Hooktheory
Create Amazing Music
Pricing Log in
Trends Popular Progressions
TheoryTab
About Popular Tabs Recently Added Recently Edited Advanced Search Collections Popular Progressions Contributor Guide Contribute a Tab
Explore
Trends Key Cheat Sheets Popular Keys Infographics Music Theory Fundamentals
TheoryTab / Dire Straits / Your Latest Trick
Your Latest Trick
Song Analysis

Your Latest Trick Chords and Melody

Your Latest Trick
Your Latest Trick – Intro
Your Latest Trick – Verse
Your Latest Trick – Chorus
Your Latest Trick – Solo 1
Your Latest Trick – Solo 2
Your Latest Trick – Instrumental

Related Music Concepts

Inverted Chords
Using a different bass note to change a chord's sound
Diminished Chords
A chord built from stacked minor thirds — dark and unstable
Seventh Chords
Adding one more note to the basic chords
Secondary Chords
Chords that temporarily shift the harmonic center
Add Chords
A chord with an added tone that enriches its sound
Non-Standard Mode
New scales and home base chords for a different mood
Borrowed Chords
Using chords from parallel modes for contrast and emotion
Extended Chords
Stacking thirds beyond the 7th to create more complex sounds
Suspended Chords
A chord with built in tension and release
Song Stats ● Intro
Tempo 71 BPM
Meter 2/4
Genre Pop, Rock
Melody Range F#3 – E5
Mood Complex, Unexpected, Mellow
Most Used Chord i
Chord Complexity 79
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 85
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 45
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 81
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.
Song Stats ● Verse
Tempo 123 BPM
Meter 4/4
Genre Pop, Rock
Melody Range B3 – A4
Mood Tense, Complex, Unexpected, Moody
Most Used Chord iv
Chord Complexity 71
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 43
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 62
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 87
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.
Song Stats ● Chorus
Tempo 123 BPM
Meter 4/4
Genre Pop, Rock
Melody Range A3 – B4
Mood Smooth, Unexpected, Moody
Most Used Chord III
Chord Complexity 57
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 42
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 23
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 76
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.
Song Stats ● Solo 1
Tempo 123 BPM
Meter 4/4
Genre Pop, Rock
Melody Range G#3 – B4
Mood Complex, Unexpected, Moody
Most Used Chord V
Chord Complexity 86
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 28
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 75
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.
Song Stats ● Solo 2
Tempo 123 BPM
Meter 4/4
Genre Pop, Rock
Melody Range C#4 – C#5
Mood Complex, Unexpected, Moody
Most Used Chord V
Chord Complexity 86
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 30
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 51
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 75
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.
Song Stats ● Instrumental
Tempo 123 BPM
Meter 6/4
Genre Pop, Rock
Melody Range G#3 – A4
Mood Smooth, Complex, Unexpected, Moody
Most Used Chord V
Chord Complexity 86
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 68
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 19
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 75
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.
Song Stats ● All Sections
Tempo 71 BPM
Meter 2/4
Genre Pop, Rock
Melody Range F#3 – E5
Mood Complex, Unexpected, Mellow
Most Used Chord V
Chord Complexity 80
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 55
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 38
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 81
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 Your Latest Trick

About the Chord Progressions

Section Progression Songs with this progression
Intro
i VIIadd9 v7 i IV VII V(hmin)
No other theorytabs with this progression
Verse
III iv VII64 iv7sus4 VII6 I6(maj) iv7
No other theorytabs with this progression
Chorus
VI VII III VIadd9 iv7 III64 iv6
No other theorytabs with this progression
Solo 1
i6 VI7 VIIadd9 v7 VIadd9 IV(maj) VII
No other theorytabs with this progression
Solo 2
i6 VI7 VIIadd9 v7 VIadd9 IV(maj) VII
No other theorytabs with this progression
Instrumental
i6 VI7 VIIadd9 v7 VIadd9 IV(maj) VII
No other theorytabs with this progression

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 – E5
Melody range across 22 semitones
0.86 beats/note
Across 330.3 beats of melody
Stepwise Motion
Jumpiness
Repeaty
97% Diatonic
Percentage of notes within the song's key.
70% 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
80
Measures how diverse and sophisticated the chord vocabulary is in this song.
Percentile: 80/100 — above average
Melodic Complexity
55
Measures the range, intervallic variety, and rhythmic complexity of the melody.
Percentile: 55/100 — above average
Chord-Melody Tension
38
Measures how much the melody notes clash or harmonize with the underlying chords.
Percentile: 38/100 — below average
Chord Prog. Novelty
81
Measures how unusual or unexpected the chord progressions are compared to common patterns.
Percentile: 81/100 — above average
Chord-Bass Melody
54
Measures the melodic movement of the bass notes across chord changes.
Percentile: 54/100 — above average

Metrics Radar Chart

Your Latest TrickAverage 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.

Created and Maintained by You

TheoryTab is the world's largest collection of songs analyzed by their underlying chord progressions and melodies. Every tab is crowd-sourced and community-maintained — contributed by musicians like you who want to help others understand how music works.

Unlike traditional tabs or sheet music, TheoryTabs reveal the function of each chord and note, making it easy to see patterns, compare songs, and discover what makes your favorite music tick.

Become a Contributor
Hookpad screenshot

Made with Hookpad

Hookpad is an intelligent music sketchpad that helps you write amazing chord progressions and melodies. It uses the tools of music theory to help you find the sounds you're looking for.

Learn More Contribute a Tab

Frequently Asked
Questions

Everything you need to know about TheoryTab.

TheoryTab is the world's largest database of songs analyzed by their chord progressions and melodies. Each entry breaks a song into its harmonic and melodic components using relative notation, making it easy to see the music theory behind any song.
TheoryTabs are crowd-sourced and community-maintained. Musicians use Hookpad — our intelligent music sketchpad — to transcribe songs by ear, identifying the chords and melodies and entering them in a standardized format that anyone can read and learn from.
Roman numerals represent chords by their position in a key rather than by letter name. For example, in the key of C major, I = C, IV = F, V = G, and vi = Am. This relative notation makes it easy to compare chord progressions across songs in different keys. Click here to learn more about relative notation.
Yes! Anyone can contribute. Visit our Contributor Guide to learn how to use Hookpad to transcribe songs. Your contributions help musicians worldwide learn and understand music theory through real songs.

All of our TheoryTabs are contributed to our site by users like you! Every TheoryTab can be revised at any time by any registered user. Each TheoryTab has a full version history similar to Wikipedia.

To edit a TheoryTab, follow this guide.

Please note: Hooktheory is a collaborative, community-driven project, and maintaining quality and respectful contributions is essential. Users may be flagged if they:

  • Consistently submit inaccurate, misleading, or intentionally incorrect TheoryTabs.
  • Delete or overwrite good work from other contributors without reason.
  • Use offensive, inappropriate, or spammy content in their submissions.
  • Repeatedly ignore transcription guidelines or community feedback.
Relative notation describes chords and notes by their function within a key, rather than by their absolute pitch. This means a I–V–vi–IV progression is the same pattern whether the song is in C major, G major, or any other key — making it much easier to recognize common patterns across songs.