Breathe (2 AM) – Verse
Breathe (2 AM) – Pre-Chorus
Breathe (2 AM) – Chorus
Related Music Concepts
Basic Chords
Chords naturally found in the key
Non-Standard Mode
New scales and home base chords for a different mood
Suspended Chords
A chord with built in tension and release
Add Chords
A chord with an added tone that enriches its sound
Song Stats
●
Key
A Mixolydian
Tempo
57 BPM
Meter
6/4
Genre
Rock, Pop, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
Melody Range
A3 – E4
Mood
Simple, Classic, Mellow
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
10
Chord Complexity: Tracks when a song goes beyond simple three-note chords—either by adding extra tones (like 7ths or add9s) or by borrowing notes from outside the key—creating richer, more sophisticated harmonies.
Melodic Complexity
9
Melodic Complexity: Reflects two factors: the use of notes outside the key and rhythmic syncopation, together capturing how intricate or surprising a melody feels.
Chord-Melody Tension
44
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
6
Chord Prog. Novelty: Measures how uncommon a song's chord changes are compared to others in the Hooktheory database, highlighting progressions that deviate from typical patterns.
Concepts
Song Stats
●
Key
A Major
Tempo
57 BPM
Meter
6/4
Genre
Rock, Pop, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
Melody Range
F#3 – C#4
Mood
Tense, Simple, Mellow, Bright
Most Used Chord
V
Chord Complexity
21
Chord Complexity: Tracks when a song goes beyond simple three-note chords—either by adding extra tones (like 7ths or add9s) or by borrowing notes from outside the key—creating richer, more sophisticated harmonies.
Melodic Complexity
9
Melodic Complexity: Reflects two factors: the use of notes outside the key and rhythmic syncopation, together capturing how intricate or surprising a melody feels.
Chord-Melody Tension
77
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
31
Chord Prog. Novelty: Measures how uncommon a song's chord changes are compared to others in the Hooktheory database, highlighting progressions that deviate from typical patterns.
Concepts
Song Stats
●
Key
A Mixolydian
Tempo
57 BPM
Meter
6/4
Genre
Rock, Pop, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
Melody Range
C#4 – A4
Mood
Smooth, Mellow
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
37
Chord Complexity: Tracks when a song goes beyond simple three-note chords—either by adding extra tones (like 7ths or add9s) or by borrowing notes from outside the key—creating richer, more sophisticated harmonies.
Melodic Complexity
6
Melodic Complexity: Reflects two factors: the use of notes outside the key and rhythmic syncopation, together capturing how intricate or surprising a melody feels.
Chord-Melody Tension
12
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
41
Chord Prog. Novelty: Measures how uncommon a song's chord changes are compared to others in the Hooktheory database, highlighting progressions that deviate from typical patterns.
Concepts
Song Stats
●
Keys
A Mixolydian, A Major
Tempo
57 BPM
Meter
6/4
Genre
Rock, Pop, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
Melody Range
F#3 – A4
Mood
Simple, Mellow
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
22
Chord Complexity: Tracks when a song goes beyond simple three-note chords—either by adding extra tones (like 7ths or add9s) or by borrowing notes from outside the key—creating richer, more sophisticated harmonies.
Melodic Complexity
7
Melodic Complexity: Reflects two factors: the use of notes outside the key and rhythmic syncopation, together capturing how intricate or surprising a melody feels.
Chord-Melody Tension
40
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
26
Chord Prog. Novelty: Measures how uncommon a song's chord changes are compared to others in the Hooktheory database, highlighting progressions that deviate from typical patterns.
About Breathe (2 AM)
About the Key
A Mixolydian
It is the most popular key among Mixolydian keys and the 25th most popular among all keys. The A Mixolydian scale is similar to the A Major scale except that its 7th note (G) is a half step lower.
I IV VII
Most Important Chords
Mixolydian chord progressions are heavily featured in many genres of music like classic rock, which relies on the major chord built on the 7th scale degree.
A Mixolydian Cheat Sheet
Popular chords, progressions, downloadable MIDI files and more
About the Chord Progressions
| Section | Progression | Songs with this progression |
|---|---|---|
| Verse |
I
VII
IV
|
|
| Pre-Chorus |
ii
IV
I
V
|
|
| Chorus |
VIIadd9
IV
I
|
|
About the Melody
Melody data is compiled from all analyzed melody sections, so depending on how a user analyzed a song, "melody" might include instrumental notes.
F#3 – A4
Melody range across 15 semitones
1.55 beats/note
Across 198.0 beats of melody
Stepwise Motion
Jumpiness
Repeaty
100%
Diatonic
Percentage of notes within the song's key.
66%
Chord Tones
Percentage of notes that fall on a chord tone of the underlying harmony.
Mixed
Consonance
How smoothly the melody blends with the harmony (0 = dissonant, 1 = consonant).
Loose
Syncopation
How often the melody emphasizes off-beats. Higher = more syncopated.
About the Metrics
Chord Complexity
Chord Complexity tracks when a song goes beyond simple three-note chords—either by adding extra tones (like 7ths or add9s) or by borrowing notes from outside the key—creating richer, more sophisticated harmonies.
Melodic Complexity
Melodic Complexity reflects two factors: the use of notes outside the key and rhythmic syncopation, together capturing how intricate or surprising a melody feels.
Chord-Melody Tension
Chord-Melody Tension quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Progression Novelty
Chord Progression Novelty measures how uncommon a song's chord changes are compared to others in the Hooktheory database, highlighting progressions that deviate from typical patterns.
Chord-Bass Melody
Chord–Bass Melody evaluates how smoothly the bass moves between chords, scoring higher when it travels step-wise, ascending or descending, instead of jumping directly between root position chords.
Hooktheory's metrics are calculated against the entire database of analyzed songs, where 50 is the "average song." Learn more about each of these metrics here.
Chord Complexity
22
Measures how diverse and sophisticated the chord vocabulary is in this song.
Percentile: 22/100 — below average
Melodic Complexity
7
Measures the range, intervallic variety, and rhythmic complexity of the melody.
Percentile: 7/100 — below average
Chord-Melody Tension
40
Measures how much the melody notes clash or harmonize with the underlying chords.
Percentile: 40/100 — below average
Chord Prog. Novelty
26
Measures how unusual or unexpected the chord progressions are compared to common patterns.
Percentile: 26/100 — below average
Chord-Bass Melody
15
Measures the melodic movement of the bass notes across chord changes.
Percentile: 15/100 — below average
Song Data
Metrics Radar Chart
Breathe (2 AM)Average Song
BPM Comparison
Melody Distribution
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Melodic Intervals
Distribution of note-to-note jumps in semitones (negative = downward, positive = upward)
Note Durations
How long each note is held (in beats)
Syncopation
How many notes fall on each level of metric strength (0 = on-beat, higher = increasingly off-beat)
Level 0
Notes that fall on the downbeat — the strongest metric position in the measure.
Level 1
Notes on a secondary strong beat (e.g. beat 3 in 4/4) — still firmly on the grid.
Level 2
Notes on the remaining primary beats (2 and 4 in 4/4) — moderate metric weight.
Level 3
Notes on eighth-note offbeats — between the primary beats. Audibly syncopated.
