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 and Dm7 is the one that needs a barre. 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, four beats to the bar: the shape lands on beat one and the dots mark the beats after it, so you can see where the change falls without any lyrics. Where a section has no strumming pattern written, play one chord per bar. Tap a bar to hear it.
Lyrics are not reproduced for this song: they are still in copyright and this site has no licence to publish them. The chords, structure, strumming and sing-along timing are all here. Songs whose words are public domain →
A1♩=120
A2♩=120
B♩=120
C♩=120
Printable one-page chord chart
How to play All of Me
All of Me in C is the ideal first jazz standard on guitar because the chords are shapes you already know, rearranged into a cycle of fifths. The first section gives each chord a full bar: C, then E7, A7 and Dm7, each held long enough that you can hear how one pulls into the next. Play it as a chain rather than four separate decisions and your hand simply follows the line downward.
The moment that makes the tune is in the C section: F, then Fm7, then home to C. That major-to-minor slide is the whole character of the song, and it is one finger moving on the top strings — Fm7 is F with a flattened third added, not a new grip. In the B section the same descending idea appears again as D7 to Dm7 to G7, which lifts a dominant chord and drops it back to minor.
Play at 90 BPM and loop C to E7 until it is instant, then extend to the full four-bar descent. Add the C section only after that, because F to Fm7 is easy to hear and surprisingly easy to fumble. Keep the right hand light and staccato on beats two and four, and sing the root of each chord as you play: hearing the cycle of fifths is what makes this standard stick.
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 recorded speed.
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 recorded feel is around 120 BPM, and the last step is the one that always feels like a jump. Stay at 108 for longer than feels necessary.
Every section here uses the same set of shapes, so there is no section to single out. Whatever you can play once, you can play all the way through.
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: Hotel California, Hey Jude, Wish You Were Here, The Weight.
These chords across the songbookHow often each chord in All of Me turns up across all 80 songs on this site, and what it most often moves to next. The counts come from the sheet library itself, not from theory.
363bars of this chord across the songbook
54songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 115×.
29bars of this chord across the songbook
9songs use this shape
Most often followed by A7, 4×.
47bars of this chord across the songbook
14songs 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×.
44bars of this chord across the songbook
12songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 20×.
33bars of this chord across the songbook
13songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 11×.
106bars of this chord across the songbook
24songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 31×.
5bars of this chord across the songbook
3songs use this shape
Most often followed by Bb7, 3×.