All The Things You Are NO BASS – A great backing track for bassists to practice this important jazz standard. Have fun!

“All The Things You Are” is a song composed in 1939 by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. This theme was part of the 1939 musical “Very Warm for May” and the films “Broadway Rhythm” (1944) and “Till the Clouds Roll By” (1946).

This song has been performed by many iconic figures in world music, including Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Tony Martin, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Modern Jazz Quartet, Chet Baker, Art Pepper, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, Baden Powell, Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, Woody Shaw, Larry Coryell, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Brad Mehldau, Clifford Brown, Stan Kenton, Ella Fitzgerald, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, David Becker, Joe Diorio, and many others.

In this jazz backing track, the student will find many interesting situations to create bass lines.

The song starts with its first 8 bars featuring a cadence of VI-II-V-I-IV in Ab major and V-I in C major. There is a modulation in the next 8 bars with VI-II-V-I-IV in Eb major and V-I in G major. Then we have a chorus with II-V-I in G major and II-V-I in E major, ending with an altered chord that prepares the entry of the first VI-II-V-I-IV sequence in Ab major, followed by the chords Dbm7, Cm7, and Bdim7, and concluding with II-V-I in Ab major.

This backing track is composed of drums and piano. The tempo is 140bpm.

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I hope you enjoy it, happy practicing!