Using Math To Judge your Songs’ Hit Potential

Can a computer predict whether or not your song could make you famous?
Using Math to Decode the Beatles
So it took some big brains and fast computers to figure out the opening chord in the Beatles’ song “Hard Day’s Night”, a chord that has plagued guitarists in countless coverbands for decades. Using the fourier transforms in Melodyne’s Direct Note Access (DNA), developed by Peter Neubacker, Dalhousie University professor Jason Brown was able to [...]




