All The Things You Are
Written for the musical Very Warm for May (1939).
PUBLISHED: Oct 1, 2011 • UPDATED: Dec 9, 2019 • VIEWS: 33 • LESSON CODE: UL501 •
Instruments: leadsheet playalong Subjects: jazz • repertoire • standard
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All The Things You Are is a song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was written for the musical Very Warm for May (1939), where it was introduced by Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, and Ralph Stuart. It was later featured in the film Broadway Rhythm (1944), and was performed during the opening credits and as a recurring theme for the romantic comedy A Letter for Evie (1945). The song ranked in the top five of the Record Buying Guide of Billboard, a pre-retail listing which surveyed primarily the jukebox industry. Recordings by Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, and Frankie Masters propelled the song during its initial popularity.
An example of how to play through the chords of All The Things You Are on a "C" tuned ukulele is available in my book Exploring Jazz Chords on Ukulele
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Performance Notes for All the Things You Are
Here's how I remember the melody of All the Things You Are:
- All the Things You Are moves through several keys with the chords following a cycle of fourths in two sections. Fm7, Bbm7, Eb7, Abmaj7, Dbmaj7
- The Dbmaj7 goes up a half step to Dm which is a II V I of the next key, C major
- The Cmaj7 turns into Cm7 and a cycle of fourths follows, an one and on.
Related Links
- Wikipia: All the Things You Are - Jazz Standards
- jazzstandards.com listing for: All The Things You Are
All The Things You Are Playalong Track with Guitar taking the melody
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All The Things You Are - Lead Sheet
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All The Things You Are - MP3 play-along track
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Core Chords - The Big Six - Building a Solid Chord Foundation • Updated: Jan 23, 2020
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The Big Six chords include: Seventh 7, Major Seventh maj7, Minor Seventh m7, Half Diminished Seventh or Minor Seven Flat Five diminished 7 m7b5, Diminished Seventh o7 and Augmented Seventh +7. These six chords form a core set of chords.
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The six essential scales are: Blues, Major Pentatonic, Mixolydian, Dorian, Aeolian, and Ionian. From the six essential scales, you can get through a wide variety of traditional and contemporary music.
A scale is simply a collection of pitches or notes, not really a "this is a Jazz scale", "this is a Blues" or "this is a Rock scale". It's how a scale is used that really matters not its name.
Most music starts with a scale. The melody, chords, licks and riffs all can be related back to a particular scale or scales.
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All The Things You Are - Lead Sheet
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Harmonic Analysis for Scale and Chord Selection
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Core Ukulele Chords - The Big Six
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Core Chords for Ukulele, The Big Six - From four F7 chord voicings or shapes, your can build your massive 4-part, a.k.a., “jazz” chord vocabulary. Beyond basic open position chords, basic movable form chords and a core set of 4-part chords. There are just too many chords shapes too memorize. Learning the principles of how chords are constructed and the ukulele fingerboard are the way to go. Then you can create more advanced chords like 9#11, 7#5-9, 13b5, 7+9 on the fly as needed.
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