Hong Kong – Verse
Hong Kong – Bridge
Related Music Concepts
Inverted Chords
Using a different bass note to change a chord's sound
Non-Standard Mode
New scales and home base chords for a different mood
Borrowed Chords
Using chords from parallel modes for contrast and emotion
Chord-Melody Tension
How much the melody clashes with the underlying chords
Song Stats
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Key
G Lydian
Tempo
144 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Rock, Ambient/Downtempo, Experimental/Avant-Garde
Melody Range
D4 – F#5
Mood
Smooth, Unexpected, Upbeat
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
62
Chord Complexity: Tracks when a song goes beyond simple three-note chords—either by adding extra tones (like 7ths or add9s) or by borrowing notes from outside the key—creating richer, more sophisticated harmonies.
Melodic Complexity
29
Melodic Complexity: Reflects two factors: the use of notes outside the key and rhythmic syncopation, together capturing how intricate or surprising a melody feels.
Chord-Melody Tension
13
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
78
Chord Prog. Novelty: Measures how uncommon a song's chord changes are compared to others in the Hooktheory database, highlighting progressions that deviate from typical patterns.
Song Stats
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Key
G Lydian
Tempo
144 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Rock, Ambient/Downtempo, Experimental/Avant-Garde
Melody Range
E3 – C4
Mood
Tense, Complex, Unexpected, Upbeat
Most Used Chord
II
Chord Complexity
92
Chord Complexity: Tracks when a song goes beyond simple three-note chords—either by adding extra tones (like 7ths or add9s) or by borrowing notes from outside the key—creating richer, more sophisticated harmonies.
Melodic Complexity
68
Melodic Complexity: Reflects two factors: the use of notes outside the key and rhythmic syncopation, together capturing how intricate or surprising a melody feels.
Chord-Melody Tension
98
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
77
Chord Prog. Novelty: Measures how uncommon a song's chord changes are compared to others in the Hooktheory database, highlighting progressions that deviate from typical patterns.
Song Stats
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Key
G Lydian
Tempo
144 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Rock, Ambient/Downtempo, Experimental/Avant-Garde
Melody Range
E3 – F#5
Mood
Tense, Complex, Unexpected, Upbeat
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
84
Chord Complexity: Tracks when a song goes beyond simple three-note chords—either by adding extra tones (like 7ths or add9s) or by borrowing notes from outside the key—creating richer, more sophisticated harmonies.
Melodic Complexity
50
Melodic Complexity: Reflects two factors: the use of notes outside the key and rhythmic syncopation, together capturing how intricate or surprising a melody feels.
Chord-Melody Tension
78
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
80
Chord Prog. Novelty: Measures how uncommon a song's chord changes are compared to others in the Hooktheory database, highlighting progressions that deviate from typical patterns.
About Hong Kong
About the Key
G Lydian
It is the 5th most popular key among Lydian keys and the 63rd most popular among all keys. The G Lydian scale is similar to the G Major scale except that its 4th note (C♯) is a half step higher.
I II
Most Important Chords
Music written in Lydian often emphasizes this difference by creating melodies that feature this note. Due to the dissonant interval between the 1st and 4th scale degrees, Lydian is less common in popular music.
G Lydian Cheat Sheet
Popular chords, progressions, downloadable MIDI files and more
About the Chord Progressions
| Section | Progression | Songs with this progression |
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| Verse |
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No other theorytabs with this progression |
| Bridge |
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About the Melody
Melody data is compiled from all analyzed melody sections, so depending on how a user analyzed a song, "melody" might include instrumental notes.
E3 – F#5
Melody range across 26 semitones
2.46 beats/note
Across 160.0 beats of melody
Stepwise Motion
Jumpiness
Repeaty
92%
Diatonic
Percentage of notes within the song's key.
60%
Chord Tones
Percentage of notes that fall on a chord tone of the underlying harmony.
Mixed
Consonance
How smoothly the melody blends with the harmony (0 = dissonant, 1 = consonant).
Loose
Syncopation
How often the melody emphasizes off-beats. Higher = more syncopated.
About the Metrics
Chord Complexity
Chord Complexity tracks when a song goes beyond simple three-note chords—either by adding extra tones (like 7ths or add9s) or by borrowing notes from outside the key—creating richer, more sophisticated harmonies.
Melodic Complexity
Melodic Complexity reflects two factors: the use of notes outside the key and rhythmic syncopation, together capturing how intricate or surprising a melody feels.
Chord-Melody Tension
Chord-Melody Tension quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Progression Novelty
Chord Progression Novelty measures how uncommon a song's chord changes are compared to others in the Hooktheory database, highlighting progressions that deviate from typical patterns.
Chord-Bass Melody
Chord–Bass Melody evaluates how smoothly the bass moves between chords, scoring higher when it travels step-wise, ascending or descending, instead of jumping directly between root position chords.
Hooktheory's metrics are calculated against the entire database of analyzed songs, where 50 is the "average song." Learn more about each of these metrics here.
Chord Complexity
84
Measures how diverse and sophisticated the chord vocabulary is in this song.
Percentile: 84/100 — above average
Melodic Complexity
50
Measures the range, intervallic variety, and rhythmic complexity of the melody.
Percentile: 50/100 — average
Chord-Melody Tension
78
Measures how much the melody notes clash or harmonize with the underlying chords.
Percentile: 78/100 — above average
Chord Prog. Novelty
80
Measures how unusual or unexpected the chord progressions are compared to common patterns.
Percentile: 80/100 — above average
Chord-Bass Melody
64
Measures the melodic movement of the bass notes across chord changes.
Percentile: 64/100 — above average
Song Data
Metrics Radar Chart
Hong KongAverage Song
BPM Comparison
Melody Distribution
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Melodic Intervals
Distribution of note-to-note jumps in semitones (negative = downward, positive = upward)
Note Durations
How long each note is held (in beats)
Syncopation
How many notes fall on each level of metric strength (0 = on-beat, higher = increasingly off-beat)
Level 0
Notes that fall on the downbeat — the strongest metric position in the measure.
Level 1
Notes on a secondary strong beat (e.g. beat 3 in 4/4) — still firmly on the grid.
Level 2
Notes on the remaining primary beats (2 and 4 in 4/4) — moderate metric weight.
Level 3
Notes on eighth-note offbeats — between the primary beats. Audibly syncopated.
