  From a uniform analysis of a large (8.5 Ms) Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data
set of Low Mass X-ray Binaries, we present a complete identification of all the
variability components in the power spectra of black holes in their canonical
states. It is based on gradual frequency shifts of the components observed
between states, and uses a previous identification in the black hole low hard
state as a starting point. It is supported by correlations between the
frequencies in agreement with those previously found to hold for black hole and
neutron stars. Similar variability components are observed in neutron stars and
black holes (only the component observed at the highest frequencies is
different) which therefore cannot depend on source-specific characteristics
such as the magnetic field or surface of the neutron star or spin of the black
hole. As the same variability components are also observed across the jet-line
the X-ray variability cannot originate from the outer-jet but is most likely
produced in either the disk or the corona. We use the identification to
directly compare the difference in strength of the black hole and neutron star
variability and find these can be attributed to differences in frequency and
strength of high frequency features, and do not require the absence of any
components. Black holes attain their highest frequencies (in the
hard-intermediate and very-high states) at a level a factor ~6 below the
highest frequencies attained by the corresponding neutron star components,
which can be related to the mass difference between the compact objects in
these systems.

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