"If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills/Well the landslide will bring it down"--Fleetwood Mac, LANDSLIDE, 79.8 BPM, meanemotion=loneliness

speed charts © 2007 meanspeed.com

One of the most powerful song of the 1970s was LANDSLIDE by Fleetwood Mac. Above you will see speed charts which I created this morning. I used the basic method as described on http://meanspeed.com: I measured each beat of each measure in groups of four quarter notes. After averaging the nine trials, I crunched the numbers and created the graphs in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. The numbers I measured are available on request.

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
beats calibrated per trial=252
trials measured=10
mean time per trial=3 minutes, 10.05 seconds
standard tempo/mean speed=79.8 beats per minute
average beat length=752 milliseconds
mean-emotion according to the meanspeed music conjecture=loneliness

Ian Andrew Schneider
meanspeed.com
April 29, 2007