I'll go a little old school with this one. "Funk #49" by The James Gang, lead by Joe Walsh of the Eagles fame. Probably one of the most well known introductions of any song discussed so far.
Duration: 234 seconds
Climax: 142 seconds when the bass kicks in after that famous guitar riff starts up again.
234 by 142 gives a 1.6479 or another song that has a golden section as per the rules we've come up with. Although one could argue that the climax occurs at the very beginning with the distinctive guitar riff.
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It is said that when a piece of music conforms to Fibonacci numbers and/or the golden section, human beings are more inclined to like that song than one that does not. Our goal is to take that statement and see if there is any validity to it by running tests on the most popular songs from different years. We want to see if we can find any relationships between past "hits" and Fibonacci numbers, and eventually want to see if we can determine chart toppers by whether or not they subscribe to Fibonacci. Here is how to help us out...
The main Fibonacci numbers are:
1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610,987. When a piece of music has a duration of one of these numbers and a dramatic instrumental element at another, it is said to be a Fibonacci song. For example, if "Born in the USA" by Springsteen is 377 seconds long and the instrumental climax appears at 144 seconds into the song, it is considered to be a Fibonacci piece of music.
Calculating the golden section is a little bit different. First, pick a song and find the duration of that song in seconds. Next, find the instrumental climax of the song and divide the duration by the dramatic element. If the ratio is 1.619 or something very close to that, it is said to be a golden section song. For example, if "One Way Out" by the Allman Brothers is 420 seconds long and the dramatic element appears at 260 seconds into it, you would get: 420/260 = 1.615 making it close enough to be a golden section song!
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2 comments:
That's interesting that you said the climax is at the beginning. What if you turned it around and did the ratio in reverse? So that you divided the entire duration by the time left after the initial solo?
At the beginning meaning, as soon as the song starts, you'd get a ratio very close to 1.
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