"She will never learn the most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time, because from childhood she has designedly cultivated the habit of ignoring the beat." Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 October 1777)
The song Grey Street was performed by the Dave Matthews Band in Central Park New York City only ONE time.
The diagram as a median tempo guide is pretty accurate, but you have to listen to the rhythm section groove to “get” the rhythm as a whole.
Eleven years plus since LeRoi died and this song makes me appreciate hime almost more than any other.
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Matherton Diagram of Steve Miller’s FLY LIKE AN EAGLE measured by me.
The average speed is 100 BPM, but the band gets a wide range, around 92-103 beats per minute.
“The Steve Miller Band passed me by, but I heard great things about those guys,” noted the Rock
Matherton Diagram of Steve Miller’s FLY LIKE AN EAGLE measured by me.
The average speed is 100 BPM, but the band gets a wide range, around 92-103 beats per minute.
“The Steve Miller Band passed me by, but I heard great things about those guys,” noted the Rock, Dwayne Johnson.
Adele once noted, “No, they’ll never influenced me *musically* – but I studied Steve’s boldness, his determination to do his thing – and I take inspiration from such great people. You can see, too, Steve was dressing his way, ahead of his time – and it was not what everyone wanted to see him wear. I get that a lot! Honestly, it used to bother me, now I rather revel in the idea of it.”
/matherton horowitz/
Say and Stop This Train are songs written performed by John Mayer.
These tempo images represent the probable speed of the harmonic rhythm in both songs, SAY and Stop This Train.
Say and Stop This Train are songs written performed by John Mayer.
These tempo images represent the probable speed of the harmonic rhythm in both songs, SAY and Stop This Train.
Anticipation was written by Carly Simon for Cat Stevens before her first date with him.
Anticipation was written by Carly Simon for Cat Stevens before her first date with him.
The speed of the song is recorded live.
median expected speed99.5 beats per minute
median expected beat=603 milliseconds
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The scene was filmed on the the California beaches, somewhere between Catalina and Venice Beach. As you can tell I’m from the East Coast!
This is a tempo chart I made inspired by a scene from the Bold and The Beautiful that featured Susan Flannery as Stephanie Douglas Forrester ushering with utter gentlest her other, played by Betty White. The scene was filmed on the the California beaches, somewhere between Catalina and Venice Beach. As you can tell I’m from the East Coast!
matherton + spiron
november 26, 2017
IN the late 20th century the band called the Indigo Girls wrote a brilliantly fun song about the most horribly brutal situation: Galileo, who’s “head was on the block/His crime?/Was giving up the truth.”
IN the late 20th century the band called the Indigo Girls wrote a brilliantly fun song about the most horribly brutal situation: Galileo, who’s “head was on the block/His crime?/Was giving up the truth.”
Matherton and me are listening to this as I type. I’m thinking : 25 year old song, better than ever. Jackie is pushing for a comparison to a live version, both to compare speed and because it’s such a darned good piece of music!
Spiron w J Matherton
11/20/17
©Newman Tempo Scale By Me, July 1988, copyright Nov 16, 1992. I think it holds up as well now as when I saw it 30 years ago. I did not INVENT it – there is nothing *to be* invented! Below is a pattern of nature I saw while living as as first year law student. As I’ve written, I was trying to get gigs playing at piano bars during my time in Manhattan and despite on one night playing without mistakes by notes, on some difficult pieces, the feel in the room was unenergized and I did not know why. One night at after a 3rd ave gig, Bruce B, a drummer from the east coast said to me, “not bad dude. you almost were good with Farmer’s Trust at the end, but I think that’s because it’s a waltz and it didn’t give you time to go into your your own head making up your you own speed. I don’t know what it is with you piano players you think you can play any speed. From a drummer’s perspective, I listen to your playing. You seem like other piano players to get off on all the harmonics underneath the piano, this *huge slab of wood*, blurring the harmonics as there are three strings for every note. That makes anything you play sound interesting harmonically with all the notes playing off each other each other. YOU, dude! That is not what the audience are hearing though, man. In fact, the *first time* you miss a beat as in instead playing in time, you go into your own and rubato which nobody’s going to follow.” This is getting along the this will be part 1 of genesis of the Newman Tempo Universal Proposed Scale. I’d like to end this part of the the by saying how much I try to convince myself that Bruce was wrong and in and I went into a 6moth-8 month period complete denial about what quite simply came playing for twenty two-year that I could be on time without out a metronome to practice with.
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