Belleville — chords & grille (gypsy jazz)
Belleville by Django Reinhardt — key of D (manouche), form A A B A. Below is the full chord grid; on Haute Gitanerie you can play along with a scrolling chord ribbon, transpose to any key, set the tempo, and switch on a rhythm backing (la pompe) to practise your solos over the changes.
Belleville chords — the grille
A : | D F° | Em A7 | D F° | Em A7 | D F° | Em A7 | D | D |
B : | Gm | Gm | D | D | F# | G° | A♭m C#7 | F# A7 |
Chords used
D · F° · Em · A7 · Gm · F# · G° · A♭m · C#7
Play along
Open the interactive grille to play Belleville with the backing track (beta), transpose it, and slow it down — a practice backing to blow over, right in the browser, free.