Feel Like Making Love by Roberta Flack

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 12 · Sections: 8

Form: Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Verse 1

• Fm9 – B♭9sus4 – E♭maj7 – D♭7 – C7 – Fm9 – B♭9sus4 – E♭maj7 – A7♯11
  ii9 – V9sus4 – Imaj7 – bVII7 – VI7 – ii9 – V9sus4 – Imaj7 – #IV7#11

Chorus 1

• A♭maj7 – Gm7 – Fm7 – Cm – A♭maj7 – Gm7 – D♭7♯11 – Cm – F7
  IVmaj7 – iii7 – ii7 – vi – IVmaj7 – iii7 – bVII7#11 – vi – II7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• C7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Fm9.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0221, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.