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"Always On Your Side" | Sheryl Crow and Sting | Median Expected Tempo=70 beats per minute | Rhythm Entrainment maps and breakdown with video.

Posted by Ian A Schneider on

“Always on Your Side” is a song by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, and is featured on her 2005 album, Wildflower.

Sting_Sheryl_Crow_Always _On _Your_Side - speed_timing

Sting_Sheryl_Crow_Always _On _Your_Side - speed_timing

It was released as the second single from the album (see 2006 in music). While the original album version features only herself on lead vocals, the radio version is a duet with British musician Sting.

The song debuted at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and stayed inside the Billboard Hot 100 for 8 weeks), her third highest debut ever. The single also peaked in the top 20 of the UK airplay chart, while the single debuted and peaked at No. 8. The single also hit at #2 on the Canadian Singles Chart.

Sheryl Crow’s Web site offered a free download of the new single to anyone who had already purchased the Wildflower-album. A subsequent edition of the parent album features the duet version.

The duet received a Grammy Award-nomination in 2007 as Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals.

The song was used as the theme for the 2006 telenovela Desire on the MyTV Network.

Meanspeed-Carlton-Sullivan Speed Summary

song title=Always On Your Side

composer=Sheryl Crow

performer=Sheryl Crow and Sting

mean speed/median expected tempo=70.047 beats per minute

average beat=856.6 milliseconds

frequency=298.67 Hertz

property rights=© 2005 A & M Records

File=Purchased AAC audio file from iTunes® by Apple®

Size=8.4 MB

Bit Rate=256 kbps

Sample Rate=44.100 kHz

Profile=Low Complexity

Channels=Stereo

file extension=.m4a

Ian Andrew Schneider

Sarah Jane Houseman

Annie Sullivan Jackson House/New Jersey Free School

May 31, 2011

BPM_Map - ALWAYS ON YOUR SIDE - Sheryl_Crow - Sting-New Jersey Free School_2

BPM_Map - ALWAYS ON YOUR SIDE - Sheryl_Crow - Sting-New Jersey Free School_2

Always On Your Side | Sing and Sheryl Crow | still tempo map | meanspeeed music

Always On Your Side | Sing and Sheryl Crow | still tempo map | meanspeeed music

The Speed of Easter During a Hot July – "Hail Thee, Festival Day!" Episcopal Easter Hymn by Ralph Vaughn-Williams as played by William Nell | NJ Free School Tempo Breakdown of Easter’s Hymn

Posted by Ian A Schneider on

Music: Salve Festa Dies, Ralph Vaughan Williams, in The Eng­lish Hymn­al (Lon­don: Ox­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty Press, 1906) (MI­DI, score). Originally credited to “Anonymous,” Vaugh­an Will­iams was named as the com­pos­er in Songs of Praise, 1931.

meanspeed music therapy - hail Thee, Festival Day - bpm scan - 102 bpm

meanspeed music therapy - hail Thee, Festival Day - bpm scan - 102 bpm

The com­plex­i­ty of this score makes it a chal­lenge for con­gre­ga­tion­al use (there are three ver­sions for dif­fer­ent oc­ca­sions, which can be sung sep­ar­ate­ly or com­bined).

How­ev­er, it awes and inspires  when sung by a trained and practiced choir. 

EASTER

Refrain

Hail thee, festival day!
Blessed day to be hallowed forever;
Day when our Lord was raised,
Breaking the kingdom of death.

Lo, the fair beauty of the earth,
From the death of the winter arising!
Every good gift of the year
Now with its Master returns.

Refrain

Rise from the grave now, O Lord,
The author of life and creation.
Treading the pathway of death,
New life You give to us all.

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ASCENSION

Refrain

Hail thee, festival day!
Blessed day to be hallowed forever;
Day when our risen Lord
Rose in the heavens to reign.

He who was nailed to the cross
Is Ruler and Lord of all people.
All things created on earth
Sing to the glory of God.

Refrain

Daily the loveliness grows,
Adorned with glory of blossom;
Heaven her gates unbars,
Flinging her increase of light.

Refrain

PENTECOST

Refrain

Hail thee, festival day!
Blessed day to be hallowed forever;
Day when the Holy Ghost
Shone in the world full of grace.

Bright and in the likeness of fire,
On those who await your appearing,
You Whom the Lord had foretold
Suddenly, swiftly descend.

Refrain

Forth from the Father You come
With sevenfold mystical offering,
Pouring on all human souls
Infinite riches of God.

Refrain

ALL OCCASIONS

God the Almighty Lord,
The Ruler of earth and the heavens,
Guard us from harm without;
Cleanse us from evil within.

Jesus the health of the world,
Enlighten our minds, great Redeemer,
Son of the Father supreme,
Only begotten of God.

Spirit of life and of power,
Now flow in us, fount of our being,
Light that enlightens us all,
Life that in all may abide.

Praise to the giver of good!
O lover and author of concord,
Pour out your balm on our days;
Order our ways in your peace.

Meanspeed-Carlton Tempo Breakdown
median expected tempo/arithmetic mean speed=101.8 beats per minute
average beat, quarter note getting the beat in common time song=~589.4 milliseconds
composer=Ralph Vaughn-Williams
data visualization/synthesized tempo graphs=Sophia St. John Neumann
most excellent player in the United States=Mollie H. Nichols, The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street, New York, New York, 10028
ONLY PLAYED=Easter morning.

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Love to all,
Sophia St. John Neumann
Annie Sullivan Jackson House
July 28, 2011
rewritten October 3, 2011

Tempo Diagrams of the Best Version of SWEET BABY JAMES, James Taylor – "one man band" | Median Expected Tempo=120.5 beats per minute

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I looked for the exact tempo for the song Sweet Baby James as recorded at its BEST – by James Taylor on his One Man Band album.  All I found that was close and not a theft from the artist Taylor was my analysis of the song, supra, February, 2011 on this website.  Hence, continuing my self-imposed moral obligation to spread the word that familiarity with song tempo is a gift you already own and can give yourself,

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I calibrated, in a method where all beats are contiguous, consecutive and complete a beats-per-minute scan of the

entire piece with meanspeed® software.

Entered into search: “tempo James Taylor Sweet Baby one man band” I received -

  1. James Taylor “Sweet Baby James” Live – YouTube

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9MncdJ_lOs5 min – Nov 9, 2007 – Uploaded by concordrecords
    Here’s a clip from the DVD portion of the CD/DVD release “One Man Band” by James Taylor. “Sweet Baby James” appears on the Hear …
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  2. James Taylor Tabs : 171 Tabs Total @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com

    http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/james_taylor_tabs.htm – Cached

    James Taylor tabs, chords, guitar, bass, power tabs and guitar pro tabs including Fire And Rain … James Taylor : One Man Band : James Taylor’s “One Man Band,” a new CD/DVD set of live … Sweet Baby James Lyrics · Fire And Rain Lyrics …

  3. James Taylor – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Taylor – Cached

    For other persons with the same name, see James Taylor (disambiguation). ….. Entitled Sweet Baby James, and with the participation of Carole King, …. The success of the album propelled the release of two further singles – the up-tempo …. Taylor’s next album, One Man Band was released on CD and DVD in November …

  4. James Taylor

    http://www.warr.org/taylor.html – Cached

    Sweet Baby James – Mudslide Slim and the Blue Horizon – One Man Dog – Walking Man … James Taylor was one of the most successful of the early 70s … Sessions cut with his first band, not released until after he started hitting it big. …. soothing, over-harmonized mid-tempo rock – “Company Man” is the best try …

  5. February | 2011 | Annie Sullivan Jackson House

    anniesullivanjacksonhouse.com/2011/02/ – Cached

    Feb 10, 2011 – Rockabye, Sweet Baby James – New Jersey Free School Tempo Map: … Sweet Baby James is a song written and recorded by the artist and composer James Taylor. … If you are getting too tired to be exact, I will let you know. … album that says THIS IS FOR EVERYONE may as well say THIS IS FOR NO ONE. …

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  6. James Taylor Online – James Taylor’s Unofficial Home

    www.james-taylor.com/ – Cached

    James Taylor’s unofficial online home since 1994. … The book in part details James’ life in 1970: the recording and release of Sweet Baby James, his touring, the filming of … Troubadour CD/DVD · James Taylor – One Man Band CD/DVD …

  7. infographics | Annie Sullivan Jackson House

    7746.com/tag/infographics/ – Cached

    Rockabye, Sweet Baby James – New Jersey Free School Tempo Map: Contiguous … Sweet Baby James is a song written and recorded by the artist and composer James Taylor. … If you are getting too tired to be exact, I will let you know. … the biggest hypocrite in modern music history, James is a man of integrity. …

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  8. James Taylor | Music , Music Genres, Pop/Rock : JB HI-FI

    Pop/Rock, James Taylor. … Exact shipping charge is shown at checkout. … Although it did not sell in the same volume as some of his later releases, … An early band demo of “Sunny Skies”, a track later to find it way on to his Sweet Baby James album, is followed by the up-tempo “Let Me Ride”, another demo of a …

  9. Sweet Baby James

    wn.com/Sweet_Baby_James – Cached

    “Sweet Baby James” appears on the Hear Music release “One Man Band” in stores everywhere on 11/13/07. Dixie Chicks and James Taylor Sweet Baby James Live Concert …… Sam and Dave song (though Costello increased the tempo considerably). …. Fender Musical Instruments released Elvis Costello Jazzmaster, an exact …

  10. All music guide: the definitive guide to popular music – Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?isbn=0879306270…Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine – 2001 – Antiques & Collectibles – 1491 pages
    Bill Da/il Sweet Baby of Mine (1949-1956) / Apr. 6, … Only Joni Mitchell and James Taylor ranked alongside him in terms of influence, but neither artist …

This tells me nothing about the tempo of the version for which I am seeking the tempo.  Therefore:

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary

song=Sweet Baby James

composer=James Taylor

performer=James Taylor

guitarist=James Taylor

song purchased from=Apple®’s iTunes®

File Kind=AAC purchased audio file

Sweet_Baby_James_-James_Taylor_tempo-speed_diagram_-Annie_Sullivan_Jackson_House_77459

Sweet_Baby_James_-James_Taylor_tempo-speed_diagram_-Annie_Sullivan_Jackson_House_77459

Size=7.6 MB

Bit Rate 256 kbps

Sample Rate=44.100 kHz

File Extension=.m4a

Profile=Low Complexity

Channels=Stereo

median expected tempo/arithmetic mean speed=120.5 beats per minute

average beat=~498 milliseconds

tempo infographics=Annie Sullivan Jackson House

Sweet_Baby_James_-James_Taylor_tempo-speed_diagram_-Annie_Sullivan_Jackson_House_7746

Sweet_Baby_James_-James_Taylor_tempo-speed_diagram_-Annie_Sullivan_Jackson_House_7746

Ian Andrew Schneider

Annie Sullivan Jackson House

Kendall Park New Jersey

August 16, 2011