Exactly Like You — chords & grille (gypsy jazz)
Exactly Like You by Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields — key of C (swing), form 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.
About
Music by Jimmy McHugh, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, published in 1930 and introduced in Lew Leslie's International Revue. A breezy swing standard cut by everyone from Louis Armstrong on down.
The sound — bright C major with an easy lilt. It leans on secondary dominants (D7 pulling to G7) and borrows a minor subdominant colour with Fm6, a favourite manouche shade.
Practising it — set a relaxed pompe and outline each ii-V. Target the note that changes when F turns to Fm6 (A down to A♭) — that half-step is the whole charm of the tune.
Exactly Like You chords — the grille
A : | C | C | D7 | D7 | G7 | G7 | C | Dm G7 | C | C | D7 | D7 | G7 | G7 | C | C7 | F | Fm B♭7 | C | Am6 | Dm | Fm6 G7 | Em E♭° | Dm G7 | C | C | D7 | D7 | G7 | G7 | C | C |
Chords used
C · D7 · G7 · Dm · C7 · F · Fm · B♭7 · Am6 · Fm6 · Em · E♭°
Play along
Open the interactive grille for Exactly Like You: loop any section, transpose to any key, set the tempo, and play over a rhythm accompaniment — with a real recorded pompe on featured tunes. In the browser, free.