Carole King, "So Far Away" meanemotion=graceful, meanspeed=72.0 bpm
The speed graphs above represent Carole King, "So Far Away ."
Although the lyrics speak about be lonely for an old friend, the emotional expression of the speed indicates a graceful and poised person at peace and in a proverbial Good space. After all, Carole sings enthusiastically, "There's so many things I've yet to find!"
A friend of the singer, once a close friend in emotion and in geographical space, is now removed by geographical space and the demands of musical fame and the “road tour”. King expressions an unconditional love which says: “[I unconditionally would welcome seeing you, any time, any place, and my life would be more emotionally fulfilled than it is in missing you now].” The song was written for, and included as a single released from, King’s classic ‘Tapestry.’ The song has been covered many times, with James Taylor’s version being a well-known example. The song is played in the key of D major, loaded with sweet sounding major 7th and 6th chords, with the leads back to the tonic of D being smooth and lush.
King’s ‘Tapestry’ is on almost everyone’s list of 50 best of the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. The song emits a glowing unreserved, unconditional love, despite ‘troubled times’ of missing a friend and missing societal closeness, the It takes A Village type.
As a typical singer-songwriter performance of the early 1970s, this song was recorded live, that is, there was no metronome or electronic device guiding a tempo based on steady percussion. So said, though the song has some wide tempo variations which occur often in this recording, peaking at 75.5 bpm and some measure as slow as 68.5 beats per minute--yet, ‘So Far Away’ maintains its 72 bpm linear trend speed in an even way from start to end. Linear and logarithmic graphs all available on request for any song by contacting me. Overall: merciful, charitable, compassionate, tolerant graceful speed of 72 bpm.
The MeanFrequencies of So Far Away are:
meanspeed=72.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=graceful
meanspace=0.833 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.20 cycles per second
meanpitch=307.20 Hertz, 77.5 cents above D4=293.665 Hertz, 22.5 cents below D#4/Eb4=311.127 Hertz.
Ian Schneider
28 September 2006
NYC
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