That Certain Feeling by George Gershwin

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 33 · Sections: 10

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → E Section → F Section → C Section → D Section → E Section → F Section

Where these chords come from: a lead sheet of this public-domain song, contributed by a musician to the Wikifonia archive and preserved in the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). It describes the song as written, not any particular recording. This page shows that lead sheet 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

A Section

• E♭6 – B♭7 (×2)
  I6 – V7
• E♭6 – E♭7 – A♭maj7 – Fm7 – B♭9 – E♭6 – Fm7 – B♭7
  I6 – I7 – IVmaj7 – ii7 – V9 – I6 – ii7 – V7

B Section

• E♭6 – B♭7 – E♭6 – A♭9 – B♭/F – Gm7 – Cm7 – F13 – B♭6 – E♭6 – B♭7/F – Gdim7 – Fm6
  I6 – V7 – I6 – IV9 – V⁶₄ – iii7 – vi7 – II13 – V6 – I6 – V⁴₃ – iii°7 – ii6

C Section 1

• Edim7 – Fm9 – B♭7 – E♭maj7 – E♭6 – Caug7 – C7 – F9
  #i°7 – ii9 – V7 – Imaj7 – I6 – VI+7 – VI7 – II9

D Section 1

• Fm9 – B♭7 – E♭ – E♭m6
  ii9 – V7 – I – i6
• B♭ – Gm (×3)
  V – iii
• B♭ – C7 – C♯dim7 – B♭9
  V – VI7 – #vi°7 – V9

E Section 1

• B♭dim7 – B♭11 – B♭13 – B♭7 – E♭maj7 – E♭6 – G7 – C9
  v°7 – V11 – V13 – V7 – Imaj7 – I6 – III7 – VI9

F Section 1

• F9 – Fm7 – B♭13 – E♭6 – Cm – E♭ – E♭6 – B♭7 – Gdim – Fm6
  II9 – ii7 – V13 – I6 – vi – I – I6 – V7 – iii° – ii6

C Section 2

Same chords as C Section 1.

D Section 2

Same chords as D Section 1.

E Section 2

Same chords as E Section 1.

F Section 2

• F9 – Fm7 – B♭13 – E♭ – Cm – E♭
  II9 – ii7 – V13 – I – vi – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A♭maj7.
• F13 acts as V/V: it resolves to B♭6.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). Community-contributed lead sheet (chord symbols over the melody) from the Wikifonia archive, MIT licence. Title and songwriter credit as written on the sheet.
• Section names: detected by code from repeated 8-, 12- and 16-bar phrases (letters such as A and B mark different phrases; a phrase that comes back keeps its letter). Lead sheets rarely print section names.
• Not verified: only one lead sheet of this song is available, so it hasn't been cross-checked.
• 1 chord was simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.