It's Gonna Work Out Fine by Ike & Tina Turner

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → 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

Intro

• C – E♭ – F – C – F – G (×2)
  I – bIII – IV – I – IV – V

Verse 1

• C – F – C – E♭ – F
  I – IV – I – bIII – IV
• C – F – G (×2)
  I – IV – V
• F♯ – F – E♭ – C – F – G – C – F – C
  #IV – IV – bIII – I – IV – V – I – IV – I

Verse 2

• C – F – C – E♭ – F
  I – IV – I – bIII – IV
• C – F – G (×2)
  I – IV – V
• F♯ – F – E♭ – C – F – G – C – F – C/G
  #IV – IV – bIII – I – IV – V – I – IV – I⁶₄

Chorus 1

• F – C – F – G
  IV – I – IV – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Chorus 2

• F – C (×5)
  IV – I
• F
  IV

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0212, 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.