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STAYIN’ ALINE and speed — Whether You’re A Brother or John Travolta’s Mother, You’re Staying Alive! – The ‘New York Times Effect On Man’ – The Bee Gees Unintended “Life-Saver” Song is 13-15% slower than you’ve been told. Real speed, links, and tempo graphs.

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Stayin' Alive

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Stayin' Alive

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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation has become associated with the speed of the song STAYIN’ ALIVE by the Bee Gees, many of whom are now dead.

From the precision measurements made by Matherton of Meanspeed® Music, it seems that the 110-120 beats per minute called for by the various Heart Foundations is a speed called for in the abstract, while the reality of the song is in fact:

mean arithmetic speed=103.6 beats per minute

average beat=0.5915 seconds.

Staying Alive The Bee Gees speed graph - brenda silverman shore school_30_390

Staying Alive The Bee Gees speed graph – brenda silverman shore school_30_390

Staying Alive The Bee Gees speed graph - brenda silverman shore school_54-126

Staying Alive The Bee Gees speed graph – brenda silverman shore school_54-126

Staying Alive The Bee Gees speed graph - brenda silverman shore school_60_120

Staying Alive The Bee Gees speed graph – brenda silverman shore school_60_120

Staying Alive The Bee Gees speed graph - brenda silverman shore school_102_105_7746

Staying Alive The Bee Gees speed graph – brenda silverman shore school_102_105_7746

These charts show from the longest view, that being the view with the most elongated y-axis, 30-390, to a medium range via, 60-120 bpm on the y-axis and the close up of 103-106 bpm that the song slower than the one given speed that everyone copied but no one bothered to measure.

The difference in the speeds in is the same as the difference between Sting’s Field Of Gold (104 bpm) and Metallica’s Enter Sandman (121 bpm).  I do not know if this 13% difference in what is represented by the main “Just Let Me Copy Your Paper I’m Too Lazy To Check The Math” stream press will make a difference in a person’s living or dying.  I do know that if you are running a family company business, you’ll want to have every employee knowing how to perform CPR.  Using a song is fine, but the wrong speed may kill someone.

For songs between 110-120, comb the web and there are plenty of songs – or you can use this one, but be aware to keep up the pace and not go “Bee Gees mellow” on your pacing.

Keep hearts alive, keep business alive.

And nope, this is not an April Fool’s joke.  Those jokes are found in over half the sponsored and innocently or lazily wrong articles below.

Ian A Schneider

J Winters Matherton

Family | Company | Business

April 1, 2013

Is this man using a watch?  Does it matter?

known information on CPR and pump speed of the arms as of 04/01/13

THE Bee Gees hit Stayin’ Alive is at the heart of a new campaign launched today — to save the lives of cardiac arrest victims.

The British Heart Foundation wants people to use chest compressions on heart attack cases instead of trying to give the kiss-of-life.

It says that pumping the chest at between 110 and 120 beats per minute — the same rate as the 1978 hit — is more effective than a poor breath resuscitation attempt.

The charity is launching the TV campaign, backed by the UK Resuscitation Council, aiming to give people confidence to use the CPR technique.

HARDMAN footballer-turned-actor demonstrates CPR in ‘Stayin’ Alive’ ad

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/4037595/Bee-Gees-hit-Stayin-Alive-used-for-new-cardiac-arrest-victims-campaign.html#ixzz2PDc5Xcfm

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“Dreaming While You Sleep” | a tempo breakdown | Genesis’ warning about being careless behind the wheel

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Las Vegas police officers stand Thursday near a wrecked car near the intersection of Decatur Boulevard and Spring Mountain Road. Four people were killed and eight were hurt after the car hit an RTC bus stop. The driver, Gary Lee Hosey Jr., 24, was among the injured and is suspected of being drunk, police Sgt. Richard Strader said. Roads were closed in the area as emergency responders attended to the victims and police continued their investigation of the accident.

meanspeed®-carlton summary

song=”Dreaming While You Sleep”

composers, performers=Genesis/Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks

mean speed/median expected tempo=102 beats per minute

average beat=0.5882 seconds

“NEVER DRIVE TIRED, DRUNK or IN ANY WAY ILLEGALLY.”  -  Mike Rutherford, Genesis

Ian Andrew Schneider

Family Company Business

November 16, 2012

 

“AIN’T NO SUNSHINE” Bill Withers | New Jersey Free School/meanspeed music tempo breakdown | Bring back the Obama women! | Legal, free tempo maps, video link, Presidential photographs

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Bill Withers is a song that reminds me of the foolish choice we as nation would make if we elected Mitt Romney.  Mrs Michelle Robinson Obama, Esq., her mom and two beautiful daughters give our president a cool poised balance that has helped get the nation back on its feet since President Barack Obama has taken office.

Bill Withers’ classic “Ain’t No Sunshine” would be the theme of despair with a Mitt “I tied my sick dog to my car” Romney.  We look at Mitt, want to like him, then he tells us “[47% of us are human parasites.]“  Not the man of sunshine you want?  Then you might do what we are doing as we see the family and business dynamic in the White House and the priorities thereof: VOTE TO RE-ELECT THE PRESIDENT!

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Ain’t NO SUNSHINE – bill withers – Obama and women – tempo chart by new jersey free school-meanspeed music

menaspeed-carlton speed summary

song title=Ain’t No Sunshine

performer, composer=Bill Withers

producer=Otis Redding and Stax Records

mean speed/median expected tempo=784. beates per minute

average beat as quarter note=0.765786 seconds

corresponding frequency as emotion=bittersweet

corresponding frequency as vibration=334.29 Hertz, as situated between the notes 24 % higher than E natural, 329.628 Hertz,  76 % lower than F natural, 349.228 Hertz

Thank you Mr. Chris Voss for the idea of analyzing the speed of this classic tonight:

CHRIS VOSS (@CHRISVOSS)

10/27/12, 12:11 AM

“Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone; ain’t no home when she’s away; and she’s always gone too long…”  (courtesy Twitter.com)

Ian Andrew Schneider

Family, Company, Business

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