November 21, 2007

Meanspeed Review - "Gimme Shelter" - The Rolling Stones - hard times, search for comfort leads to victory speed

Gimme Shelter expressed visually in radar chart form



The 38th ranked song on Rolling Stone Magazine's list called The Greatest 500 Songs of All-Time is called "Gimme Shelter." This song was written by Keith Richards and Mick Jagger and performed by The Rolling Stones.



The illustrations in this article show speed as a visualization. Above is a radar chart based on the measurements of contiguous groups of ten beats. In summary:

beats measured=530
mean time=4 minutes, 27.6 seconds
meanspeed=118.8 beats per minute
meanspace=0.505 seconds per beat
meanemotion according to meanspeed music theory=victory.






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