Long Live the Beat 2: Encore · audio sketch
118 years of life expectancy, played by the band
Each year of CDC NCHS data is one bar of a 12-bar blues in C. Life expectancy picks the melody note, snapped to the chord so it never plays a wrong note. The death rate sets the tempo and how hard the drums work. The instruments change with each era's zone, and 1918 drops to a solo piano.
The x-axis is song time, not calendar time: slower bars take more room and the 1918 breakdown plays at half tempo. Gold dots are launch runs (life expectancy up 3+ years); ringed dots are stop-time bars (down 2+ years). Click anywhere to jump there. Song length 4:14.
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1900
Upright Parlor
- Tempo
- 137.6 BPM
- Chord
- C7
- Life expectancy
- 47.3 yrs
- Death rate / 100k
- 2,518
- Duet gap · harmony
- 14.6 yrs · octave
- Data event
- –
- The band
- lead: honkytonk piano
Space to stomp
Hit on the beat or the off-beat eighth.
Perfect ±45 ms · Great ±90 ms · Early/Late ±150 ms