I Feel Fine | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
| A5 | A5 |
| D7 | Dsus4 Dadd9 | C7 | Csus4 Cadd9 |
| G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 | G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 |
Verse 1
| G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 | G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 | D7 | Dsus4 Dadd9 |
Baby’s good to me, you know she’s happy as can be, you know she said so.
| D5 | C5 | G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 |
I’m in love with her and I feel fine.
Verse 2
Baby says she’s mine, you know, she tells me all the time, you know she said so.
I’m in love with her and I feel fine.
Bridge 1
||: G | Bm | C | D5 :||
I’m so glad that she’s my little girl (ooh-ooh).
She’s so glad she’s telling all the world (ooh-ooh).
Verse 3
That her baby buys her things, you know he buys her diamond rings, you know she said so.
She’s in love with me and I feel fine.
Solo
| G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 | G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 |
| D7 | Dsus4 Dadd9 | D7 | Dsus4 Dadd9 |
| C7 | Csus4 Cadd9 |
| G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 | G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 |
| G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 | G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 |
Verse 4
Baby says she’s mine, you know she tells me all the time, you know she said so.
I’m in love with her and I feel fine.
Bridge 2
I’m so glad that she’s my little girl (ooh-ooh)
She’s so glad she’s telling all the world (ooh-ooh)
Verse 5
That her baby buys her things, you know she buys her diamond rings, you know she said so.
She’s in love with me and I feel fine.
End
| D5 | C5 ||: G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 :||
She’s in love with me and I feel fine.
I Feel Fine Chords: Learn the progressions
The chords for The Beatles‘ 8th hit, I Feel Fine are more of a riff, outlining intervals that can be described as chords in order to help you remember the riffs.
Another example of this kind of tune is Cream’s Sunshine Of Your Love, do compare the two!
The only way to get these kinds of tunes right is to use TAB, and since there are two guitars on the original recording of I Feel Fine, we must modify the part into something that works on just one guitar, has variation, but isn’t too difficult to remember.
Here’s a link to my attempt at doing this: I Feel Fine – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Once you’ve gone through this process, either by studying my TAB or coming up with this hybrid version yourself, just seeing the chords will enable you to play I Feel Fine.
The chord extensions will describe the riff which you can play with variation in an improvised way, making it lots of fun to play I Feel Fine for years to come.
Here are the verse chords, which in their simplest form can be described as a 10-bar blues, but with chord extensions that look like this:
| G7 (I) | Gsus4 Gadd9 | G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 |
| D7 (V) | Dsus4 Dadd9 |
| D5 | C5 (IV) | G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 |
That all feels like a twist on the traditional blues progression which is a nice contrast to what’s coming up.
The bridge acts as a release as the chords are more straightforward when they move I – III – IV – V, like this:
||: G (I) | Bm (III) | C (IV) | D5 (V) :||
Combining the slightly odd blues with a simple diatonic section like this is what made The Beatles so popular, I would go as far as saying that this is the core of popular music and I Feel Fine is a perfect example to showcase this.
Here’s a chord chart.
I Feel Fine Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: I Feel Fine Chord Chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: I Feel Fine iReal Pro. Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key.
I Feel Fine is a great example of an early Beatles tune!
Early Beatles tunes include obvious choices such as I Saw Her Standing There and Twist & Shout. I Feel Fine feels like a more interesting choice for the ’60s covers band.
Here are three more Beatles tunes you could put in this category: Paperback Writer, We Can Work It Out, and my favourite, Don’t Let Me Down.
As the Beatles’ catalogue is immense, there are so many tunes to choose from. Picking the slightly less obvious ones might make your band more interesting.
These tunes do however require that you have rehearsed, whereas I Saw Her Standing There can be played by a band forming in the car park, half an hour before the gig.
The Beatles themselves famously played covers for 8 hours a day in Hamburg before returning to England and becoming the biggest band in the world. They didn’t just form in the car park outside the record label…
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I Feel Fine | Guitar Lesson + TAB
With this guitar lesson, you can learn how to play I Feel Fine by The Beatles using TAB and chord analysis.
| G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 | G7 | Gsus4 Gadd9 | D7 | Dsus4 Dadd9 |
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