Jazz Standard
All of Me chords
All of Me by Jazz Standard is an intermediate song in C, played with no capo. The whole sheet is 8 chords (C, E7, A7, Dm7, D7, G7, F, Fm7) across 4 sections: A1 → A2 → B → C. 5 of the 8 shapes are open chords. Shapes that use a barre: Dm7, F, Fm7. It sits at roughly 120 BPM.
By Chiye · Updated
Hardest change in the sheet: F → Fm7, once.
- Difficulty
- Intermediatebarre shape Dm7
- Key
- Cwith no capo
- Tempo
- 120BPM
- Tuning
- Standard (E A D G B E)low to high
- Chords
- 85 open, 3 with a barre
- Sections
- 4each with its own progression
Chords in All of Me
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 →
A14/4 · ♩=120
A24/4 · ♩=120
B4/4 · ♩=120
C4/4 · ♩=120
Printable one-page chord chart
How to play All of Me
This is the jazz standard, distinct from the John Legend song with the same title. The C-key arrangement links C with E7, A7, Dm7 and G7, then adds a passage through F and Fm7 before returning home.
E7 leads to A7, and A7 leads to Dm7. Learn the open shapes first: E7 keeps G# on the G string at fret 1, A7 leaves that string open, and Dm7 uses a small barre at fret 1 on the high strings. Each chord has a different bass, so let the picking thumb follow the written root.
F to Fm7 changes both the major third and the added seventh. Fm7 is F, Ab, C and Eb; it is not F major with a flat third added alongside A. In the full barre shapes, release the G string from fret 2 to fret 1 and the D string from fret 3 to fret 1.
Practise the dominant chain slowly, then isolate F to Fm7. Once both are clear, play the printed sections continuously with light comping and one chord per bar.
How to practise All of Me
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
C (x-3-2-0-1-0, beginner) → E7 (0-2-0-1-0-0, beginner) → A7 (x-0-2-0-2-0, beginner) → D7 (x-x-0-2-1-2, beginner) → G7 (3-2-0-0-0-1, beginner) → Dm7 (x-x-0-2-1-1, intermediate, needs a barre) → F (1-3-3-2-1-1, intermediate, needs a barre) → Fm7 (1-3-1-1-1-1, intermediate, needs a barre)
5 of the 8 shapes are open chords, so start there and leave Dm7 until the others change cleanly.
Drill the changes this sheet actually uses
A7 → Dm72×C → E72×Dm7 → G72×C → A71×
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
- CA1, A2, C
- E7A1, A2, B
- A7every section
- Dm7every section
- D7B
- G7B, C
- FC
- Fm7C
Climb the tempo ladder
Start at 72 BPM and move up only when a full pass is clean: 72 → 90 → 108 → 120 BPM. The tempo marked on this sheet is 120 BPM, and the last step is the one that always feels like a jump. Stay at 108 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 All of Me with a capo
This sheet needs no capo. 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 capoas written
C E7 A7 Dm7 D7 G7 F Fm7
5 of 8 stay open
Fret 1
B Eb7 Ab7 C#m7 C#7 F#7 E Em7
2 of 8 stay open
Fret 2
Bb D7 G7 Cm7 C7 F7 Eb Ebm7
3 of 8 stay open
Fret 3
A C#7 F#7 Bm7 B7 E7 D Dm7
5 of 8 stay open
Fret 4
Ab C7 F7 Bbm7 Bb7 Eb7 C# C#m7
1 of 8 stay open
Fret 5
G B7 E7 Am7 A7 D7 C Cm7
7 of 8 stay open
Fret 6
F# Bb7 Eb7 Abm7 Ab7 C#7 B Bm7
1 of 8 stay open
Fret 7
F A7 D7 Gm7 G7 C7 Bb Bbm7
4 of 8 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 All of Me clicks, these use the closest set of shapes, so the chords you just learned keep working.
More intermediate songs to learn after this one: Father and Son, Shallow, The One That Got Away, Treat You Better.
These chords across the songbookHow often each chord in All of Me 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.
420bars of this chord across the songbook
70songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 115×.
31bars of this chord across the songbook
10songs use this shape
Most often followed by A7, 4×.
49bars of this chord across the songbook
15songs use this shape
Most often followed by Dm7, 10×.
29bars of this chord across the songbook
6songs use this shape
Most often followed by G7, 13×.
45bars of this chord across the songbook
12songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 22×.
33bars of this chord across the songbook
13songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 11×.
114bars of this chord across the songbook
29songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 38×.
5bars of this chord across the songbook
3songs use this shape
Most often followed by Bb7, 3×.