Jason Mraz
I'm Yours chords
I'm Yours by Jason Mraz is a beginner song in C, played with no capo. The whole sheet is 6 chords (C, G, Am, F, G/B, D7) across 4 sections: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Bridge. 5 of the 6 shapes are open chords and F is the one that needs a barre. It sits at roughly 76 BPM.
By Chiye · Updated
Hardest change in the sheet: Am → F, 5 times.
- Difficulty
- Beginnerbarre shape F
- Key
- Cwith no capo
- Tempo
- 76BPM
- Tuning
- Standard (E A D G B E)low to high
- Chords
- 65 open, 1 with a barre
- Sections
- 4each with its own progression
Chords in I'm Yours
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 →
Intro♩=76
Verse♩=76
Chorus♩=76
Bridge♩=76
Printable one-page chord chart
How to play I'm Yours
I’m Yours is one of the easiest four-chord songs in the modern repertoire, and the reason it sounds relaxed is the offbeat. Play C, G, Am, F in that order forever. One warning about the original: the guitar on the record is tuned a half step down, so if you want to play along with the track you either detune or put a capo on fret 1. In standard tuning the shapes still work perfectly well on their own.
Strum with a bounced feel rather than even eighths — think reggae: a light downstroke, a short muted upstroke, and let the upstrokes be quieter than the downs. Rest the side of your strumming hand near the bridge to mute the bass strings on upstrokes. That single habit is the difference between a stiff four-chord run-through and something that sounds like the record.
Add the bridge last, because it is the only place the harmony moves: G/B gives you a walking bass line under the C to Am change, and the D7 pulls back to the tonic. Practise at 65 BPM with a metronome, four bars at a time, counting out loud so the bounce never flattens into even eighths. The tempo is a half-time feel, so 76 on the metronome is the whole song.
How to practise I'm Yours
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) → G (3-2-0-0-0-3, beginner) → Am (x-0-2-2-1-0, beginner) → G/B (x-2-0-0-3-3, beginner) → D7 (x-x-0-2-1-2, beginner) → F (1-3-3-2-1-1, intermediate, needs a barre)
5 of the 6 shapes are open chords, so start there and leave F until the others change cleanly.
Drill the changes this sheet actually uses
C → G6×Am → F5×G → Am5×Am → G1×
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
- Cevery section
- Gevery section
- Amevery section
- Fevery section
- G/BBridge
- D7Bridge
Climb the tempo ladder
Start at 46 BPM and move up only when a full pass is clean: 46 → 57 → 68 → 76 BPM. The recorded feel is around 76 BPM, and the last step is the one that always feels like a jump. Stay at 68 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 I'm Yours 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 G Am F G/B D7
5 of 6 stay open
Fret 1
B F# Abm E F#* C#7
1 of 6 stay open
Fret 2
Bb F Gm Eb F/A C7
2 of 6 stay open
Fret 3
A E F#m D E* B7
5 of 6 stay open
Fret 4
Ab Eb Fm C# Eb* Bb7
no open shapes left, all barre
Fret 5
G D Em C D* A7
6 of 6 stay open
Fret 6
F# C# Ebm B C#* Ab7
no open shapes left, all barre
Fret 7
F C Dm Bb C/E G7
4 of 6 stay open
* 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 I'm Yours clicks, these use the closest set of shapes, so the chords you just learned keep working.
More beginner songs to learn after this one: Wonderwall, Let It Be, Creep, Oh! Susanna.
These chords across the songbookHow often each chord in I'm Yours 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×.
418bars of this chord across the songbook
59songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 80×.
116bars of this chord across the songbook
26songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 27×.
106bars of this chord across the songbook
24songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 31×.
7bars of this chord across the songbook
2songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 4×.
44bars of this chord across the songbook
12songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 20×.