I Got You (I Feel Good) by James Brown

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 7

Form: Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Verse

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

• D7 – G7 – D7 – A7 – G7 – D7
  I7 – IV7 – I7 – V7 – IV7 – I7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• G7 – D7 – G7 – A7
  IV7 – I7 – IV7 – V7

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 5

• D7
  I7
• G7 – D7 – A7 (×3)
  IV7 – I7 – V7
• G7 – D7 – D9
  IV7 – I7 – I9

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
D7	I7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Verse, Bridge
G7	IV7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Verse, Bridge
A7	V7	In the key	Verse, Bridge
D9	I9	Outside the key (chromatic)	Verse

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0314, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Cross-check: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. Expert by-ear harmonic analysis of the original recording, shown on this page. Independently transcribed; it matches this page's chords closely (similarity 100%).
• Verified: two independent expert transcriptions agree on this song's harmony.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.