter Newman and supervised by James C.C. Manning. The style of meanspeed charts was developed with the inspiration of Mike “The Spike” McKnight.

Spike.

Best,
Hunter Newman
Ian Schneider