Good Vibrations – Verse
Good Vibrations – Chorus
Good Vibrations – Chorus Lead-Out
Good Vibrations – Bridge
Related Music Concepts
Seventh Chords
Adding one more note to the basic chords
Borrowed Chords
Using chords from parallel modes for contrast and emotion
Bassline Motion
How much the bass moves stepwise between chord roots
Inverted Chords
Using a different bass note to change a chord's sound
Non-Standard Mode
New scales and home base chords for a different mood
Extended Chords
Stacking thirds beyond the 7th to create more complex sounds
Song Stats
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Key
D♯ Minor
Tempo
153 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Rock, Pop, Experimental
Melody Range
F3 – A#4
Mood
Tense, Upbeat, Moody
Most Used Chord
VII
Chord Complexity
43
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
70
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
36
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
F♯ Mixolydian
Tempo
150 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Rock, Pop, Experimental
Melody Range
F#3 – C#5
Mood
Upbeat
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
53
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
67
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
39
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.
Song Stats
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Key
E♭ Mixolydian
Tempo
150 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Rock, Pop, Experimental
Melody Range
Eb3 – Db5
Mood
Tense, Upbeat
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
53
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
79
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
43
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
F Mixolydian
Tempo
134 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Rock, Pop, Experimental
Melody Range
C4 – A5
Mood
Unexpected
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
61
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
33
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
31
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
65
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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Tempo
153 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Rock, Pop, Experimental
Melody Range
Eb3 – A5
Mood
Upbeat, Moody
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
53
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
51
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
46
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 Good Vibrations
About the Key
D♯ Minor
It is the 10th most popular key among Minor keys and the 22nd most popular among all keys. Minor keys, along with major keys, are a common choice for popular music.
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Most Important Chords
The three most important chords, built off the 1st, 4th and 5th scale degrees are all minor chords (D♯ minor, G♯ minor, and A♯ minor).
D♯ Minor Cheat Sheet
Popular chords, progressions, downloadable MIDI files and more
About the Chord Progressions
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.
Eb3 – A5
Melody range across 30 semitones
1.39 beats/note
Across 220.0 beats of melody
Stepwise Motion
Jumpiness
Repeaty
100%
Diatonic
Percentage of notes within the song's key.
68%
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
53
Measures how diverse and sophisticated the chord vocabulary is in this song.
Percentile: 53/100 — above average
Melodic Complexity
51
Measures the range, intervallic variety, and rhythmic complexity of the melody.
Percentile: 51/100 — above average
Chord-Melody Tension
57
Measures how much the melody notes clash or harmonize with the underlying chords.
Percentile: 57/100 — above average
Chord Prog. Novelty
46
Measures how unusual or unexpected the chord progressions are compared to common patterns.
Percentile: 46/100 — below average
Chord-Bass Melody
59
Measures the melodic movement of the bass notes across chord changes.
Percentile: 59/100 — above average
Song Data
Metrics Radar Chart
Good VibrationsAverage 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.
