Enter Sandman - Metallica - Meanspeed-Carlton Analysis of Tempo Psychology. The Speed of Victory, Perfectly Performed. Contiguous Calibration Charts+

This is a song played squarely in the speed of VICTORY: Enter Sandman, by Metallica.

The mean speed, or the speed of the song expressed as beats per minute on this live recording= 123.8 beats per minute.
The mean space, or time between each beat= 485 milliseconds.
The beat frequency on the recording = 2.063 beats per second.




The mean frequency, the speed of the song expressed as cycles per second= 2.063 Hertz.
The corresponding pitch= 5528.213 Hertz in equal temperament, 16 cents above C5=523.251 Hertz, and 84 cents below C#5/Db5=554.365 Hertz. For more on tone frequency, sound vibration and their correspondence to beats per minute, see Stephen Jay's The Theory of Harmonic Rhythm, linked with Stephen's kind permission on meanspeed.com.
The graphs are based on a spreadsheet generated with this method:
a) I calibrated groups of every single measure (four quarter-notes) ten times with Seiko 300-lap stopwatches;
b) Ten trials were averaged, coordinated and synthesized in Microsoft's Excel for MacIntosh 2004 on an Apple iBook G4 as hardware. One of the graphs derived from the results, in a radar graph style was printed on an Epson CX4600, scanned on same printing device.
The numerical coordinates are available upon request.

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Ian Schneider
Princeton, NJ
July 1, 2008