Update: 2026-01-18
After publishing this casual post back in 2013, I realize it still gets a decent amount of traffic 13 years later. If you were expecting a deep tutorial with video and tab or sheet music, my apologies. This is just me reflecting on a great tune and applying it to guitar.
The chord changes are below, but if you need more, you can get a good official transcription for “Feels So Good” at Ultimate Guitar. That’s where I go to learn tunes these days anyway.
I got a little free time on Saturday morning and decided I wanted to spend some of it playing guitar. Lately, I’ve spent my guitar playing time alternating in genre between fingerstyle acoustic (a la John Fahey) and singer-songwriter stuff like Richard Thompson and Jim Croce. On this day though, I felt like learning something I could play with my Les Paul and eventually with a band. I suppose it kind of started as a joke, but I decided I wanted to learn, Chuck Mangione’s “Feels so Good.”
Chuck Mangione .Feels So Good [Show Tv] by capitainfunkk
I got through the melody lead sheet a few times to the point where I wasn’t making mistakes but it wasn’t exactly effortless either. The tabs for the rhythm part were actually pretty annoying to the point where I just went looking for the actual lead sheet to read the chord changes that way. I figured, I could interpret the chord voicings quicker that way anyway.
I’m not quite there but I think I’ll be ready within a week. I’m looking forward to a jam session with my bass playing brother-in-law, who I think could really slay that disco beat.
Here they are in the key of G.
Chuck Mangione Feels So Good Chords
G – Em7 – Am7 – D
Bm7 – Em7 – Am7 – F#m5 (add7) – B7
Em7 – Fmaj9 – Em7 – Fmaj9
CHORUS
G – Fmaj9 – Em7 – Em/C
Am7 – Am7 Bm7 – Em/C – C#m6- Dsus4
G – Em7 – Am7 – D7
G – Em7 – Am7 – G/D – C/D
