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This page is Mode per section, from the stems. It is one of the projects Brandon built and put online. The grown-up details are below, tap Grown-up mode to read them the normal way.

BELIEVEYOUME · Shiner (2025) · mode read from the stems

Mode per section, from the stems

One whole-song key label hides the song. Read off the stems section by section, the home tonic stays put in the bass, while the mode shifts and the voice raises a major 3rd over the band's minor field. This is the data calling the mode, even where it changes verse to chorus.

Phrygian Aeolian Dorian Mixolydian Ionian
How this is read, and why it is trustworthy. Bass yin pitch histogram confirms the home root. The harmony stems (all guitars plus keys, summed) give a chroma profile for what the band prints; the vocal stem gives what the voice sings, rms-gated and octave-folded. Degrees are relative to the tonic; the 3rd, 6th, 7th and 2nd name the mode per section, the vocal 3rd reported apart from the band 3rd. Overtone correction, the major 3rd is the 5th harmonic of the root, so a strong tonic injects false major-3rd energy into raw chroma; the minor 3rd is never an overtone of the root, so it is left untouched. The corrected read makes So Far So agree with the independently verified D-minor audit, which is the validation. Tool: librosa 0.11.0, section_mode_detector.py.
Home tonic F, confirmed by the bass in every window · resolved key: F minor field, vocal raises the M3 (verified card read)
Intro
Verse
Verse
Chorus
Verse
Chorus
Transition
Y-part
0–9s

Intro

F Phrygian
bass C–E♭–F ostinato, stated alone
band 3rd b3 · vocal 3rd b3 · 6th b6 · 7th 7 · 2nd b2
Bass root (tonic check) 1b75
What the band prints 10.11b70.10760.09620.095b60.091
What the voice sings 10.338b20.21450.169b60.05270.052
9–59s

Verse 1

F Aeolian
F pedal, vocal walks the field
⚡ The voice sings the major 3rd over the band's minor field, the album's signature move
band 3rd b3 · vocal 3rd 3 · 6th b6 · 7th b7 · 2nd 2
Bass root (tonic check) 1b75
What the band prints 50.13410.123b60.116b70.11140.084
What the voice sings 40.252b60.20230.157b70.13150.114
59–76s

Verse 1

F Aeolian
F pedal, vocal walks the field
⚡ The voice sings the major 3rd over the band's minor field, the album's signature move
band 3rd b3 · vocal 3rd 3 · 6th b6 · 7th b7 · 2nd 2
Bass root (tonic check) 5b64
What the band prints b30.10850.107b60.10120.09460.094
What the voice sings 50.302b60.20710.12570.112b70.105
76–110s

Chorus 1

F Phrygian
lift at 60s, falls through the flat side
⚡ The voice sings the major 3rd over the band's minor field, the album's signature move
band 3rd b3 · vocal 3rd 3 · 6th b6 · 7th b7 · 2nd b2
Bass root (tonic check) 1b75
What the band prints 50.12310.112b60.111b70.10540.083
What the voice sings b60.2230.192b70.15350.14640.13
110–139s

Verse 2 / Y-part

F Aeolian
F-pedal, vocal A♮ vs guitar A♭
band 3rd b3 · vocal 3rd b3 · 6th b6 · 7th b7 · 2nd 2
Bass root (tonic check) b64b3
What the band prints b30.12b60.10350.101b70.09360.089
What the voice sings b60.2350.216b70.14110.10170.089
139–151s

Chorus 2 / verse

F Dorian
second repeat, lift at 105–120s
⚡ The voice sings the major 3rd over the band's minor field, the album's signature move
band 3rd b3 · vocal 3rd 3 · 6th 6 · 7th 7 · 2nd 2
Bass root (tonic check) 152
What the band prints 50.1420.097b60.08730.085b70.084
What the voice sings 70.28250.23620.10610.083#40.065
151–197s

Transition

F Aeolian
brief brighter bridge cell
⚡ The voice sings the major 3rd over the band's minor field, the album's signature move
band 3rd b3 · vocal 3rd 3 · 6th b6 · 7th b7 · 2nd 2
Bass root (tonic check) 1b22
What the band prints 10.14650.134b70.107b30.0820.077
What the voice sings 50.38830.16940.13620.097b30.079
197–277s

Y-part + hook

F Aeolian
hook at 164.9–179.9s
band 3rd b3 · vocal 3rd b3 · 6th b6 · 7th b7 · 2nd 2
Bass root (tonic check) 15b3
What the band prints 50.12b70.11110.10720.091b30.083
What the voice sings 50.27110.137b60.123b70.11740.08
Mode called from stem evidence, not from the auto-detector's whole-song guess (it mislabels Asleep "D♯ mixolydian"). Asleep's section labels are landmark-aligned to the verified chapter cards; So Far So's section names are not verified yet and are shown by time-window only. The per-section degree tallies are the raw evidence under both.

Palette: The Life Aquatic (Wes Anderson)