Starlight – Intro
Starlight – Verse
Starlight – Pre-Chorus
Related Music Concepts
Basic Chords
Chords naturally found in the key
Non-Standard Mode
New scales and home base chords for a different mood
Diminished Chords
A chord built from stacked minor thirds — dark and unstable
Chord-Melody Tension
How much the melody clashes with the underlying chords
Borrowed Chords
Using chords from parallel modes for contrast and emotion
Song Stats
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Key
D Phrygian
Tempo
85 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Pop, Dance/Electronic, Ambient/Downtempo
Melody Range
D3 – D4
Mood
Smooth, Simple
Most Used Chord
i(no3)
Chord Complexity
16
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
10
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
22
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.
Concepts
Song Stats
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Key
D Phrygian
Tempo
85 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Pop, Dance/Electronic, Ambient/Downtempo
Melody Range
G3 – F4
Mood
Tense
Most Used Chord
i(no3no5)
Chord Complexity
50
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
63
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
53
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
D Phrygian Dominant
Tempo
170 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Pop, Dance/Electronic, Ambient/Downtempo
Melody Range
F#3 – G4
Mood
Tense, Unexpected, Upbeat
Most Used Chord
I
Chord Complexity
59
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
87
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
86
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
73
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.
Concepts
Song Stats
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Keys
D Phrygian, D Phrygian Dominant
Tempo
85 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Pop, Dance/Electronic, Ambient/Downtempo
Melody Range
D3 – G4
Mood
Tense
Most Used Chord
i(no3no5)
Chord Complexity
43
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
77
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
83
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
49
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 Starlight
About the Key
D Phrygian
It is the 3rd most popular key among Phrygian keys and the 51st most popular among all keys. The D Phrygian scale is similar to the D Minor scale except that its 2nd note (E♭) is a half step lower.
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Most Important Chords
Chord progressions in Phrygian often rely on the major chord built off of this 2nd scale degree (E♭ major) which gives the key its distinctive sound.
D Phrygian Cheat Sheet
Popular chords, progressions, downloadable MIDI files and more
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.
D3 – G4
Melody range across 17 semitones
0.67 beats/note
Across 112.0 beats of melody
Stepwise Motion
Jumpiness
Repeaty
95%
Diatonic
Percentage of notes within the song's key.
50%
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
43
Measures how diverse and sophisticated the chord vocabulary is in this song.
Percentile: 43/100 — below average
Melodic Complexity
77
Measures the range, intervallic variety, and rhythmic complexity of the melody.
Percentile: 77/100 — above average
Chord-Melody Tension
83
Measures how much the melody notes clash or harmonize with the underlying chords.
Percentile: 83/100 — above average
Chord Prog. Novelty
49
Measures how unusual or unexpected the chord progressions are compared to common patterns.
Percentile: 49/100 — below average
Chord-Bass Melody
83
Measures the melodic movement of the bass notes across chord changes.
Percentile: 83/100 — above average
Song Data
Metrics Radar Chart
StarlightAverage 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.
