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How To Disappear Completely
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How To Disappear Completely Chords and Melody

How To Disappear Completely
How To Disappear Completely – Intro
How To Disappear Completely – Verse
How To Disappear Completely – Chorus
How To Disappear Completely – Pre-Outro
How To Disappear Completely – Outro

Related Music Concepts

Inverted Chords
Using a different bass note to change a chord's sound
Seventh Chords
Adding one more note to the basic chords
Add Chords
A chord with an added tone that enriches its sound
Chord Progression Novelty
How unusual the chord sequence is compared to other songs
Suspended Chords
A chord with built in tension and release
Borrowed Chords
Using chords from parallel modes for contrast and emotion
Secondary Chords
Chords that temporarily shift the harmonic center
Song Stats Intro
Tempo 52 BPM
Meter 6/4
Genre Electronic, Alternative
Melody Range E2 – E3
Mood Tense, Complex, Unexpected, Mellow, Moody
Most Used Chord VI
Chord Complexity 84
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 32
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 74
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 98
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 154 BPM
Meter 6/4
Genre Electronic, Alternative
Melody Range F#3 – C#4
Mood Smooth, Unexpected, Upbeat, Moody
Most Used Chord VI
Chord Complexity 44
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 8
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 8
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 84
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 Chorus
Tempo 155 BPM
Meter 6/4
Genre Electronic, Alternative
Melody Range C#4 – A4
Mood Smooth, Unexpected, Upbeat, Moody
Most Used Chord III
Chord Complexity 44
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 34
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 10
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 89
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-Outro
Tempo 152 BPM
Meter 6/4
Genre Electronic, Alternative
Melody Range F#4 – E5
Mood Complex, Unexpected, Upbeat, Moody
Most Used Chord VIsus4
Chord Complexity 91
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 32
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 96
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 Outro
Tempo 153 BPM
Meter 6/4
Genre Electronic, Alternative
Melody Range A4 – A5
Mood Smooth, Upbeat, Moody
Most Used Chord i
Chord Complexity 32
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 14
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 20
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty 48
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 52 BPM
Meter 6/4
Genre Electronic, Alternative
Melody Range E2 – A5
Mood Smooth, Complex, Unexpected, Mellow, Moody
Most Used Chord i
Chord Complexity 72
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 69
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 80
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 How To Disappear Completely

About the Key

About the Chord Progressions

Section Progression Songs with this progression
Intro
VI42 i64
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Diamonds by Rihanna
Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits
Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor
Champagne Showers by LMFAO
Unison by Porter Robinson
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Verse
VI i
Passion for Exploring by SoulEye
X You by Avicii
Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now by Mitch Benn And The Distractions
The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
Unison by Porter Robinson
Video Games by Lana Del Rey
Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits
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Chorus
III i
This Is What It Feels Like by Armin van Buuren
Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple
This Is Gallifrey by Murray Gold
I'm Like A Lawyer by Fall Out Boy
Suicide Is Painless by Johnny Mandel and Mike Altman
Wayfarer by Audien
Wake Me Up by Avicii
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Pre-Outro
VI7sus4 VI iadd9
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Outro
v7add6/VI i6 IIIadd9 i VII i VII
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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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E2 – A5
Melody range across 41 semitones
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4+ beats/note
Across 594.0 beats of melody
Stepwise Motion
Jumpiness
Repeaty
99% Diatonic
Percentage of notes within the song's key.
75% Chord Tones
Percentage of notes that fall on a chord tone of the underlying harmony.
Edgy 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
72
Measures how diverse and sophisticated the chord vocabulary is in this song.
Percentile: 72/100 — above average
Melodic Complexity
69
Measures the range, intervallic variety, and rhythmic complexity of the melody.
Percentile: 69/100 — above average
Chord-Melody Tension
23
Measures how much the melody notes clash or harmonize with the underlying chords.
Percentile: 23/100 — below average
Chord Prog. Novelty
80
Measures how unusual or unexpected the chord progressions are compared to common patterns.
Percentile: 80/100 — above average
Chord-Bass Melody
16
Measures the melodic movement of the bass notes across chord changes.
Percentile: 16/100 — below average

Metrics Radar Chart

How To Disappear CompletelyAverage 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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