Ray Charles - GEORGIA ON MY MIND, 63.5 bpm - #44 the on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest - Seeing Tempo with graphs and controlling your mind. Really.

The song which ranks #44 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time is called "Georgia On My Mind" by the late Ray Charles.




I measured the speeds of the Charles ultra-classic using a Seiko 300 lap stopwatch which facilitates contiguous calibrations. James C.C. Manning supervised.

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
beats counted=220
mean time=3 minutes, 28.0 seconds
meanspeed=63.5 beats per minute
average beat=945 milliseconds
meanemotion according to meanspeed music theory=ceremony (songs between 63-69 beats per minute).



linear speed graph created by James The Senator Manning for meanspeed music © 2007


In order to see the speed, let us look at the measurements I entered into Microsoft's Excel 2004 spreadsheet program. The first sheet shows the measurements of 10 trials of the first 15 of 55 contiguous measures of 4 quarter-notes were entered and subsequently synthesized by James The Senator Manning--

Spreadsheet of contiguous measures of 4 quarter-notes in contiguous measurements were entered and subsequently synthesized by James C.C. Manning. Excel spreadsheet by Ian Schneider on which the measurements of 10 trials of the measures entered and subsequently synthesized by James C.C/ Manning



An excellent article by the folks at "The Stone" about the Ray Charles song appears at
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595889/georgia_on_my_mind




Ian Schneider
James The Senator Manning
Meanspeed Music
March 27, 2008

1970s White Silk: Boz Scaggs, Silk Degrees - ALL SONGS + ALL BPM + VIDEO is AN ABSOLUTE-BIDEN TEMPO ANALYSIS

In 1976 Boz Scaggs released his most popular commercial album, ‘Silk Degrees.’
Many people use the BPM column on their iTunes or other digital music player—it is an excellent way of consideration for songs on a playlist.
The speeds of Silk Degrees were measured as:

1. "What Can I Say"
mean speed=115 beats per minute
mean space=0.52 seconds per beat

2. "Georgia"
mean speed=136 beats per minute
mean space=0.445 seconds per beat

3. "Jump Street"
mean speed=131 beats per minute
mean space=0.46 seconds per beat

4. "What Do You Want the Girl to Do"
mean speed=134 beats per minute
mean space=0.45 seconds per beat

5. "Harbor Lights"
mean speed=61 beats per minute
mean space=0.99 seconds per beat

6. "Lowdown"
mean speed=117 beats per minute
mean space=0.515 seconds per beat

7. "It's Over"
mean speed=134 beats per minute
mean space=0.45 seconds per beat

8. "Love Me Tomorrow"
mean speed=80 beats per minute
mean space=0.75 seconds per beat



9. "Lido Shuffle"
mean speed=141 beats per minute
mean space=0.425 seconds per beat

10. "We're All Alone"
mean speed=63 beats per minute
mean space=0.95 seconds per beat

/Ian Andrew Schneider/
April 3, 2007