John Legend
All of Me (John Legend) chords
All of Me (John Legend) by John Legend is a beginner song in Ab, played with a capo on fret 1. The whole sheet is 7 chords (Em, C, G, D, D/F#, Cmaj7, Dsus4) across 3 sections: Intro ×2 → Verse ×2 → Chorus ×2. 6 of the 7 shapes are open chords and Dsus4 is the one that needs a barre. It sits at roughly 63 BPM.
By Chiye · Updated
Hardest change in the sheet: C → Dsus4, once.
- Difficulty
- Beginnerbarre shape Dsus4
- Key
- Abwith a capo on fret 1
- Tempo
- 63BPM
- Tuning
- Standard (E A D G B E)low to high
- Chords
- 76 open, 1 with a barre
- Sections
- 3each with its own progression
Chords in All of Me (John Legend)
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.
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 →
Intro× 2 · 4/4 · ♩=63
Verse× 2 · 4/4 · ♩=63
Chorus× 2 · 4/4 · ♩=63
Printable one-page chord chart
How to play All of Me (John Legend)
A capo at fret 1 turns the open Em, C, G and D shapes into Fm, Db, Ab and Eb. This arrangement uses those four as its core, with Cmaj7, D/F# and Dsus4 for additional colour. Learn the plain loop before adding the variations.
The sounding Fm, Db, Ab and Eb chords form vi–IV–I–V in Ab major. The verse replaces C with Cmaj7, while the chorus has three different rows. Read those rows in order rather than treating every section as an identical four-bar loop.
For Em to C, the D-string fret 2 can remain held if your fingering allows. Move the A-string note from fret 2 to 3 and add the B-string fret 1. D/F# adds F# to the bass of D, and Dsus4 raises the high E string from fret 2 to 3 before resolving back to D.
Use a comfortable tempo and prepare each next grip during the preceding bar; the audible chord change should still land on the printed downbeat. Practise the chorus rows separately before connecting the section. This is the John Legend song; the same-name jazz standard has its own chart.
How to practise All of Me (John Legend)
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
Em (0-2-2-0-0-0, beginner) → C (x-3-2-0-1-0, beginner) → G (3-2-0-0-0-3, beginner) → D (x-x-0-2-3-2, beginner) → D/F# (2-x-0-2-3-2, beginner) → Cmaj7 (x-3-2-0-0-0, beginner) → Dsus4 (x-x-0-2-3-3, intermediate, needs a barre)
6 of the 7 shapes are open chords, so start there and leave Dsus4 until the others change cleanly.
Drill the changes this sheet actually uses
Em → C4×C → G3×G → D3×C → Dsus41×
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
- Emevery section
- CIntro, Chorus
- Gevery section
- Devery section
- D/F#Chorus
- Cmaj7Verse
- Dsus4Chorus
Climb the tempo ladder
Start at 38 BPM and move up only when a full pass is clean: 38 → 47 → 57 → 63 BPM. The recorded feel is around 63 BPM, and the last step is the one that always feels like a jump. Stay at 57 for longer than feels necessary.
The section to leave until last is Chorus (12 bars in this sheet).
Playing All of Me (John Legend) with a capo
This sheet is written with a capo on fret 1. 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 capo
Fm C# Ab Eb Eb* C#maj7 Ebsus4
no open shapes left, all barre
Fret 1as written
Em C G D D/F# Cmaj7 Dsus4
6 of 7 stay open
Fret 2
Ebm B F# C# C#* Bmaj7 C#sus4
no open shapes left, all barre
Fret 3
Dm Bb F C C/E Bbmaj7 Csus4
4 of 7 stay open
Fret 4
C#m A E B B* Amaj7 Bsus4
3 of 7 stay open
Fret 5
Cm Ab Eb Bb Bb* Abmaj7 Bbsus4
no open shapes left, all barre
Fret 6
Bm G D A A* Gmaj7 Asus4
6 of 7 stay open
Fret 7
Bbm F# C# Ab Ab* F#maj7 Absus4
no open shapes left, all barre
* this position has no separate fingering for a bass-note inversion in our chord library, so the parent chord is shown. Play that shape and the inversion note is an optional bass addition.
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 (John Legend) clicks, these use the closest set of shapes, so the chords you just learned keep working.
More beginner songs to learn after this one: The Scientist, 505, Linger, Teardrops on My Guitar.
These chords across the songbookHow often each chord in All of Me (John Legend) turns up across all 90 songs on this site, and what it most often moves to next. The counts come from the sheet library itself, not from theory.
129bars of this chord across the songbook
34songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 30×.
384bars of this chord across the songbook
59songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 122×.
458bars of this chord across the songbook
67songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 80×.
274bars of this chord across the songbook
51songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 41×.
1bars of this chord across the songbook
1songs use this shape
Nothing else follows it in our sheet library.
11bars of this chord across the songbook
5songs use this shape
Most often followed by C7, 2×.
15bars of this chord across the songbook
5songs use this shape
Most often followed by D, 5×.