{"id":16548,"date":"2023-05-25T18:45:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/?p=16548"},"modified":"2026-02-15T21:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:46:54","slug":"to-make-you-feel-my-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/to-make-you-feel-my-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 160%; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;\">Make You Feel My Love was written by Bob Dylan for his album Time Out of Mind (1997). The song became a bit of a modern standard and was covered by more than 450 artists including Billy Joel, Garth Brooks, and Adele.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16562\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/bob-dylan-make-you-feel-my-love.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Dylan - Make You Feel My Love\" width=\"316\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/bob-dylan-make-you-feel-my-love.jpg 316w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/bob-dylan-make-you-feel-my-love-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/bob-dylan-make-you-feel-my-love-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/bob-dylan-make-you-feel-my-love-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Creating guitar instrumentals of pop songs is a good exercise in reharmonization, phrasing, and recognizing melodic patterns.<\/p>\n<p>The melody of Make You Feel My Love is built on a rhythmic and melodic pattern that is repeated throughout the entire song.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good idea to get catchy phrases like these under your fingers to use them in your own jazz solos (like you learn in our course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/courses\/product\/jazz-guitar-patterns-volume-1\/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=link_make_you_feel_my_love\">Jazz Guitar Patterns &amp; Phrases Volume 1<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In this lesson, you will learn how to play an instrumental version of Bob Dylan&#8217;s iconic song, both the chords and the melody.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span style=\"--tl-form-height-m:562.469px;--tl-form-height-t:361.875px;--tl-form-height-d:361.875px;\" class=\"tl-placeholder-f-type-shortcode_10059 tl-preload-form\"><span><\/span><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Make You Feel My Love &#8211; Melody<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IDJTfWnrTto\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The entire melody is in the C# major scale, in these two positions:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16559 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/major-scale-diagram-1.png\" alt=\"C# major scale diagram 1\" width=\"779\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16561 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/major-scale-diagram-2-f.png\" alt=\"Major scale diagram 2\" width=\"779\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/major-scale-diagram-2-f.png 779w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/major-scale-diagram-2-f-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/major-scale-diagram-2-f-768x261.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Backing Track<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"waveplayer-container\"><div id=\"waveplayer-b52beb9bfdcc848fea498756419a16a0-6a415f0fed566\" class=\"waveplayer loading wvpl-skin-w2-evolution wvpl-palette-800e3a14c86733ad9ccc96fd80850d88 wvpl-style-light wvpl-size-xs wvpl-shape-rounded \" data-limit=\"0\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-config_id=\"b52beb9bfdcc848fea498756419a16a0\" data-instance_id=\"b52beb9bfdcc848fea498756419a16a0-6a413754268c4\">\n\t<div class=\"wvpl-left-box\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/audiobg.png)\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-interface\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-volume-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-info\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-controls\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-prev wvpl-disabled\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-play\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-next wvpl-disabled\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-volume wvpl-volume_up\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-poster\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wvpl-right-box\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-overlay\">\n\t\t\t<svg>\n\t\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#waveform-animation\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"percentage\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-loading\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-loading-progress\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"message\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-position\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-duration\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-waveform\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-infobar\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-playing-info\"><div class=\"wvpl-infoblock\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wvpl-playlist\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-playlist-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Listen &amp; Play-Along<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"waveplayer-container\"><div id=\"waveplayer-2932bfc0a4d1713fbc8d369d9d7e4f2e-6a415f0fee8c5\" class=\"waveplayer loading wvpl-skin-w2-evolution wvpl-palette-800e3a14c86733ad9ccc96fd80850d88 wvpl-style-light wvpl-size-xs wvpl-shape-rounded \" data-limit=\"0\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-config_id=\"2932bfc0a4d1713fbc8d369d9d7e4f2e\" data-instance_id=\"2932bfc0a4d1713fbc8d369d9d7e4f2e-6a41375427c90\">\n\t<div class=\"wvpl-left-box\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/audiobg.png)\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-interface\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-volume-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-info\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-controls\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-prev wvpl-disabled\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-play\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-next wvpl-disabled\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-volume wvpl-volume_up\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-poster\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wvpl-right-box\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-overlay\">\n\t\t\t<svg>\n\t\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#waveform-animation\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"percentage\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-loading\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-loading-progress\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"message\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-position\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-duration\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-waveform\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-infobar\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-playing-info\"><div class=\"wvpl-infoblock\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wvpl-playlist\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-playlist-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16551 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-melody-1.png\" alt=\"Make You Feel My Love guitar tabs page 1\" width=\"779\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-melody-1.png 779w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-melody-1-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-melody-1-768x961.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16552 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-melody-2.png\" alt=\"Make You Feel My Love guitar tabs page 2\" width=\"779\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-melody-2.png 779w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-melody-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-melody-2-768x433.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Make You Feel My Love &#8211; Chords<\/h2>\n<p>The chords (more of a bassline really) are based on Ane Brun&#8217;s version of Make You Feel My Love and consist of a combination of bass notes and voice leading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Listen &amp; Play-Along<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"waveplayer-container\"><div id=\"waveplayer-b52beb9bfdcc848fea498756419a16a0-6a415f0fef61e\" class=\"waveplayer loading wvpl-skin-w2-evolution wvpl-palette-800e3a14c86733ad9ccc96fd80850d88 wvpl-style-light wvpl-size-xs wvpl-shape-rounded \" data-limit=\"0\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-config_id=\"b52beb9bfdcc848fea498756419a16a0\" data-instance_id=\"b52beb9bfdcc848fea498756419a16a0-6a413754268c4\">\n\t<div class=\"wvpl-left-box\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/audiobg.png)\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-interface\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-volume-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-info\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-controls\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-prev wvpl-disabled\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-play\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-next wvpl-disabled\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-icon wvpl-volume wvpl-volume_up\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-poster\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wvpl-right-box\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-overlay\">\n\t\t\t<svg>\n\t\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#waveform-animation\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"percentage\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-loading\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-loading-progress\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"message\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-position\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-duration\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-waveform\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-infobar\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-playing-info\"><div class=\"wvpl-infoblock\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wvpl-playlist\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wvpl-playlist-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16555 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-1.png\" alt=\"Make You Feel My Love Chords Page 1\" width=\"779\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-1.png 779w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-1-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-1-768x717.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16556 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-2.png\" alt=\"Make You Feel My Love Chords Page 2\" width=\"779\" height=\"911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-2.png 779w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-2-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-2-768x898.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16557 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-3.png\" alt=\"Make You Feel My Love Chords Page 3\" width=\"779\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-3.png 779w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-3-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/make-you-feel-my-love-chords-3-768x612.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/courses\/product\/jgo-download-pass\/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=make_you_feel_my_love_bottom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19706 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/download-pdf.png\" alt=\"Dowload PDF and backing tracks\" width=\"779\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/download-pdf.png 779w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/download-pdf-300x93.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/download-pdf-768x239.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make You Feel My Love was written by Bob Dylan for his album Time Out of Mind (1997). The song became a bit of a modern standard and was covered by more than 450 artists including Billy Joel, Garth Brooks, and Adele. Creating guitar instrumentals of pop songs is a good exercise in reharmonization, phrasing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iconic-guitar-parts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18757,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548\/revisions\/18757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}