E arpeggio & chord for gypsy jazz

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

The E chord

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

How to practise the E 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

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

E · E6 · E6/9