The Speed of Bob Dylan: #59 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time, The Times They Are A Changin'-speeds, graphs, digital music screens

The Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time ranks a third Bob Dylan written and performed song, #59--"The Time They Are A Changin'," a waltz.

radar graph based on 8 trials of measurement in contiguous groups of 15 beats © 2007, James T.S. Manning


James T.S. Manning, Meanspeed Music's Calibrator-in-Chief, measured this summary of speeds--
beats measured=540
mean time=3 minutes, 8.14 seconds
rhythm=waltz
meanspeed=172.2 beats per minute
meanspace=348 milliseconds per beat.

linear chart with a 2d degree polynomial trend line based on 8 trials of measurement in contiguous groups of 15 beats © 2007 James T.S. Manning

8 trials of measurement in contiguous groups of 15 beats accounting for 540 beats over 3 minutes, 8 seconds, © 2007 James T.S. Manning


Rolling Stone's Top 59 of 500 by rank


Rolling Stone's Top 59 of 500 in order of descending speed.







Ian Schneider
meanspeed music
June 28, 2007