Am arpeggio & chord for gypsy jazz

The Am 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 harmonic minor) — with note names in English (C D E) or solfège (Do Ré Mi).

The Am chord

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

How to practise the Am 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.

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Manouche alternatives

The minor line: over a held minor, walk the inner voice down — m → m△7 → m7 → m6. The manouche sound.

Am · AmΔ · Am7 · Am6