I Feel the Earth Move by Carole King

Overview

Key: C minor · Chords used: 20 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Solo → Bridge → Break → Chorus → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). 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.

Key changes

• Bridge 1 moves to E♭ major.
• Chorus 2 moves to C minor.
• Bridge 2 moves to E♭ major.
• Break moves to C minor.

Section by section

Intro

• Cm7 – F/C (×4)
  i7 – IV⁶₄

Chorus 1

• Cm7 – F/C (×2)
  i7 – IV⁶₄
• Cm7 – F7 – Cm9 – Dm7/C♯ – A♭/B♭
  i7 – IV7 – i9 – ii7 (bass C♯) – bVI (bass B♭)

Bridge 1

• E♭maj7 – Fm – Gm – A♭maj7 – Fm7 – A♭/B♭ (×2)
  Imaj7 – ii – iii – IVmaj7 – ii7 – IV (bass B♭)
• F/G
  II (bass G)

Chorus 2

• Cm7 – F/C (×2)
  i7 – IV⁶₄
• Cm7 – F7 – Cm9 – Dm7 – Cm7 – F6
  i7 – IV7 – i9 – ii7 – i7 – IV6

Solo

• Cm7 – F/C – Cm7 – F7 (×2)
  i7 – IV⁶₄ – i7 – IV7
• Cm7/F – F9
  i7 (bass F) – IV9
• Cm7 – F7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• A♭/B♭
  bVI (bass B♭)

Bridge 2

• E♭maj7 – A♭maj7 – Fm7 – A♭/B♭ – E♭maj7 – Fm – Gm – A♭maj7 – Fm7 – A♭/B♭ – F/G
  Imaj7 – IVmaj7 – ii7 – IV (bass B♭) – Imaj7 – ii – iii – IVmaj7 – ii7 – IV (bass B♭) – II (bass G)

Break

• Cm7 – F/C (×4)
  i7 – IV⁶₄

Chorus 3

• Cm7 – F/C (×4)
  i7 – IV⁶₄
• Cm7 – F7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• Cm7 – F/C
  i7 – IV⁶₄

Outro

• Cm7 – F/C (×3)
  i7 – IV⁶₄
• Cm7 – Dm7/C – Cm7 – B♭7/C – A♭maj7/C – B♭maj7/C
  i7 – ii⁴₂ – i7 – bVII7 (bass C) – bVImaj⁶₅ – bVIImaj7 (bass C)

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F/C (IV⁶₄) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.
• Dm7 (ii7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.
• F6 (IV6) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.
• Dm7/C (ii⁴₂) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). Expert chord and structure annotation of the original recording (CC BY 4.0 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.