Song comparisons

Piece of My Heart by Melissa Etheridge and Piece of My Heart by Big Brother & The Holding Company: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 96%, near-identical or shared recording.

96%Near-identical or shared recording
Harmony100%
Melody100%
Sound91%
Rhythm26%

Consistent with the same recording being reused (a sample) or a faithful cover or re-recording.

Piece of My HeartPiece of My Heart
ArtistMelissa EtheridgeBig Brother & The Holding Company
KeyB MinorB Major
Tempo156 BPM162 BPM
Most alike passage0:01–3:370:02–3:32

Same key

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 0.31; 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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