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Tough, Gruff & Artistic – “I Walk The Line” – Johnny Cash – The Psychology of the Speed of the Ideal Moment: Mean Saccade=569 milliseconds

May 31, 2008 · Comments Off

The Top 30 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time List in ascending order of speed


The Top 30 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time List


First, I had no idea that Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon had been friends!

The number 30 ranked song on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time is I Walk the Line, written, performed and recorded by Johnny Cash.

As “Help!” by The Beatles–this song is in 2/2 time as the half note rather than the usual quarter note is getting the beat. On The Beatles song, we judge that although the sheet music indicates the slower (by half, by definition) speed ought to be counted as the most prominent beat, we saw that words from Lennon and McCartney indicated that they had “[sold out to a fast pop beat that was not what they had in mind for the song].”

This is Cash at his most raw. The slow half notes get the beat. The Rolling Stone article at http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595875/i_walk_the_line is most recommended.

Meanspeed Music Summary
beats counted=280
mean time=2 minutes, 39.3 seconds
average tempo (meanspeed)=105.4 beats per minute
average beat length=0.569 seconds per beat
meanemotion according to Meanspeed Music Theory=natural

Ian Schneider

May 31, 2008

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The Meanspeed Conjecture & The Tempo of ‘Baroque Pop’ – The Beach Boys, "Wouldn’t It Be Nice" – Contiguous Calibrations, Charts & Clean Links

May 31, 2008 · 1 Comment










Wouldn’t It Be Nice by the Beach Boys is a song of lilting victory and love. Most of the song travels along at the sweet speed of victory; the unusual break heads right down to the speed of natural for 3 or 4 measures, only to return to victorious speed.

The Meanspeed-Carlton Summary -
mean speed/average tempo=123.0 beats per minute.
mean emotion=victory
average beat length=0.488 seconds
mean slow phase=2.05 beats per second.
corresponding pitch=524.800 Hertz, 5 cents above C5=523.251 Hertz, 95 cents avove C#5/Db5=554.365 Hertz.

A publicly owned verbal history of the song is provided by your friends and mine: Wikipedia.org -
“From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“Wouldn’t It Be Nice”
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” cover
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Pet Sounds
Released July 11, 1966
Format Vinyl
Recorded Unknown
Genre Baroque Pop
Length 5 min 11 sec for both songs
Label Capitol Records
Producer(s) Brian Wilson
Chart positions

• #8 (US) • #2 (UK)
The Beach Boys singles chronology
“Sloop John B”/”You’re So Good To Me”
(1966)
—-
“Cool, Cool Water”/”Forever”
(1971) “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”/”God Only Knows”
(1966)
—-
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” (live at the Big Sur Folk Festival)
(1971) “Good Vibrations”/”Let’s Go Away For Awhile”
(1966)
—-
“Long Promised Road”/”Deirdre”
(1971)”

“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” is the opening song on the classic 1966 album Pet Sounds and one of the most widely recognized songs by the American pop group The Beach Boys. It was composed and produced by Brian Wilson, with lyrics by Tony Asher, and the lead vocal was sung by Brian Wilson with Mike Love singing lead vocals on the bridge.

The layering of harmonies upon harmonies, and lyrics on top of harmonies make this one of the quintessential Beach Boys songs. In the Endless Summer documentary, Brian Wilson described this song as “what children everywhere go through… wouldn’t it be nice if we were older, or could run away and get married”.

Brian was quoted as saying “Listen for the rockin‘ accordions and the ethereal guitars in the introduction. Tony and I had visualized a scene. We had a feeling in our hearts, like a vibration. We put it into music, and it found its way onto tape. We really felt good about that record.”

In a 1996 interview Brian stated that “‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ was not a real long song, but it’s a very ‘up’ song. It expresses the frustrations of youth, what you can’t have, what you really want and you have to wait for it.”

Wilson also used the title of this song for the title of his autobiography.”

Ian Schneider
31 May 2008
Princeton, N.J.
U.S.A.


The Beach BoysWouldn’t It Be Nice Sheet Music (Digital Download)

See and download The Beach Boys Wouldn’t It Be Nice sheet music in your browser. Tempo: Moderately. Metronome: q = 112. Style: Surf
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wouldn t it be nice beach boys

Wouldn’t It Be Nice” (Brian Wilson / Tony Asher) Intro: (A) (F#m) (Bm) (D) …. talk about it (resume original tempo) F Wouldn’t it be nice Good night,
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WOULDN’T IT BE NICE (TRADUÇÃO) de The Beach Boys no VAGALUME

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Beach BoysWouldn’t It Be Nice Tab – Music Lyrics Chord

Music Lyrics Chords Wouldn’t It Be Nice Beach Boys Tab. talk about it (resume original tempo) F Wouldn’t it be nice Good night, baby Sleep tight, baby.
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Beach Boys – Wouldnt It Be Nice (fullsong) Guitar Video Tab

Wouldnt It Be Nice guitar video tab by Beach Boys, www.guitarvideotabs.com …. lets talk about it (resume original tempo) F Wouldn’t it be nice Good night,
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Beach Boys Guitar Chords for – Wouldnt It Be Nice Tabs, Chords, Lyrics

Guitar Beach Boys Chords, Wouldnt It Be Nice Tablatures, Chords, Tabs. But lets talk about it (resume original tempo) F Wouldn’t it be nice
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Wouldn’t It Be Nice by The Beach Boys guitar tab @ XGuitar.com

The Beach Boys / Pet Sounds (1966) / Wouldn’t It Be Nice guitar tab …. C7 But lets talk about it (resume original tempo) F Wouldn’t it be nice Good night,
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The Beach Boys

There’s no danger for the buyer when he hears ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice‘ open with a nice …… Its exact quality is hotly debatable among Beach Boys fans,
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Beach Boys – ( WOULDNT IT BE NICE TAB )

Beach Boys – Wouldnt It Be Nice. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” (Brian Wilson …. But lets talk about it (resume original tempo) F Wouldn’t it be nice Good night,
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Beach boys “Wouldnt it be nice” Guitar chords

Here is the Guitar chords for “Wouldnt it be nice” by Beach boys. Verse 1: F Wouldn’t it be nice … Bb Gm7 And we wouldn’t .. C7 F And wouldn’t it be .
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“What’s Your Name? Who’s Your Daddy?” – TIME OF THE SEASON – The Zombies – 117.9 bpm – Calibrations, Graphs, iTunes Screenshots, YouTube Entry

May 26, 2008 · Comments Off


Meanspeed Music Summary
song title=TIME OF THE SEASON
performer=The Zombies


expression category according to meanspeed music theory=foreboding
meanspeed/average tempo=117.9 beats per minute
average beat=0.509 seconds between beats, 2.04 seconds per measure
beat frequency=1.965 beats per second
Corresponding Pitch=251.52 Hertz
album=Sony Music 100 Years: Pop Music – The Golden Era 1951-1975
File Type=m4p
File Size=3.3 MB
File Kind=Protected AAC audio file
Bit rate=128 kbps
Sample rate=44.100 kHz

Graphs were generated by measuring groups of every common measure (four quarter-notes) ten times with Seiko 300-lap stopwatches where ten trials were averaged, coordinated and synthesized. For step by step easy method, click here or just pull from the the dropdown screen to your above left. Speed graphs were created in Microsoft’s Excel for MacIntosh 2004 on an Apple iBook G4.


Add, if you desire, the BPM on your iTunes by hitting CNTRL/I an filling in the blank. Jobs knows the tempos, though, right? Nope. Or, can you say, “save something” – I cannot tell.

Ian Schneider
May 27, 2008

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