A arpeggio & chord for gypsy jazz

The A arpeggio is built from the notes A (R), C# (3), E (5). On Haute Gitanerie you can see it across the whole guitar neck — contained position boxes, long diagonal forms, and its parent scale (A major) — with note names in English (C D E) or solfège (Do Ré Mi).

The A chord

The A chord voicing uses those same notes (A (R), C# (3), E (5)). Switch the fretboard to Chords to see gypsy-jazz voicings for A, or keep Arpeggio to practise the tones one at a time — same shape, two ways to hear it.

How to practise the A arpeggio

Start with a contained position box near the low strings, then move it up the neck fret by fret, or follow a diagonal form for a two-octave sweep in the manouche style. Every note is labelled with its interval (R, 3, 5), so you always know where the root, third, fifth sit.

Open the interactive fretboard →

Manouche alternatives

A bare major is rarely played straight in manouche — 6 or 6/9 sits better.

A · A6 · A6/9