by OntiqoUnpublished Critics by Australian Crawl and Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses: how alike are they?
Sonalize compared the two recordings: 91%, near-identical or shared recording.
| Harmony | 100% |
|---|---|
| Melody | 94% |
| Sound | 46% |
| Rhythm | 66% |
Consistent with the same recording being reused (a sample) or a faithful cover or re-recording.
| Unpublished Critics | Sweet Child O' Mine | |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Australian Crawl | Guns N' Roses |
| Key | C Major | C# Major |
| Tempo | 123 BPM | 126 BPM |
| Most alike passage | 0:10–1:15 | 1:25–2:31 |
Track B moved down 1 semitones (C# Major to C Major)
On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is close: as alike as other versions, or as songs very much in the same style (distance 0.74; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).
Why this pair
This is a pair from a publicly reported dispute. Public background: chords / feel; No claim; Australian Crawl's guitarist called it a common progression. Sonalize's scores are measurements, not a view on any dispute.
How this was measured
Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.
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