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.

The full analysis of this song

  • The scale for every chord
  • The triads
  • The arpeggio
  • The reason behind the choice
  • The player in all 12 keys
  • Thiago's commentary
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