song/cadence request

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Hell and High Water said:

I've noticed that 'Mull of Kintyre' by Paul McCartney is almost exactly
90 beats per minute.

If I listen (or even think about it) while I'm pedaling, I know I'm at
or above 90 RPM.

Any other songs that you know of that are at 90 or so?

Well, here's some stuff that might come in handy to
pace one's self by:

"Softer Ride" -- Status Quo
"Wolf" -- Nash the Slash
"Bionic Man" -- Fabulous Poodles
"Race the Wind" -- Rory Gallagher
"As the Crow Flies -- "Rory Gallagher
"Dirty Back Road" -- B 52s
"Soul Food" -- Sugarcane Harris
"TB Sheets" -- Van Morrison
A bunch of Johhny Winter stuff
Another bunch of stuff off Alice Cooper's Flush The Fashion
album (Clones, Nuclear Infected, etc)

Quoted message said:

<insert Mull of Kintyre criticism here>

Nuh. I don't feel critical.

cheers,
Tom

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Hell and High Water said:

I've noticed that 'Mull of Kintyre' by Paul McCartney is almost exactly
90 beats per minute.

If I listen (or even think about it) while I'm pedaling, I know I'm at
or above 90 RPM.

Any other songs that you know of that are at 90 or so?

<insert Mull of Kintyre criticism here>

TIA,

-Bob

Weird. my version is almost excrutiatingly slow...I'd say more like
50rpm...is there a fast version?

jj

Hell and High Water said:

I've noticed that 'Mull of Kintyre' by Paul McCartney is almost exactly
90 beats per minute.

If I listen (or even think about it) while I'm pedaling, I know I'm at
or above 90 RPM.

Any other songs that you know of that are at 90 or so?

<insert Mull of Kintyre criticism here>

TIA,

-Bob

http://www.jogtunes.com/JTCtunes.php

You can select them based on beats per minute and download for your MP3
player. I'm sure there are other sites like this one.

Pat from Texas likes "The Theme from the Rush Limbaugh Show" which was
originally an instrumental riff from "My City Was Gone" by The Pretenders.

It's on a bit after the top of the hour at noon, 1 and 2 pm Eastern Time
most weekdays, and lasts about thirty seconds if I recall correctly.

Frequently, intensity, duration. Just the thing for a brisk workout.

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

Quoted message said:

Weird. my version is almost excrutiatingly slow...I'd say more like
50rpm...is there a fast version?

I'm measuring the quarter note, not the dotted half.

Spot on at 90. Almost like he had a metronome set to 90 during the
recording...

-Bob

Hell and High Water said:

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

Quoted message said:

Weird. my version is almost excrutiatingly slow...I'd say more like
50rpm...is there a fast version?

I'm measuring the quarter note, not the dotted half.

Spot on at 90. Almost like he had a metronome set to 90 during the
recording...

-Bob

Well, again, it's not inspiring, though it may give you the right rpm, it
puts me to sleep, lol. But it is a nice easy listening song.

I like 'Suicide Blonde', and stuff like that; INXS, anything 'fast'.
Queen's fast stuff, Trapt "Headstrong" is good. Sometimes it's stupid stuff
I wouldn't normally listen to, like 'Livin' la vida Loca', haha.

jj

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:05:18 -0500, Hell and High Water
<[email hidden]> skrev:

Quoted message said:

I've noticed that 'Mull of Kintyre' by Paul McCartney is almost exactly
90 beats per minute.

If I listen (or even think about it) while I'm pedaling, I know I'm at
or above 90 RPM.

I am so happy to learn that we are a bunch of cycling lunatics, and that
we can communicate openly about our peculiarities.
Here is my confession of the day:
To find my natural cadence, I humm the classic modern jazz tune, Take
Five, by Dave Brubeck Quartet. It is in 5/4 and I accentuate the first and
third stroke thus stressing the two legs equally. Cycling in a 4/4
rythm is not advisable; it will make one leg grow bigger and stronger than
the other, since the accentuated one-stroke will allways hit the same leg.

Ivar

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In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

Quoted message said:

I like 'Suicide Blonde', and stuff like that; INXS, anything 'fast'.
Queen's fast stuff,

EXCELLENT!!

Any Queen songs that are 90-100??

THANKS!

-Bob

In article <opsyf8yhiaxtdc4g@ivarsnotebook>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

I am so happy to learn that we are a bunch of cycling lunatics, and that
we can communicate openly about our peculiarities.

Glad to help out.

Quoted message said:

Here is my confession of the day:
To find my natural cadence, I humm the classic modern jazz tune, Take
Five, by Dave Brubeck Quartet. It is in 5/4 and I accentuate the first and
third stroke thus stressing the two legs equally. Cycling in a 4/4
rythm is not advisable; it will make one leg grow bigger and stronger than
the other, since the accentuated one-stroke will allways hit the same leg.

LOL!

That's an excellent tune, and an excellent suggestion, but I never in a
million years imagined myself spinning to a time-chart.

Maybe Stings 'Hung my head', in 9 (2-2-3-2)

!!

-Bob

Ivar Hesselager said:

third stroke thus stressing the two legs equally. Cycling in a 4/4
rythm is not advisable; it will make one leg grow bigger and stronger than
the other, since the accentuated one-stroke will allways hit the same leg.

Anybody know a good cycling waltz? I thought of Al Stewart's
"Katherine of Oregon," but when I counted the beats it came out at 120.

Bill

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_`\(,_ | Bicycles are the reason it isn't $10.
(_)/ (_) |

jj said:

I like 'Suicide Blonde', and stuff like that; INXS, anything 'fast'.
Queen's fast stuff, Trapt "Headstrong" is good. Sometimes it's stupid stuff
I wouldn't normally listen to, like 'Livin' la vida Loca', haha.

If I'm having trouble getting up The Big Hill ... and ZZ top happens
to come up on my MP3 player (anything from Greatest Hits) ... I
magically rise off the saddle and a couple dozen extra watts--a gift
from long dead ancestors, I'm assuming--come to me.

YMMV.

Hell and High Water said:

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

Quoted message said:

I like 'Suicide Blonde', and stuff like that; INXS, anything 'fast'.
Queen's fast stuff,

EXCELLENT!!

Any Queen songs that are 90-100??

THANKS!

-Bob

Gee, Bob, I don't know...it depends on how you count the beats. As I've
said a few times one of my favorite methods is to sing a fast waltz to
myself. A waltz is 3/4 time and is often full of 'triplets'. The triplets
(123...123...123) I match up with my pedal strokes. If you're 'pretend
conducting' the waltz, the triplet is done on a single downbeat, so it's
naturally 'fast'. So for each 'One', I'm making one and a half revolutions
(or R-L-R). Make sense? ;-)

One of my favorite 'waltzes' is the Blue Danube and I sing it to myself at
about 25% speeded up rate and that easily gets me up to 90 to 95.

Another thing that's kind of neat is to record a cycling event and then get
on the trainer or the stationary bike and try to pedal as fast as the
riders on the TV.

Though when you're just watching the event sitting at your desk, or easy
chair, they seem to be pedalling smoothly but it doesn't look that quick.

When you try to actually match them, it's quite brisk - usually around
95-100. Triathletes seem to have an over-all faster, but steady high
cadence. The Pro cyclists are fast, but vary....uh, IOW, the Triathletes
don't seem to coast much, especially the sprint type where you can draft if
you want to, I think. So for my purposes I often prefer to ride to a
recorded Triathlon.

jj

jj said:

One of my favorite 'waltzes' is the Blue Danube and I sing it to myself at
about 25% speeded up rate and that easily gets me up to 90 to 95.

I never knew Strauss was a lyricist.

Regards,
Bob Hunt

Bob said:

jj said:

One of my favorite 'waltzes' is the Blue Danube and I sing it to myself at
about 25% speeded up rate and that easily gets me up to 90 to 95.

I never knew Strauss was a lyricist.

Regards,
Bob Hunt

La-dah-dee-dah-dah, Bob. ;-D

jj

Neil Brooks said:

jj said:

I like 'Suicide Blonde', and stuff like that; INXS, anything 'fast'.
Queen's fast stuff, Trapt "Headstrong" is good. Sometimes it's stupid stuff
I wouldn't normally listen to, like 'Livin' la vida Loca', haha.

If I'm having trouble getting up The Big Hill ... and ZZ top happens
to come up on my MP3 player (anything from Greatest Hits) ... I
magically rise off the saddle and a couple dozen extra watts--a gift
from long dead ancestors, I'm assuming--come to me.

YMMV.

Too cool. It's pretty neat the way loud music can do that. I sometimes even
get chills.

Though I don't use tunes on-board anymore, I have done so in the past
particularly when riding the bike trail at low-traffic times.

I think when the price comes down on those new MP3 player sunglasses I may
take another look at cycling with tunes.

The reason is I don't use tunes now is I don't want to wear headphones and
get all wired up and have music playing all the time on every ride. But I
would like the option of quickly and cleanly being able to access some
music at certain times, like the last couple intervals or on a favorite
tough hill.

jj

"Hell and High Water" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Any other songs that you know of that are at 90 or so?

Rabbi David Zeller's "I am Alive" always kicks up the cadence for me. You
can hear it here as "A Niggun": http://davidzeller.org/music/ He added words
to it, later:

ai lai lai lai lai lai lai
I am Alive
ai lai lai lai lai lai lai
I am Alive
ai lai lai lai lai lai lai
I am Alive
I'm a Alive
And who
Is this Aliveness I am?
And who
Is this Aliveness I am?
And who
Is this Aliveness I am?
Is it not
The Holy Blessed One?

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

One of my favorite 'waltzes' is the Blue Danube and I sing it to myself

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Quoted message said:

about 25% speeded up rate and that easily gets me up to 90 to 95.

I never knew Strauss was a lyricist.

You're right. He wrote the words, and let someone else write the lyrics.

S A TUR DAY

NIGHT!!!

Guns & Roses: Night train, Mr. Brownstone.

Welcome to the Jungle is particularly good on offroad bush trails.

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So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said a little better than before' -g&r