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..
'AFTER THE GOLD RUSH"????
ReplyDeleteThanks Rick!
ReplyDeleteCorrected 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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