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I've a run tomorrow, and I've found pretty much my perfect rhythm is with "the sharpest lives" by My chemical romance. Now, I have to run for 10k, so I'm trying to get some tunes with a similar BPM to this so it'll keep me going for the whole thing!
Ones I've come up with so far are:
Marion - Fallen through
Cure - Forest
Cure - Boys don't cry
Manics - mausoleum
But I need an hours worth. Is there an easy way to get the BPMs of tunes so I can customise a playlist for the ipod so I can survive it!?
Cheers,
PK
*loads humane killing shotgun*
Its the kindest way.
Don't know of a really easy way, unless you've got access to some DJ mixing software or know someone with a mixer / CDJ (many also play mp3)with beat counters.
ADH; bit messy. I'd go for a captive bolt gun.
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I'd run the music through a bandpass filter to remove as much of the vocal frequencies as possible. Then I would probably take a windowed Fourier transform and convert to a power spectral density representation. Then it's simply a case of peak matching.
-j
plenty of podcasts on itunes with specific bpm that in theory relate to your target 10k time.
I always run to music and anything too sluggish has a real effect on the time so get a good mix sorted. I have a load of mixes for 10k that work for me, there are also some Nike+ mixes on iTunes geared to 10k times as well.
My usual running playlist includes quite a lot of live stuff and I'd suggest you look at for a start:
Daft Punk 2007
Pendulum
Prodigy (latest album is great and the hits work)
Too many DJs and some of the Soulwax remixes are good.
These are not like The Cure but for running you need a sustained tempo across a lot of tracks and the agression of the Prodigy works well imho.
Winamp may well have a pluggin!
There is a free program that takes all your mp3s and adds a tempo tag to the track that you can filter by in your media player /itunes etc. Can't remember what it is called though - you could probably find it on google.
My mp3s are tagged and I have a 140bpm megamix on my phone at the moment - it's amazing how varied a playlist you get.
Joe
generaly similar songs will have similar BPM's, so indie will be 60-70, hip-hop/R'n'B 90, dance 125, etc etc (hence a dance track can easily be made, speed up a good song by 100%, and play back the same song at its normal speed ontop, actualy its not quite that easy, but theres the basics)
If you want an exact BPM either download one of the afformetioned mix-tapes, or get someone with CDJ's to make you one.
so indie will be 60-70, hip-hop/R'n'B 90, dance 125, e
Indie 60 bpm? Dance 125? That's a bit of a generalisation that ignores all the fast indie songs out there, and whilst a whole lot of boring trance music is 120bpm, there are so many genres of dance music done by people imaginative enough to move the tempo slider off the default setting.
Anyway, it sounds like you're looking for something roughly 150-160bpm (or 75-80 bpm if you half the BPM you can just run left foot on the beat).
Although that manics track is roughly 124 bpm unless there's a faster live version or something?
If you're looking for indie music here are a few:
almost all the singles by Art Brut are 150-160bpm.
Pulp - Babies is about right.
Ash - Innocent Smile, Girl from Mars
Joe
Look for podrunner - this has a huge catalogue of 1hr mixes (mostly dance) at set bpms.
Forest by Cure is about 155-160bpm. I ran to it today and it was my standard tempo - I know from using podrunner that 155-160 is my standard.
Try some QoTSA - Songs for the deaf (first few songs)
LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad - Progression sessions (whole album is metronomic)
Ministry - New World Order
These are all about the same
count em!!
thanks folks - all good stuff, and Joe, that's a couple I hadn't thought of too - cheers.
Usual drivel from fred.
On a Mac - [url= http://www.potionfactory.com/tangerine/ ]Tangerine![/url]! Also you can make a playlist with specified bpm limits.
A couple of candidates are Eton Rifles (The Jam) and English Civil War (The Clash) 🙂