Song comparisons

My Sweet Lord (Live) by Billy Preston and My Sweet Lord by George Harrison: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 100%, another version of the same song.

100%Another version of the same song
Harmony100%
Melody100%
Sound80%
Rhythm41%

Raised to 100% by the other-version check, which finds these to be versions of the same song; the engine's own measure was 96%.

My Sweet Lord (Live)My Sweet Lord
ArtistBilly PrestonGeorge Harrison
KeyF# MajorC# Minor
Tempo118 BPM121 BPM
Most alike passage0:11–2:580:10–2:52

Same key

Shared recording: the audio of My Sweet Lord (Live) at 0:01–4:43 appears in My Sweet Lord at 0:00–4:36.

On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is as close as other versions of the same song usually are (distance 0.11; 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).

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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