Fever by Rita Coolidge

Overview

Key: A minor · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 11

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Verse → Chorus → Solo → 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

Intro

• Am – E7♭9 – Am – F9 – E7♭9 – Am – E7
  i – V7b9 – i – bVI9 – V7b9 – i – V7

Verse 1

• Am – E7♭9 – Am – F9 – E7♭9 – Am9
  i – V7b9 – i – bVI9 – V7b9 – i9

Chorus 1

• Am – E7♭9 – Am – F9 – E7♭9 – Am9
  i – V7b9 – i – bVI9 – V7b9 – i9

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo 1

• Am – E7♭9 – Am – F9 – E7♭9 – Am9
  i – V7b9 – i – bVI9 – V7b9 – i9

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

• Am – E7♭9 – Am – F9 – E7♭9 – Am
  i – V7b9 – i – bVI9 – V7b9 – i

Solo 2

Same chords as Solo 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0692, 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.