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we recently converted Hookpad, our chord and melody sketchpad for teaching and writing music, to a PWA. Prior to being a PWA users often had to redownload samples each time they vi…

We completely rebuilt this in React/Redux from a previous version based in Flash. We think it does some amazing things with the Web Audio API. Some more info about what we are tryi…

Hooktheory is a pretty unique approach to music theory and songwriting. Most books in this area tend to use examples from classical music, while all our examples draw from popular …

Ask and you shall receive. Hooktheory's Trends tool lets you see and hear all the chord progressions of the individual songs used here. As mentioned in the article, this analysis a…

Sorry. We used to have a way to show more than the top 10, but it seems to have been disappeared. I'll make sure that gets added back to make browsing easier.

You can see the more recent and most popular analyses at www.hooktheory.com/analysis

This is something we considered. Part of the problem is that sometimes when people analyze a section of a song, they include a pick up, etc. Other times the song doesn't have a str…

I disagree that a classically trained musician wouldn't be surprised at the predominance of IV -> I in popular music. Plagal cadences aren't nearly as common as V->I in the common …

don't forget a lot of money and promotion. I think that's at least half

That's a good recommendation. I have a feeling it wouldn't change the results much for pop songs. I know Pandora has done some analysis like this for their database, but I thought …