Haute Gitanerie

C7♯5 arpeggio & chord for gypsy jazz

The C7♯5 arpeggio is built from the notes C (R), E (3), A♭ (♭6), B♭ (♭7). On Haute Gitanerie you can see it across the whole guitar neck — contained position boxes, long diagonal forms, and its parent scale (C whole tone) — with note names in English (C D E) or solfège (Do Ré Mi).

The C7♯5 chord

The C7♯5 chord voicing uses those same notes (C (R), E (3), A♭ (♭6), B♭ (♭7)). Switch the fretboard to Chords to see gypsy-jazz voicings for C7♯5, or keep Arpeggio to practise the tones one at a time — same shape, two ways to hear it.

How to practise the C7♯5 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, ♭6, ♭7), so you always know where the root, third, fifth sit.

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