Breaking Down The Tempo of "Old Man" by Neil Young
Put this in the "Interesting Analysis" department.
From Breaking Down The Tempo of The Beautiful "Old Man" by Neil Young:
"Old Man" is a song Neil Young wrote and performed for his 1970s album‘After The Gold Rush.’[ed; correction: "Harvest"]
I looked the song up on-line, and as for “metrology” (the science of measurement), I saw no good timeline. So I did the measurements and chart.
- mean speed=70.5 beats per minute
- average beat=851 milliseconds
- low frequency=1.175 Hz
- tone in just intonation=300.8 Hz
- song in 1% range of the mean speed 70.5 BPM
[declassified and republished by silverman matherton on August 21, 2016]
Neil Young Old Man (Live at Massey Hall) Live At Massey Hall 1971
Also, see Neil Young – SUGAR MOUNTAIN -The Speed of the Solitude of Childhood Memory & Pink Beauty in Recall. Video, bpm graphs, spreadsheets, measurements expose shocking biological pattern: the tempo exposes the temperament of the player.
Also, more Neil Young Song Amalysis and the book "Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy" by William Echard..
Labels: analysis, neil young, song
3 Comments:
'AFTER THE GOLD RUSH"????
Thanks Rick!
Corrected above. We guess that while the original author may be a "tempo expert", but necessarily a Neil expert?! :)
The outlinks come up as private and basically inaccesable for me - it's really a magnificent piece of music and I'd live to see the score - had a songbook with it, long since evaporated ☺
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