April 21, 2008

Contiguous Calibration - WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS - meanspeed conjecture analysis of tempo elements with offers of proof - precise bpm




This chart represents the speed of the song "With A Little Help From My Friends." The handwritten [lyrics] are where they were calibrated in a contiguous manner exactly as explained on meanspeed.com.“With A Little Help From My Friends” is the second track, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, on The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.



You may follow each contiguous calibration of each 10-beat group:
1-10 - "What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and / 11-20 - walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I'll / 21-30 - sing you a song and I'll try not to sing out of key! Oh / 31–40 - I get by with a little help from my friends - Mm, I get high
/ 41-50 - with a little help from my friends - Mm, I’m gonna try with a little / 51-60 – help from my friends! / 61-70 - What do I do when my love is away? / 71-80 - Does it worry you to be alone? / 81-90 - How do I feel by the end of the day? Are you sad because you're / 91-100 - On your own? No, I get by with a little help from my friends / 101-110 -Oh, I get high with a little help from my friends / 111-120 - Mm, I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends! Do you / 121-130 - Need anybody? I need / 131-140 - Somebody to love! Could it be anybody? / 141-150 - I want somebody to love / 151-160 - Would you believe in a love at first sight? Yes, I'm / 161-170 - Certain that it happens all the time! What do you / 171-180 - See when you turn out the light? I can't tell you, but I know it's mine! / 181-190 - Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends! / 191-200 - Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends! Oh, I’m gonna / 201-210 Try with a little help from my friends! Do you / 211-220 - Need anybody I just need someone to love / 221-230 Could it be anybody / 231-240 I want somebody to love - Oh, I get / 241-250 By with a little help from my friends! Mm, Gonna try with a / 251-260 - Little help from my friends Oh! I get high with a little help from my / 261-270 – friends. Yes, I get by with a little help from my friends / 271-280 - with a little help from my friends!!!"

These meanspeed charts are different because nothing even remotely like them exist anywhere - except from where they have been "borrowed" from this page or other meanspeed places online. We are flattered by the borrowing - but letting us know would be not only a moral thing to do - it would make us feel good! Wouldn't you want the same notice - especially when unique information is vouched for as scientifically accurate and free of charge. Try going anywhere in any space - cyberspace, outerspace, real space - and finding information as this. If you find it, please let us know!!! We will stop publishing. Please know the thrill of doing so much work with a guarantee that no one has ever done it before. And take a song as this. Seriously, if you were to gather every piece of information about this song, would you would not get through it it 50 lifetimes? Probably not. Notwithstanding, I do not think you will find anything as we present in an online space or even professorial desk. An engineer's booth, sure. But try getting the information out of a top flight engineer! They are paid to keep recording secrets. Duh. Because of lack of alternative of finding out how fast the song really goes, and just pieces of the song, but the entire song as a contiguous piece, we could have tried to make a gadget or retail-therapy tool by which you would be promised, like the charlatans (Mozart Effect Crowd of Smarm) out there, you can gain a new way to change your mood. No, a song like this, with its music irony: using a speed most often expresses in contemporary music with a more raw lust with a simple strong desire to *connect* -


That is about all we can say that is new about With A Little Help From My Friends is that as we repeat - the lust for connection is on the side of the performer - here, Ringo Starr and the Beatles. If you are feeling lonely, playing this song is more likely to make you feel *more* lonely! Hence, the reason to want to understand the meanspeed music conjecture. Knowing what speed makes you feel leas lonely and what speed makes you feel like competing and what speeds are best for your sex life - that is great stuff, and we do not even ask for a thing. People as ourselves exist (goodness lives).



Meanspeed-Carlton Summary, supervised by James C.C. Manning
song title=With A Little Help From My Friends
composer=John Lennon and Paul McCartney
mean time per trial=150.11 seconds
beats per trial=280
average beat=536 milliseconds
mean speed/average tempo=111.9 beats per minute
meanspeed conjecture category/mean emotion=lust



An excellent article on Ringo can be found here:

http://medisinmusicforthemasses.wordpress.com/historically-influential-drummers/.


Personally, what freaks me out the most is that Ringo is a left handed man who played in a right handed style. If Paul was not *also* left handed, would the Beatles have been, well, who they are?



Ian Andrew Schneider

Meanspeed Music Research Labs

New Jersey, United States


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