The Beatles - 'Revolver' - "Love To You" - Nine trials, all calibrations, 2D and 3D charts - MeanSpeed Emotive category=VICTORY - speed=126.4 bpm

The 5th track on the album by The Beatles is called "Love To You". The song was written by George Harrison and features a John Lennon vocal and sitar playing by George Harrison that can only be described as unusual for a "pop" album. This April 1966 album continues to blow me away with its innovation, experimentation and creativity.

Slideshow concept by Mike "The Spike", Sophia, James, Sarah Jane, Ian, Hunter, and guess David A who has something seriously in common with George Harrison -

The song starts with a space jam by George alone - there is no tempo. The Meanspeed charts pictured above begin on the first discernible downbeat. This I took to be what in reality would be "beat 5." Why "beat 5"? because the tempo rubato in the beginning is so, well, rubato, feeling no one pulse and hearing no speed at all, I waited until I heard the loud percussion hits. Technically, beat 1 or beat 3 could have acted as the first "discernible" downbeats, however, allowing a full four drum clicks for the band to get ready starts the entire calibration on a ONE od a song, that though tonally strange, is an ordinary 4/4 common time pop song. Beats are measured in a *contiguous* manner exactly as explained in simple detail on http://www.meanspeed.com. At approximately beat 250, the band goes into an acceleration which is represented above.

After TAXMAN, ELEANOR RIGBY, I'M ONLY SLEEPING this song set s up a song a consonance. "Love To You is a challenge by the group that changed the universe.

Meanspeed Music Summary

song title="Love To You"

composer=George Harrison

performer=The Beatles

album=Revolver

average beat length=0.469 seconds

mean speed/average tempo=128.4 beats per minute

emotive category according to meanspeed music theory=victory

John St. Paul Newman/7746
June 24, 4:44 PM
Princeton, New Jersey, US

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