"Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans!" - Chuck Berry, "Johnny B. Good" and the meanspeed conjecture: Meanspeed-Carlton Analysis

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Top 9 greatest of all time, listed in order of descending speed


Top 9 greatest of all time, listed in order of descending speed


Top 9 greatest of all time, listed in order of choice of greatness by the Rolling Stone Magazine

The #7 song of all-time on Rolling Stones list called The 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time is called Johnny B. Goode by the artists Chuck Berry.

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
calibration trials=10
beats per trial=420
mean time per trial=2 minutes 30.16 seconds
mean speed/objective tempo=167.8 beats per minute
average beat=358 milliseconds per beat.

There is an article written by the Rolling Stone about the song and its appearance at #7 on the list, found at http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595852/johnny_b_goode.


Ian Schneider
meanspeed.com
July 31, 2008