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I Got You (I Feel Good)

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Riff by riff breakdown

Riff #1

The first riff in the song is based around the notes of the D7 chord. Below are all of the notes that are in a D7 arpeggio (notes of the D7 chord).

Here are the note out of that arpeggio that are actually being used.

In addition to the notes of the D7 arpeggio, the note on the 6 fret of the first string is being used as a chromatic approach the note that is in the chord at the 7th fret.

Riff #2

The second riff in the song is really just the same as the first, just transposed down to G on the 4th string. So it uses the notes of a G7 arpeggio with that same chromatic motion. The last note of riff number 2 is just a whole step approach back to the root of the D7 chord. After that riff #1 is played again over the D7 chord.

Riff #3

Riff #3 is not really a "riff", you just have the bass playing an A note over the A7 chord, and a G note over the G7 chord.

Riff #4

And the grand finale of this 12 bar blues is a D9 arpeggio. This D9 arpeggio is just the same notes as the D7 arpeggio that we saw in riff #1 with the addition of the one note, the 9 which is an E in this case. The theory behind that is the subject of another story. Just think of it as a fancier D7 arpeggio.