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Always Something There to Remind Me

Song Analysis

Always Something There to Remind Me Chords and Melody

by Naked Eyes

Always Something There to Remind Me

All Sections Intro Verse Chorus Chorus Lead-Out Instrumental

Always Something There to Remind Me – Intro

Always Something There to Remind Me – Verse

Always Something There to Remind Me – Chorus

Always Something There to Remind Me – Chorus Lead-Out

Always Something There to Remind Me – Instrumental

Related Music Concepts

Non-Standard Mode

New scales and home base chords for a different mood

Borrowed Chords

Using chords from parallel modes for contrast and emotion

Chord-Melody Tension

How much the melody clashes with the underlying chords

Bassline Motion

How much the bass moves stepwise between chord roots

Inverted Chords

Using a different bass note to change a chord's sound

Chords naturally found in the key

A chord with an added tone that enriches its sound

Song Stats ● Intro

Key D Mixolydian

Tempo 151 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range B3 – E5

Mood Tense, Upbeat

Most Used Chord I

Chord Complexity 51

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 94

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 99

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 29

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

Non-Standard Mode Borrowed Chords Chord-Melody Tension Bassline Motion

Song Stats ● Verse

Key D Mixolydian

Tempo 150 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range D3 – C4

Mood Tense, Unexpected, Upbeat

Most Used Chord I

Chord Complexity 69

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 71

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 86

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 85

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

Inverted Chords Non-Standard Mode Borrowed Chords Bassline Motion

Song Stats ● Chorus

Key D Major

Tempo 150 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range F#3 – G4

Mood Upbeat, Bright

Most Used Chord IV

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 57

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 57

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 29

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

Inverted Chords

Song Stats ● Chorus Lead-Out

Key D Major

Tempo 149 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range D3 – G4

Mood Simple, Classic, Upbeat, Bright

Most Used Chord iii

Chord Complexity 9

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 72

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 56

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 8

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

Basic Chords

Song Stats ● Instrumental

Key D Major

Tempo 150 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range F#2 – B3

Mood Smooth, Upbeat, Bright

Most Used Chord iii

Chord Complexity 29

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 64

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 15

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 60

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

Add Chords

Song Stats ● All Sections

Keys D Mixolydian, D Major

Tempo 151 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range F#2 – E5

Mood Tense, Upbeat

Most Used Chord I

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 79

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 81

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 42

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

Non-Standard Mode Borrowed Chords Chord-Melody Tension Bassline Motion Inverted Chords Basic Chords Add Chords

About Always Something There to Remind Me

About the Key

It is the 4th most popular key among Mixolydian keys and the 28th most popular among all keys. The D Mixolydian scale is similar to the D Major scale except that its 7th note (C) 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.

D Mixolydian Cheat Sheet

Popular chords, progressions, downloadable MIDI files and more

About the Chord Progressions

Section	Progression	Songs with this progression
Intro	I VII vi V(maj)	12 songs →
Verse	I V⁶(maj) VII IV⁶ ♭IV⁶	No other theorytabs with this progression
Chorus	IV⁶ I⁶ ii I IV64 I	127 songs →
Chorus Lead-Out	iii vi IV V I	121 songs →
Instrumental	iii vi IV^add6 V	311 songs →

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#2 – E5

Melody range across 34 semitones

1.15 beats/note

Across 176.0 beats of melody

Stepwise Motion

Jumpiness

Repeaty

100% Diatonic

Percentage of notes within the song's key.

58% 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

39

Measures how diverse and sophisticated the chord vocabulary is in this song.

Percentile: 39/100 — below average

Melodic Complexity

79

Measures the range, intervallic variety, and rhythmic complexity of the melody.

Percentile: 79/100 — above average

Chord-Melody Tension

81

Measures how much the melody notes clash or harmonize with the underlying chords.

Percentile: 81/100 — above average

Chord Prog. Novelty

42

Measures how unusual or unexpected the chord progressions are compared to common patterns.

Percentile: 42/100 — below average

Chord-Bass Melody

89

Measures the melodic movement of the bass notes across chord changes.

Percentile: 89/100 — above average

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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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Song Stats ● Intro

Key D Mixolydian

Tempo 151 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range B3 – E5

Mood Tense, Upbeat

Most Used Chord I

Chord Complexity 51

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 94

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 99

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 29

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

Non-Standard Mode Borrowed Chords Chord-Melody Tension Bassline Motion

Song Stats ● Verse

Key D Mixolydian

Tempo 150 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range D3 – C4

Mood Tense, Unexpected, Upbeat

Most Used Chord I

Chord Complexity 69

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 71

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 86

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 85

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

Inverted Chords Non-Standard Mode Borrowed Chords Bassline Motion

Song Stats ● Chorus

Key D Major

Tempo 150 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range F#3 – G4

Mood Upbeat, Bright

Most Used Chord IV

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 57

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 57

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 29

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

Inverted Chords

Song Stats ● Chorus Lead-Out

Key D Major

Tempo 149 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range D3 – G4

Mood Simple, Classic, Upbeat, Bright

Most Used Chord iii

Chord Complexity 9

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 72

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 56

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 8

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

Basic Chords

Song Stats ● Instrumental

Key D Major

Tempo 150 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range F#2 – B3

Mood Smooth, Upbeat, Bright

Most Used Chord iii

Chord Complexity 29

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 64

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 15

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 60

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

Add Chords

Song Stats ● All Sections

Keys D Mixolydian, D Major

Tempo 151 BPM

Meter 4/4

Genre Pop, Dance/Electronic

Melody Range F#2 – E5

Mood Tense, Upbeat

Most Used Chord I

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 79

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 81

Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.

Chord Prog. Novelty 42

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

Non-Standard Mode Borrowed Chords Chord-Melody Tension Bassline Motion Inverted Chords Basic Chords Add Chords

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