Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a song from a movie by the Beatles called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Anyway, as a young instrumentalist of medium talent I always wondered why my rhythm was so good. It turned out: my rhythm was my weakness, only no one had told me. I had groove but no momentum. I had strong harmonies that seemed to drive ahead at times but sit "more like sculpture than music" - a sincere complimemt I once got from a listener, but it was indicative to me that there was something wrong with my playing. Finally, at the age of 25, I broke down after being released from a pop song recording because I could did "not seem to be comfortable playing with the metronome track." I was not comfortable - and it took another drummer, BRUCE BUCKLEY of New Jersey to give me the tough love of saying after a set at a bar where I played all the right notes, yet the set was, well, just flat. He said, "I don't knowo what it is with you piano players and your unwillingness to play on time. I argued back that Keithe Jarrett never used a metronome. "Oh know?," Bruce replied, "put on any part of of the 50 Keith Jarrett albums and you'll hear that he might syncopate, but he always is keeping an underlying tempo to which a metronome will roughly match up. What happens is, and what happened tonight, dude, " (here came the blow) "is that when you piano players get lost in those harmonics under the open wood panel, sure, it sounds great to you down there. But people who are listening - when you go into your private tempos whenever you feel like it, as soon as you do: people literally stop listening." I am open minded and that was the MOST BITTER PILL I ever swallowed, musically, for it meant not simply learning to play on a metronome but I feared my playing would get mechanical.
First, I looked to places where I could get a grip on the metronome - what songs are 63 bpm, anyway? I found no such book, and so I began to list songs on my own that I thought were "vamp or groove" first songs - songs with such catchy introductory rhythms, like Prince's KISS or The Beatles' DAY TRIPPER or Genesis' AFTERGLOW. I saw some strikingly obvious patterns - so obvious in fact that when i looked across new York City's every resource and found nothing on this (1988), I fond nothing internationally done with this, I knew as a law student at the time that I would have dual obligations: to be an officer of the court AND to spread the word that nature was hiding an enormous secret. Of course, no one likes change, and constitutional law and music theory are all about *slow, enduring change*. This article analyzing the speed of this song by the Beatles is one of 10,000 songs that form the basis of the meanspeed® music school and the application of ideas that make your head hurt if you read the Newtonian physics of why it works - but you will be the person with this priceless power over attitude and mind, regardless of whether you are a musician or not, if you read what I'm saying - which, unlike Bruce's TRUE but cruel (mean) delivery, is done in a kind way. By "mean," I describe the average of results taking away outliers whether they be by mistake or are simple intros or outros that have not much to do with a piece. I hope you can use these powers - as the whole music/geek aspect of this research and application makes it :NOT FOR EVERYONE - for controlling your attitude, your perspective, your mood and thereby your behavior to WHEREVER YOU WANT IT TO BE. There is no "one speed fits all" formula, so the Baby Mozart people are charlatans in the extreme not because their music choices are bad - they are charlatans because frankly the only thing they know about music tempo are wha they thinkn are clever verbal ways of explaining why they cannot understand me - and I have been VERY consistently saying the same thing, for about 20 years, and slowly but surely, and praise jesus for the web, I am seeing people starting to "get it" - and I'm 46. Which will seem very young in 30 years. Frankly, when ai received a copyright on the selection, description and provided 10,000 example for my original ©, I just waited for a line of people to come calling me and knocking at the door. Not quite! Did I say people despise change? Well, now that everyone is on a personal or family spending freeze, more or less, and they own everything I am giving. I WILL NOT SELL BECAUSE THE CURE IS SO EXTREME THAT I BELIEVE IT A MEDICAL NECESSITY THAT THIS WORD BE HEARD. My backers do not like that. But come on, if you were paying to read this, would you keep reading? I wouldn't! I describe above what I would do - I'd run from it. So said, once I embraced it and internalized it, it came to apply to all that I do, be that as a lawyer or husband - both of which I am debately in the middle of the Bell Curve on - so said, I'd have never spoke the way I do in public nor metg my wife but for the meanspeed theory of music - so you may want to check it out - it's always here, and I don't take usernames or passwords or registration crap. You are (yeah, even *you* too, XXX) welcome here any time any place - just have a metronome and a sense of adventure. No clothes required -in fact, too many clothes are no good to really FEEL each of these territories. Seats are better than a suit, but you may feel like a person with sweats on when you wear a suit from the added relaxation gained by leaning the contents on this page. /ias/ Continue reading ![]()
