Freak Like Me – Intro
Freak Like Me – Verse
Freak Like Me – Pre-Chorus
Freak Like Me – Chorus
Freak Like Me – Instrumental
Related Music Concepts
Basic Chords
Chords naturally found in the key
Non-Standard Mode
New scales and home base chords for a different mood
Chord-Melody Tension
How much the melody clashes with the underlying chords
Diminished Chords
A chord built from stacked minor thirds — dark and unstable
Suspended Chords
A chord with built in tension and release
Secondary Chords
Chords that temporarily shift the harmonic center
Song Stats
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Key
F Mixolydian
Tempo
92 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Pop, R&B/Soul/Funk, Dance/Electronic
Melody Range
A#2 – F4
Mood
Tense, Simple
Most Used Chord
v(no3no5)
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
24
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
85
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
30
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
F Major
Tempo
92 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Pop, R&B/Soul/Funk, Dance/Electronic
Melody Range
A#3 – A#4
Mood
Tense, Simple, Classic, Bright
Most Used Chord
V
Chord Complexity
2
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
98
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
100
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
9
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
F Major
Tempo
92 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Pop, R&B/Soul/Funk, Dance/Electronic
Melody Range
G3 – A#4
Mood
Tense, Bright
Most Used Chord
V
Chord Complexity
41
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
93
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
59
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
F Major
Tempo
92 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Pop, R&B/Soul/Funk, Dance/Electronic
Melody Range
A#3 – C5
Mood
Simple, Classic, Bright
Most Used Chord
V
Chord Complexity
2
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
34
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
27
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
10
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
F Major
Tempo
92 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Pop, R&B/Soul/Funk, Dance/Electronic
Melody Range
A#2 – G5
Mood
Tense, Simple, Bright
Most Used Chord
V(no3)
Chord Complexity
13
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
94
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
96
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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Keys
F Mixolydian, F Major
Tempo
92 BPM
Meter
4/4
Genre
Pop, R&B/Soul/Funk, Dance/Electronic
Melody Range
A#2 – G5
Mood
Tense, Simple
Most Used Chord
V
Chord Complexity
17
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
89
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
97
Chord-Melody Tension: Quantifies how often melody notes fall outside the current chord, producing dissonance that creates a sense of instability.
Chord Prog. Novelty
25
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 Freak Like Me
About the Key
F Mixolydian
It is the 7th most popular key among Mixolydian keys and the 37th most popular among all keys. The F Mixolydian scale is similar to the F Major scale except that its 7th note (E♭) is a half step lower.
I IV VII
Most Important Chords
Mixolydian chord progressions are heavily featured in many genres of music like classic rock, which relies on the major chord built on the 7th scale degree.
F Mixolydian Cheat Sheet
Popular chords, progressions, downloadable MIDI files and more
About the Chord Progressions
| Section | Progression | Songs with this progression |
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| Intro |
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| Verse |
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| Pre-Chorus |
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No other theorytabs with this progression |
| Chorus |
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| Instrumental |
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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.
A#2 – G5
Melody range across 33 semitones
0.46 beats/note
Across 363.0 beats of melody
Stepwise Motion
Jumpiness
Repeaty
87%
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.
Smooth
Consonance
How smoothly the melody blends with the harmony (0 = dissonant, 1 = consonant).
Punchy
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
17
Measures how diverse and sophisticated the chord vocabulary is in this song.
Percentile: 17/100 — below average
Melodic Complexity
89
Measures the range, intervallic variety, and rhythmic complexity of the melody.
Percentile: 89/100 — above average
Chord-Melody Tension
97
Measures how much the melody notes clash or harmonize with the underlying chords.
Percentile: 97/100 — above average
Chord Prog. Novelty
25
Measures how unusual or unexpected the chord progressions are compared to common patterns.
Percentile: 25/100 — below average
Chord-Bass Melody
48
Measures the melodic movement of the bass notes across chord changes.
Percentile: 48/100 — below average
Song Data
Metrics Radar Chart
Freak Like MeAverage 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.
