Audio Example 10.1:

"Hard Rain," verse 1 (album version)

Listen to verse 1 while following figure 10.2 on p. 257. While doing so, you can count along with the numbers atop the figure (aloud or silently) to better feel the uneven three-plus-four sway of the questions and answers. This straightens out into four-plus-four in the refrain, as momentum gathers, setting up for the climactic title line.