Let us go through the process by which we give you speeds and
tempi accurate enough that we stand by, vouch for and guarantee their accuracy. Further, we at
Meanspeed Music guarantee that once you get a feel for the simple yet radical mean speed music theory, your mental self-control will receive a lifetime free gift that you will never live without.
OK. Big words. Let's get to the proof. First, let us imagine that we are going on a trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - and of course we will want the song by The Talking Heads called "Wild Wild Life" on one's
playlist, or play list, depending on how many times your parents yelled at you as a child! Nothing like going over the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to the Heads! We already have purchased the album pictured below: TALKING HEADS: Popular favorites.
Okay, we have ripped the
CDs into our mac - or your computer for you Windows people - or, just purchased the album directly from
iTunes. We chose the download form, in order to get the cleanest recording.
There are many ways of playing around with the screens on
iTunes in order to play with the making of
playlists - which often is more fun than listening to that same list back again. Trust us on this, though, you geniuses: once you start going with the additional information of precision of speed in organizing your listening, to coin
a phrase, You won't go back!
Here is a look at Wild Wild Life where we chose the screen that alphabetizes the song - interesting, but helpful?
Next we tried a screen that alphabetizes the Talking Heads album. Again, interesting but how helpful is this when putting a Psyche
Playlist together? One must be psyched to go on that road trip to Philadelphia - the
Land of McNabb!
Here is "Wild Wild Life" where the
iTunes screen is alphabetized by the name of the band. What is fantastic about this is: you can keep playing around, and you cannot break the system! This is Wild Wild Life where
the albums are grouped by year - interesting, maybe. Useful for a Philly
playlist? I do not know about that!
We next tried a view where the song is listed in order of time played - here, the song, as you can see below, is 3 minutes 40 seconds - and again,
interesting, but only helpful if you are still using tape cassettes - both of you!
James Manning just took a look at that screen shot and started to snicker - I emphasize *started* - as I said - Manning, you supervise. When you start calibrating, you may start laughing! James replied, "I like a man with spunk, son, but only once - another comment like that, and you may find yourself in the dog house. Did you do *any* work last night!?"
Indeed, following the
methodology section found on these pages and started coming up with the power with which we work daily: SPEED. First we calibrated 9 trials of the song in groups of 10 beat contiguous groups, thereby providing a
seamless line of advance. The spreadsheets, once all these numbers were entered looked exactly like the screen shots of the Excel
spreadsheets- actually, these are exactly what we used, so if you try this at home, you will obtain the same speeds -
OK- Now we were getting somewhere. What did these nine trials yield? First a "Larry King Live" scatter graph upon which we embedded the formulas that showed the trend-line for each of the nine trials:
Our line graph of the 9 trials was so interesting, to Sophia Newman, especially, that we featured a similar chart as the header of the review! Here it is *in context of this explanation* of music and self-control through use of speed -
Of course, it came down to number crunching time, where the human error. No, all you beautiful people, as good as I
try to be, one of a Hunter Newman cannot be perfect! At least eight trials are needed - here nine - in order to be crunched and cut out the "Hunter Newman Human Error" factor.
Here is a crunched chart with a logarithmic trend-line. Nice work by Microsoft!
Sophia said, "what about some three-D, man? We don't do it every day, and you'd be surprised at the downloads on the 3D graphs - they are popular, Hunter." Sophia is the voice of reason, therefore we produced these graphs, again based on the spread sheets above - allowing you to do it yourself at home in different colors, different 3D views, different Y-axis values. Bill Gates, your search is below awful, for right now (writing in November 2007 - let us see what happens, man!) but your software rocks!
Who but a Gates could release a program that has essentially remained unchanged for 13 years, and is still the standard? Another use of calibration plus Excel software is below - not bad! It would take us about a year to draw the same thing - and it would not be as precise -
What about those
iTunes screen shots? When we entered the songs
BPM in the
BPM column, something done *easily* by
1) highlighting the song to be tagged with beats per minute ("
BPM"); and
2) holding down CONTROL + I; and
3) entering the
BPM in the empty box, and closing out.
Simple! This manner of looking at the song is not *better* than the
iTunes screen shots above where speed is not used - it is a NEW, DYNAMIC, SIMPLE manner to enjoy music - and *maybe* - just *maybe* once you become a speed genius by learning the speeds of the songs you love, you will achieve a sense of well being through the self-control of KNOWING the speed of the music Playing in your head!
Meanspeed-Carlton™ Music Summarycalibration and charts © 2007 by Hunter Newman. Supervised by James Manning.
trials
calibrated=9
time elapsed=1,841.58 seconds
beats measured=4,140
beats per trial=470
mean time per
trial2054.59 seconds
mean emotion according to mean speed music theory=[mixed fast]
mean speed=137.8 beats per minute
average beat=0.4354 seconds
beats per second=2.297
pitch=588 Hertz
album=Sand In The Vaseline
Kind=A
AC audio file
Size=4.3 MB
Bit Rate=160 k
bps
Sample Rate=44.100kHz
Profile=Low Complexity
Channels=Stereo
Encoded With=i
Tunes v&.0.2, Quick Time 7.1.3
Hunter Newman
6/9, 2008"Lady Madonna, Lying on the bed, Listen to the music playing in your head!" - John Lennon and Paul McCartney
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Labels: Bryan Ferry, conditioning, David Byrne, determinism, fatalism, iTunes, Jerry Lee Lewis, mathematical psychology, mental chronometry, playlist, self-control, sort by speed, sort songs by beats per minute, Talking Heads, Tortura, Wild Wild Life
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