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Trouble So Hard by Vera Hall and Natural Blues by Moby: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 94%, near-identical or shared recording.

94%Near-identical or shared recording
Harmony46%
Melody10%
Sound41%
Rhythm45%

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

Trouble So HardNatural Blues
ArtistVera HallMoby
KeyA# MajorA# Minor
Tempo75 BPM108 BPM
Most alike passage0:03–0:142:43–2:53

Track B moved up 1 semitones (A# Minor to A# Major)

Shared recording: the audio of Trouble So Hard at 0:00–0:23 appears in Natural Blues at 0:00–0:22.

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 1.37; 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).

Why this pair

This is a recording that samples the other. Public background: vocal; Hall and Lomax credited. Sonalize's scores are measurements, not a view on any dispute.

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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