Chords with lyrics
id AA18484; Sat, 26 Mar 94 22:46:24 -0500 id AA20192; Sat, 26 Mar 1994 22:46:23 -0500 id AA14710; Sat, 26 Mar 94 22:46:22 EST X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.2 3/2/90) Here is the Easy Chords version of Richard Thompson's "I Feel So Good." I have been playing it in standard tuning: nothing fancy, just banging the chords with a strummed rhythm. I discovered only yesterday that Thompson plays it in dropped-D tuning with a capo at the fourth fret of his guitar, at least in his solo acoustic version. I've just begun to play around with it in his tuning; a number of things I hear on the cut on RUMOUR AND SIGH fall into place naturally, such as the bass line and the melodic hook that opens the song. I have not made any serious effort to transcribe the song. The song has a straightforward structure. On the record it opens with a repeating groove (one bar in C, two beats inA augmentedA minor, two beats in
FF) over which the hook plays. (Playing solo, Thompson just strums a straight-eights ONE-two-three ONE-two-three ONE-two groove in
C majorC on the fourth and fifth strings.) After four bars of the groove come the first verse, the chorus, four bars of groove, the second verse, the chorus, and the bridge. Then comes an instrumental half verse which follows the chords of the regular verse from "I'm old enough to sin etc." on. One more chorus is sung, which ends not by resolving to
A minorAm
Bb majorBb
G+G
AbAb
