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I'll Be True to You by The Oak Ridge Boys and Helpless by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 19%, little in common.

19%Little in common
Harmony46%
Melody67%
Sound37%
Rhythm22%

Some general likeness, such as a key, a tempo or a common chord, of the kind unrelated songs often share.

I'll Be True to YouHelpless
ArtistThe Oak Ridge BoysCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young
KeyE MajorD Major
Tempo144 BPM115 BPM
Most alike passage3:15–3:263:19–3:30

Track B moved up 2 semitones (D Major to E 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 1.09; 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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