Total Speed - "Grey Street" - Dave Matthews Band - average tempo=104.1 bpm - Who cares if your friend knows the tempo but you do not?

The Dave Matthews Band usually plays Grey Street within 2 beats a minute of the mean speed. You could imagine keeping this time in your head to keep self control to "Grey Street" or *any* song of psyche-itude that work for you. It has the timing, groove, rhythm and speed of a song which predictably emote a comfortable and natural expression. Music in any genre, from industrial to classical, is predictably natural, confident, relaxed and cool with its message in this range of around 98-105 beats per minute. "Grey Street" has been recorded and sold digitally many times in various performances. Therefore it provides a way to show how the Dave Matthews Band varies its original speed performance, and how you might start to be able to control, as John Lennon and Paul McCartney called "the music playing in your head."



In September 2002, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and the Dave Matthews Band coordinated efforts to bring about: a benefit concert in New York City's Central Park - by proportion, the largest open space in any major city with such density - by the band, all revenue going to New York City public schools.

The schools benefited, and no one with a heart can American can wonder through Central Park, walking around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir without feeling something magical - especially at sunrise - most especially on the shortest day of the year.

Happy Solstice!


Meanpeed Summary
song="Grey Street"
performer=Dave Matthews Band
special event=live from Central Park, September 2002
average tempo (meanspeed)=104.1 beats per minute
beats per second=1.74
mean emotion according to meanspeed music theory=natural
average beat length=576 milliseconds
corresponding pitch=444 Hertz.

Ian Schneider
December 20, 2007