Song comparisons

One Step Up by Bruce Springsteen and Cowboy Romance by Natalie Merchant: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 36%, some shared material.

36%Some shared material
Harmony89%
Melody26%
Sound4%
Rhythm23%

More in common than almost all unrelated pairs. Listen to the matching passages: this can be a shared style or stock chord progression, or a borrowed section.

One Step UpCowboy Romance
ArtistBruce SpringsteenNatalie Merchant
KeyF MajorA Major
Tempo150 BPM112 BPM
Most alike passage4:07–4:161:58–2:08

Track B moved down 4 semitones (A Major to F Major)

On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is alike in style, as songs of the same genre often are, though not the closeness of another version (distance 1.33; 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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