by OntiqoWhy Does It Have to Be (Wrong or Right) by Restless Heart and Love Is a Verb by John Mayer: how alike are they?
Sonalize compared the two recordings: 23%, little in common.
| Harmony | 50% |
|---|---|
| Melody | 52% |
| Sound | 63% |
| Rhythm | 36% |
Some general likeness, such as a key, a tempo or a common chord, of the kind unrelated songs often share.
| Why Does It Have to Be (Wrong or Right) | Love Is a Verb | |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Restless Heart | John Mayer |
| Key | A Major | E Major |
| Tempo | 89 BPM | 132 BPM |
| Most alike passage | 0:22–0:31 | 0:28–0:37 |
Track B moved up 5 semitones (E Major to A 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 1.61; 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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