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Happy 2009!

The tempo mapping - the cataloging of the tempo, or speed, of each Beatles song on their album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band continues with the first track of the post-Revolver era of contemporary music. The opening song makes brilliant use tempo acceleration, as the song accelerates, in a sinusoidal way, from a section of renewal speed (85-89 bpm) to enthusiasm (90-97 bpm) to natural (98-105 bpm). The average tempo suitably sits in the middle of enthusiasm - could there be a better way to begin an album? For over 35 years total, Phil Collins and Pat Metheny, both huge fans of the Beatles, began their concerts at this speed - Phil with "Hand In Hand"at 96 bpm and the Pat Metheny Group with "Phase Dance" also dancing around this speed that is indicative of the musician having the most confident of anticipation.

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Meanspeed-Carlton Summary, supervised by River Newman
song title=Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club band
performer=The Beatles
composer=John Lennon & Paul McCartney

harmony=G major, while beginning on the secondary dominant A7 and ending on a C7 which leads into track 2, With A Little Help From My Friends in E major
average time per trial=1,064.7 seconds
beats per trial=170
average Beat=626 milliseconds
mean speed/average tempo=95.8 beats per minute
emotional concept predicted by meanspeed music theory=enthusiasm
actual emotional expression=you are the listener!

Happy New Year. In 2009 we will try to continue to save your life. Steve Jobs will continue to take your money. Then we'll take your money!

Meanspeed Music Summary
song title="Yellow Submarine"
Words & Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
album='Revolver'
Intellectual Property=© Copyright 1966 Northern Songs. All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.

In the Original Score of the Beatles' catalog, it is noted that certain nuances of rhythm must be *felt* - they have not been noted. I hope to rectify this to some extent with charts such as that above, which illustrate:
1) the performance line of the song;
2) mean speed, most often the average tempo of the song;
3) moving average of the song;
4) line of advance of the song as a function of time, above as centiseconds on the first (left) Y-Axis;
5) trendline of the song as a third degree polynomial, formula courtesy of Microsoft Excel.

trials calibrated=9
beats measured=2,520
time elapsed, total=1,364.78 seconds
time elapsed, average per trial=151.64 seconds
average tempo/mean speed=110.8 beats per minute
average Beat Length=542 milliseconds
emotive category according to mean speed music theory found at http://www.meanspeed.com/graphs
most interesting element of the song unrelated to tempo=the song is in Db major, even though most popular sheet music simplifies this to D major. Playing it at this correct key changes the sound. The key is courtesy of the excellent Hal Leonard transcription.
most interesting rhyme='ease' with 'need' -

"So we live a life of ease,
every one of us has all we need..."

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The mass stupidity online regrading so-called experts as: MIXMEISTER, BEATUNES, OR AN Y OTHER SOFTWARE PROGRAM or book that claims they know what tempo in music indicates: they do not. I am sorry to be putting you in position of being outright thieves, because you take money for that which you know is wholly ineffective yet 'sounds true' and cannot be disproved. Meanspeed™ Music has been make simple, clear, easy sense of that which you have twisted and turned into a desperate bid for money. I guess you have to eat, but when you know your "work" is obsolete, irrelevant or at best in DIRE need of any up grade, I wonder how you all sleep. You people at Songfacts.com and Songmeanings.net: like the Chinese, you make money from stealing the intellectual property of others, flaunting in in such a raw, brazen and gauche manner that instead of arresting you people just sort of wonder: how can you so violently break the law, make money, use miles of advertising space for music in which you had no part in writing, performing, transcribing or calibrating in any matter whatever? Because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) is busy with the war that was declared against the United States in 1997 and was not taken seriously until 2001. You guys just amaze me. What you do is two steps below shoplifting.

Meanspeed™ Music has a win-win situation as we have no public affiliation with Apple®, iTunes® , Google® , Microsoft® or Sony®. The academics, except for five, Dan Levitin, PhD, (x3) and Russell van Gelder , MD, PhD (x7) and three others they could name are looking for a Coke Machine in the Saudi desert with blindfolds on - but boy can they write about how important the description of getting nothing accomplished after decades of studies! Come on, can you blame them? Depends on whether you are a kind person or a jerk. What would we do if we sold out to the West Coast? Maybe it's not such a bad thing that one white New York lawyer (Schneider) and a black New Jersey caretaker (Newman) take on 3 companies that are bigger than the GDP of Russia.

/Ian Andrew Schneider/
/River Newman/
December 31, 2008