I Analyzed the Chords to 1,300 Songs for Patterns

me@ryanorban.com (Ryan Orban) — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

Hooktheory built a web application where musicians crowdsourced the chord progressions and melody for thousands of pop songs using a relative key notation (scale degrees rather than absolute pitches). After accumulating 1,300+ annotated songs, they ran a statistical analysis over the dataset — essentially treating music theory questions as data mining problems. The result was a rare piece of quantitative musicology that produced findings graspable by both musicians and data enthusiasts.

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I Analyzed the Chords to 1,300 Songs for Patterns

Summary