I've Got a Feeling by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Verse → Interlude → Verse → 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.

Section by section

Intro

• A – D/A (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄

Verse 1

• A – D/A (×8)
  I – IV⁶₄
• A7 – E – G
  I7 – V – bVII
• D – A (×2)
  IV – I
• D
  IV

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge

• E – G – D – D/F♯ – G – G♯dim7 – A
  V – bVII – IV – IV⁶ – bVII – vii°7 – I

Verse 3

• A – D/A (×8)
  I – IV⁶₄
• A7 – E – G – D
  I7 – V – bVII – IV

Verse 4

• A – D (×12)
  I – IV

Interlude

• A7 – Adim7 – Bm7♭5/A – A – Bm7♭5/A – Adim7 – A7 – D/A – A – D/A
  I7 – i°7 – iiø⁴₂ – I – iiø⁴₂ – i°7 – I7 – IV⁶₄ – I – IV⁶₄

Verse 5

• A – D/A – A – D/A – A – D – A – D (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄ – I – IV⁶₄ – I – IV – I – IV

Outro

• A
  I
• Adim7 – Bm7♭5/A – A7 (×2)
  i°7 – iiø⁴₂ – I7
• Bm7♭5/A – Adim7 – A7 – Adim7 – Bm7♭5/A – A7 (×2)
  iiø⁴₂ – i°7 – I7 – i°7 – iiø⁴₂ – I7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• G♯dim7 (vii°7) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Bm7♭5/A (iiø⁴₂) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• A7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to D/A.

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.