Sweet Dreams My LA Ex – Pre-Chorus
Sweet Dreams My LA Ex – Chorus
Sweet Dreams My LA Ex – Bridge
Related Music Concepts
Extended Chords
Stacking thirds beyond the 7th to create more complex sounds
Suspended Chords
A chord with built in tension and release
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
Basic Chords
Chords naturally found in the key
Inverted Chords
Using a different bass note to change a chord's sound
Song Stats
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Key
A Dorian
Tempo
130 BPM
Meter
12/4
Genre
Pop, Dance/Electronic
Melody Range
A3 – D5
Mood
Tense, Complex, Unexpected
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
88
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
98
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
96
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
70
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
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Key
A Dorian
Tempo
130 BPM
Meter
12/4
Genre
Pop, Dance/Electronic
Melody Range
G#3 – A4
Mood
Simple, Classic
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
8
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
58
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
14
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
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Key
A Dorian
Tempo
120 BPM
Meter
12/4
Genre
Pop, Dance/Electronic
Melody Range
E4 – D5
Mood
Unexpected
Most Used Chord
i
Chord Complexity
49
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
75
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
60
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
78
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
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Key
A Dorian
Tempo
130 BPM
Meter
12/4
Genre
Pop, Dance/Electronic
Melody Range
G#3 – D5
Mood
Tense
Most Used Chord
I
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
91
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
83
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
56
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 Sweet Dreams My LA Ex
About the Key
A Dorian
It is the 2nd most popular key among Dorian keys and the 31st most popular among all keys. The A Dorian scale is similar to the A Minor scale except that its 6th note is a half step higher (F♯).
i ii IV VII
Most Important Chords
Chord progressions in Dorian have a characteristic sound due to the major quality of the chord built on the 4th scale degree.
A Dorian Cheat Sheet
Popular chords, progressions, downloadable MIDI files and more
About the Chord Progressions
| Section | Progression | Songs with this progression |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-Chorus |
i
IV9
IIsus4
II
|
No other theorytabs with this progression |
| Chorus |
i
iv
II
|
|
| Bridge |
i
IV64
VII
III64
|
|
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.
G#3 – D5
Melody range across 18 semitones
2.78 beats/note
Across 384.0 beats of melody
Stepwise Motion
Jumpiness
Repeaty
91%
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).
Steady
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
57
Measures how diverse and sophisticated the chord vocabulary is in this song.
Percentile: 57/100 — above average
Melodic Complexity
91
Measures the range, intervallic variety, and rhythmic complexity of the melody.
Percentile: 91/100 — above average
Chord-Melody Tension
83
Measures how much the melody notes clash or harmonize with the underlying chords.
Percentile: 83/100 — above average
Chord Prog. Novelty
56
Measures how unusual or unexpected the chord progressions are compared to common patterns.
Percentile: 56/100 — above average
Chord-Bass Melody
44
Measures the melodic movement of the bass notes across chord changes.
Percentile: 44/100 — below average
Song Data
Metrics Radar Chart
Sweet Dreams My LA ExAverage 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.
