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All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan and All Along the Watchtower by The Jimi Hendrix Experience: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 6%, unrelated.

6%Unrelated
Harmony42%
Melody19%
Sound32%
Rhythm53%

These tracks have no more in common than unrelated songs usually do.

All Along the WatchtowerAll Along the Watchtower
ArtistBob DylanThe Jimi Hendrix Experience
KeyC# MinorC Minor
Tempo129 BPM115 BPM
Most alike passage1:58–2:190:34–0:57

Track B moved up 1 semitones (C Minor to C# Minor)

On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is close: as alike as other versions, or as songs very much in the same style (distance 0.96; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).

Why this pair

This is a cover version. Public background: sparse folk to psychedelic rock; cover. Sonalize's scores are measurements, not a view on any dispute.

How this was measured

Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.

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