Eagles
Peaceful Easy Feeling chords
Peaceful Easy Feeling by Eagles is a beginner song in E, played with a capo on fret 2. The whole sheet is 5 chords (D, Dsus4, G, A7, Em) across 3 sections: Intro → Verse ×2 → Chorus. 4 of the 5 shapes are open chords. Shapes that use a barre: Dsus4. It sits at roughly 143 BPM.
By Chiye · Updated
Hardest change in the sheet: D → Dsus4, 5 times.
- Difficulty
- Beginnerbarre shape Dsus4
- Key
- Ewith a capo on fret 2
- Tempo
- 143BPM
- Tuning
- Standard (E A D G B E)low to high
- Chords
- 54 open, 1 with a barre
- Sections
- 3each with its own progression
Chords in Peaceful Easy Feeling
Frets read low E to high E, x means leave that string out.
Chord sheet
One chord per bar in this practice sheet. Follow the time signature shown beside each section; dots mark the remaining counts in the bar. Tap a bar to hear its chord, or loop the section to practise the changes.
Chord accompaniment only. Follow the section notes for this arrangement’s timing. Songs whose words are public domain →
Intro4/4 · ♩=143
Verse× 2 · 4/4 · ♩=143
Chorus4/4 · ♩=143
Printable one-page chord chart
How to play Peaceful Easy Feeling
Capo on fret 2 and every chord in the song is an open shape: D, Dsus4, G, A7 and Em. That is what makes this the easiest Eagles song to sing and play at the same time — the hand barely moves, and the capo puts the whole thing in the same key as the record. The verse drifts between D and G before turning around with A7, and the chorus starts on A7 and works its way back down to D. If you would rather not use a capo at all, the same song can be played with E, A and B7 shapes; it sounds identical, just higher up the neck.
The intro and the chorus tag are built on the Dsus4, and it is the easiest ornament in the book: hold D, lift the middle finger off the top E string and drop the little finger onto that string at fret 3. Do it once per bar and the song immediately sounds like the record. For A7, take the A shape and simply lift the middle finger off the G string. The only real left-hand work is the G to Em change in the chorus, where you can keep your index finger on the A string at fret 2 — that note belongs to both chords — and move two fingers around it.
Practise at 110 BPM with two bars per chord, which is slow enough to hear whether the Dsus4 is ringing clearly or being muffled by a lazy little finger. Loop the chorus twenty times, since it holds every change in the song, and then play the intro on its own as an instrumental. When both are clean, push towards the record’s tempo and concentrate on keeping the strum gentle: this is a song about space, and hitting all six strings hard ruins it.
How to practise Peaceful Easy Feeling
Four steps computed from this sheet: the order the shapes are easiest to learn in, the changes that really occur in the progressions above, where each chord turns up, and the tempo ladder up to the speed marked here.
Learn the shapes easiest first
D (x-x-0-2-3-2, beginner) → G (3-2-0-0-0-3, beginner) → A7 (x-0-2-0-2-0, beginner) → Em (0-2-2-0-0-0, beginner) → Dsus4 (x-x-0-2-3-3, intermediate, needs a barre)
4 of the 5 shapes are open chords, so start there and leave Dsus4 until the others change cleanly.
Drill the changes this sheet actually uses
D → Dsus45×Dsus4 → D4×D → G3×G → A72×
These counts come from the progressions on this page, so they are the changes you will actually play, not a generic list of pairs to practise.
Know where each chord turns up
- Devery section
- Dsus4Intro, Chorus
- GVerse, Chorus
- A7Verse, Chorus
- EmChorus
Climb the tempo ladder
Start at 86 BPM and move up only when a full pass is clean: 86 → 107 → 129 → 143 BPM. The tempo marked on this sheet is 143 BPM, and the last step is the one that always feels like a jump. Stay at 129 for longer than feels necessary.
Practise each section's chord changes slowly, then play the sheet through at a steady tempo without pausing between sections.
Playing Peaceful Easy Feeling with a capo
This sheet is written with a capo on fret 2. Each card shows what you would finger at that capo position so the song still sounds exactly as written. Useful when the shapes above are awkward, or when you want to sing it higher without learning new chords.
No capo
E Esus4 A B7 F#m
4 of 5 stay open
Fret 1
Eb Ebsus4 Ab Bb7 Fm
no open shapes left, all barre
Fret 2as written
D Dsus4 G A7 Em
4 of 5 stay open
Fret 3
C# C#sus4 F# Ab7 Ebm
no open shapes left, all barre
Fret 4
C Csus4 F G7 Dm
3 of 5 stay open
Fret 5
B Bsus4 E F#7 C#m
1 of 5 stay open
Fret 6
Bb Bbsus4 Eb F7 Cm
no open shapes left, all barre
Fret 7
A Asus4 D E7 Bm
4 of 5 stay open
Working out a different key? The capo calculatordoes the same arithmetic for any chord set.
More songs built on the same chords
If Peaceful Easy Feeling clicks, these use the closest set of shapes, so the chords you just learned keep working.
More beginner songs to learn after this one: Sweater Weather, The Scientist, 505, Linger.
These chords across the songbookHow often each chord in Peaceful Easy Feeling turns up across all 104 songs on this site, and what it most often moves to next. The counts come from the sheet library itself, not from theory.
323bars of this chord across the songbook
58songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 52×.
17bars of this chord across the songbook
6songs use this shape
Most often followed by D, 5×.
509bars of this chord across the songbook
77songs use this shape
Most often followed by D, 89×.
49bars of this chord across the songbook
15songs use this shape
Most often followed by Dm7, 10×.
155bars of this chord across the songbook
43songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 27×.