In this work, we describe an efficient method for cover song identification focusing our target on pop and rock music genres. The procedure proposed is based on the fact that every pop/rock song has usually a main melody or a easily recognizing theme inside. Usually this theme or this melody, even if the cover song is really different from the original, is present in every version of the original song. This means that if we can identify the melody in each song we can identify also the original songope
