Feelin' Stronger Every Day by Chicago

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 20 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → Bridge → Outro

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

Intro

• Dm7 – Fmaj7 – G7 – G – C – F (×2)
  vi7 – Imaj7 – II7 – II – V – I
• C7
  V7

Verse 1

• C – E♭ – B♭ – E♭/B♭ – B♭ – F – E♭/B♭ – B♭ – F (×2)
  V – bVII – IV – bVII⁶₄ – IV – I – bVII⁶₄ – IV – I

Chorus 1

• Am7 – Dm7 (×2)
  iii7 – vi7
• Fmaj7 – G7
  Imaj7 – II7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• Am7 – Dm7 – Am7
  iii7 – vi7 – iii7

Interlude

• Dm7 – F – G – C – F (×2)
  vi7 – I – II – V – I
• C7
  V7

Bridge

• G – C – D – C – G – C
  II – V – VI – V – II – V
• A7 – E7 – B – F♯ – C♯ – B (×2)
  III7 – VII7 – #IV – #I – #V – #IV

Outro

• A – E – B7 (×16)
  III – VII – #IV7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• E♭/B♭ (bVII⁶₄) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• C♯ (#V) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• G acts as V/V: it resolves to C.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0366, 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.