Indifférence — chords & grille (gypsy jazz)
Indifférence by Tony Murena & Joseph Colombo — key of E (manouche), form A A B A TRIO 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
A valse musette masterpiece composed in 1942 by accordionist Tony Murena with Joseph Colombo — a Paris café-ball classic that crossed into gypsy jazz through Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli.
The sound — a swirling waltz in E minor, driven by the tension of B7 pulling home and a bright turn to the relative G major in the middle before the minor returns.
Practising it — lock the 3/4 pulse first. Drill the E harmonic minor scale and the Em, B7 and Am arpeggios; target D♯ on the B7 resolving to E. Build speed only once the waltz lilt is steady.
Indifférence chords — the grille
A : | Em | Em | Em | Em | Em | Em | B7 | B7 | B7 | B7 | B7 | B7 | B7 | B7 | Em | Em | Em | Em | Em | Em | E7 | E7 | Am | Am | Am | F7 | Em | Em | F#7 | B7 | Em | Em |
B : | B7 | B7 | Em | Em | B7 | B7 | Em | Em | B7 | B7 | Em | Em | B7 | B7 | Em | Em |
TRIO : | G | G | B7 | B7 | E7 | E7 | Am | Am | D7 | D7 | G | G | F#7 | F#7 | B7 | B7 | G | G | B7 | B7 | E7 | E7 | Am | Am | C | C#° | G | E7 | A7 | D7 | G | B7 |
Chords used
Em · B7 · E7 · Am · F7 · F#7 · G · D7 · C · C#° · A7
Videos — Indifférence
Watch it played
- A solo over a backing — Guitare Improvisation
- Live on Dutch TV — Angelo Debarre
- Studio version — Les Doigts de l'Homme
- Indifference – Live Radio Performance | Catalunya Música — Marta Sierra
Play along
Open the interactive grille for Indifférence: 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.