A two-person song, with a two-person perspective for today with some meaningful lyrics to boot! This 65 rpm climb has beautiful instrumentals and harmonies that build, with call outs at 1:38 and 3:00. These two cue spots are a perfect time to have your class add load, but hold cadence at 65 rpms. Now that we FINALLY have power at our club, my class can see whether or not they really do hold cadence steady after adding more load.
Woulter “Wally” De Backer, professionally known as Gotye, wrote this gorgeous song, “Somebody That I Used To Know”, featuring Kimbra. It is from his Making Mirrors album and has had over 57 million You Tube views, so a few others like it as well. Enjoy!
This fabulous artist can not only sing, play guitar and drums, but she is also quite a little athlete. She runs 6 miles a day and is a marathoner. Today’s 4:17, 86 bpm flat road has an ethereal 15 seconds before a hard beat kicks in. There are great nuances to work with throughout the song. It would be ideal to use for the first “road” out, but it’s too good to waste, so you might want to use it later in your ride when everyone is very focused and can enjoy it. Although Britain’s Ellie Goulding is best known for “Lights” (and that is a GREAT tune, 3:32, 61 bpm), featured today is “Salt Skin” from her Lights CD. You may want to check out the entire CD. It’s really good.
Happy weekend everyone. I am so excited to teach on our new FreeMotion bikes Saturday morning! Salt Skin in Spotify
John is it possible to add the BPM to all the songs in my iTunes library? The short answer for most of us is yes, with the exception of any tracks you purchased directly from iTunes back when much of their music carried DRM – Digital Rights Management. What follows is a complete video tutorial for adding the BPM to unprotected tracks in your iTunes music library.
While not being a huge fan of Auto BPM counters,* I do agree that having a number of methods of sorting your music in iTunes can be helpful and will help you become more efficient at creating cadence based playlists.
*I encourage Instructors to actually sample tracks using a Tap to the Beat counter, rather than depending on a software program to show the BPM of a track. Just because a song is listed at 150 BPM doesn't mean it will communicate a tempo that you can use to set your cadence at 75 RPM. Info about the Tap to the Beat counter can be found here.
MixMeister offers a simple and easy to use BPM Analyzer you can download for free here for both PC and Macs. Download and install it now. What's typical missing form any MixMeister product is a full explanation of how to use their software… and that's where I can help 🙂
Next watch this short video to learn how to add BPM to your iTunes library.
This Friday brings you a 91 bpm flat that John “would never listen to”. However, it grabbed me, and my class liked it a lot last night as we worked sprints. It has some Michael Jackson flashback sounds (RIP Michael) and we held our working leg speed and high endurance heart rate for a 4:08 steady state break from sprinting. Chris Brown does a nice job on “She Ain’t You” from his F.A.M.E. CD. (By the way, John will end up listening to this when he takes my class on a Saturday morning!)
No, I don't do the whole “Friday the 13th” bit.
But today's Free Music Friday is a bit unconventional in that it's a number of very long songs that you could incorporate into one of your endurance classes.
I'm really getting into the whole “Zen” thing and Trance music at the right BPM is really working and my class seems to enjoy it 🙂
These tracks aren't on Spotify – but you can download it for free.
What's cool about Magic Show (15 mins @ 100 BPM) is there is a fade to 3 minutes of quiet at the end. Not normally what you want, but I suggest giving it a try. My experience is that everyone will stay quite and use the quiet as a time to recover – maybe get a drink – all without me needing to say anything. Magic Show by David Steinlage
