Dr. Robert - The Beatles - a visual tempo mapping analysis in the style of the meanspeed music conjecture

Meanspeed Summary

song title=Dr. Robert

Composer=John Lennon and Paul McCartney

performer=The Beatles

album=Revolver

trials calibrated=10

mean speed/average beat, half note=81.8 beats per minute

average beat=733 milliseconds

mean emotion according to the meanspeed conjecture=loneliness

Dr. Robert is a song that was recorded in England in the spring of 1966. These charts illustrate that which normal sheet music cannot - the precise tempo of the song. The charts allow, in a simple way, a viewer to see the speed at any given 10 beat interval. Beyond that, we see where that speed was played in relation to:
1) the mean speed, usually the average tempo;
2) speed of other intervals of identical beat length;
3) the moving average.





Ian Andrew Schneider
Mike The Spike McKnight
March 24, 2008