All The Things You Are – A backing track with only drums and bass for 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 piece 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 phrases and improvise.

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 bass. The tempo is 140bpm.

The version with drums, bass, piano, and guitar can be found by clicking HERE.

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I hope you enjoy it, happy practicing!