Chords + Lyrics | (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Intro
||: E A/C# | D A/C# :||
Chorus 1
| E7 | E7 | A7 | A7 | E7 | E7 | A7 | A7 |
I can’t get no, satisfaction. I can’t get no, satisfaction.
| E7 | B7 | E7 | A7 |
‘Cause I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
| E A/C# | D A/C# | E A/C# | D A/C# |
I can’t get no, I can’t get no.
Verse 1
||: E A/C# | D A/C# :||
When I’m driving in my car.
When a man comes on the radio.
He’s telling me more and more.
About some useless information,
supposed to fire my imagination.
| E A/C# | D A/C# | N.C | N.C |
I can’t get no, oh, no, no, no.
| E A/C# | D A/C# | E A/C# | D A/C# |
Hey, hey, hey. That’s what I say.
Chorus 2
I can’t get no, satisfaction. I can’t get no, satisfaction.
‘Cause I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
I can’t get no, I can’t get no.
Verse 2
When I’m watchin’ my TV.
And a man comes on and tells me.
How white my shirts can be.
But he can’t be a man ’cause he doesn’t smoke,
the same cigarettes as me.
I can’t get no, oh, no, no, no.
Hey, hey, hey. That’s what I say.
Chorus 3
I can’t get no, satisfaction. I can’t get no, girl reaction.
‘Cause I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
I can’t get no, I can’t get no.
Verse 3
When I’m ridin’ ’round the world.
And I’m doin’ this and I’m signin’ that.
And I’m tryin’ to make some girl, who tells me.
Baby, better come back maybe next week,
can’t you see I’m on a losing streak?
| E A/C# | D A/C# | N.C | N.C |
I can’t get no, oh, no, no, no.
Chorus 4
||: E A/C# | D A/C# :||
Hey, hey, hey. That’s what I say.
I can’t get no, I can’t get no, I can’t get no.
Satisfaction, no satisfaction, no satisfaction, no satisfaction.
I can’t get no.
Satisfaction Backing Tracks | Chord Analysis
Above, you’ll find backing tracks to use when learning The Rolling Stones Satisfaction. I’ve used stem separation to extract the guitar while keeping the drums, bass, keys, horns, and vocals intact.
After studying the chords and TAB, use my backing tracks to prepare for playing this tune with a band.
Chord Progressions – What’s Going On?
You can use chords to remember the main riff of (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, although you’ll probably need tablature (TAB) to get it right first. Then, come back to the backing tracks you find above.
Analysing the chords using Roman numerals, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction‘s chords are I – IV – bVIIx, like this in the key of E:
||: E A/C# | D A/C# :||
That bVIIx is a classic rock and roll chord often referred to as a backdoor dominant. This main riff is played for the intro and verse.
Chorus
The chorus is more like a blues, although the chord progression isn’t your average 12-bar blues, instead, we move like this:
| E7 | E7 | A7 | A7 |
| E7 | E7 | A7 | A7 |
| E7 | B7 | E7 | A7 |
After these 12 bars, that riff is played again for four bars.
I’ve designed some TAB for playing the riff as the only guitarist in a band, keep scrolling to find it.
Once you know how to play like the TAB, try playing alone with the backing track above and this simple chord chart that gives you the arrangement.
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro Download
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction chord chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro. Here’s a link to that file: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction iReal Pro. Using this and the iReal Pro app, you can change the key, although I can’t see why you’d want to!
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction | TAB
Played as single notes, the riff looks like this in TAB:
The chorus is almost identical—just fatten it up with 5 chords and leave the root note to the bass player.
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