All Of Me
Gerald Marks
Medium SwingC4/4
23
chords
12
different scales
6
tonal centres
First bars
Cmaj7Cmaj7E7E7
Twenty-three chords and six tonal centres in a tune everyone considers easy. Eleven of those twenty-three — nearly half — admit more than one reading.
The third bar is the test: a dominant that doesn't belong to the key turns up with no preparation at all, two bars in. It's the kind of chord where the wrong scale doesn't sound wrong enough for the student to notice — and sounds wrong enough for everyone listening.

