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Be Like You
Song Analysis

Be Like You Chords and Melody

Be Like You
Be Like You – Intro
Be Like You – Verse
Be Like You – Pre-Chorus
Be Like You – Chorus

Related Music Concepts

Inverted Chords
Using a different bass note to change a chord's sound
Augmented Chords
A chord with a raised fifth that creates a bright, unresolved tension
Suspended Chords
A chord with built in tension and release
Altered Chords
Altered (raised or lowered) notes create tension and complexity in chords
Borrowed Chords
Using chords from parallel modes for contrast and emotion
Basic Chords
Chords naturally found in the key
Non-Standard Mode
New scales and home base chords for a different mood
Seventh Chords
Adding one more note to the basic chords
Secondary Chords
Chords that temporarily shift the harmonic center
Song Stats Intro
Tempo 120 BPM
Meter 4/4
Genre Jazz, Pop, Singer-Songwriter
Melody Range Eb3 – Eb4
Mood Tense, Unexpected, Bright
Most Used Chord I
Chord Complexity 60
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 93
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 66
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 120 BPM
Meter 4/4
Genre Jazz, Pop, Singer-Songwriter
Melody Range Eb3 – G3
Mood Tense, Simple
Most Used Chord I
Chord Complexity 13
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 15
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 78
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 24
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 Pre-Chorus
Tempo 120 BPM
Meter 4/4
Genre Jazz, Pop, Singer-Songwriter
Melody Range C3 – F4
Mood Tense, Bright
Most Used Chord vi
Chord Complexity 39
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 63
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 87
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 52
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 120 BPM
Meter 4/4
Genre Jazz, Pop, Singer-Songwriter
Melody Range Eb3 – Eb4
Mood Tense, Bright
Most Used Chord I
Chord Complexity 31
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 76
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 63
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 37
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 120 BPM
Meter 4/4
Genre Jazz, Pop, Singer-Songwriter
Melody Range C3 – F4
Mood Tense, Bright
Most Used Chord I
Chord Complexity 36
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 74
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 80
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 44
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 Be Like You

About the Key

About the Chord Progressions

Section Progression Songs with this progression
Intro
I vi6 VII6sus2(b5)(mix) IV ♭IV
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Verse
I IV VII
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Pre-Chorus
vi V/V IV V7
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Chorus
I V7/vi vi IV
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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.

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C3 – F4
Melody range across 17 semitones
1.17 beats/note
Across 164.0 beats of melody
Stepwise Motion
Jumpiness
Repeaty
93% Diatonic
Percentage of notes within the song's key.
57% 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
36
Measures how diverse and sophisticated the chord vocabulary is in this song.
Percentile: 36/100 — below average
Melodic Complexity
74
Measures the range, intervallic variety, and rhythmic complexity of the melody.
Percentile: 74/100 — above average
Chord-Melody Tension
80
Measures how much the melody notes clash or harmonize with the underlying chords.
Percentile: 80/100 — above average
Chord Prog. Novelty
44
Measures how unusual or unexpected the chord progressions are compared to common patterns.
Percentile: 44/100 — below average
Chord-Bass Melody
13
Measures the melodic movement of the bass notes across chord changes.
Percentile: 13/100 — below average

Metrics Radar Chart

Be Like YouAverage Song

BPM Comparison

Melody Distribution

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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.

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