All The Things You Are

Jerome Kern

Medium Up SwingAb4/4

36

chords

21

different scales

12

tonal centres

First bars

F-7Bb-7Eb7Abmaj7

Twelve tonal centres in thirty-six chords. That's the highest rate of centre change in this library, and the reason this tune has been used as an improvisation test for decades.

It doesn't repeat: every eight bars it's somewhere else, and it comes home by a route nobody guesses the first time. Twenty-one different scales. Memorising won't get you through the bridge.

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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