Haute Gitanerie

It Had to Be You — chords & grille (gypsy jazz)

It Had to Be You by Isham Jones & Gus Kahn — key of F (manouche), 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.

It Had to Be You chords — the grille

A : | F | F | D7 | D7 | G7 | G7 | G7 | G7 | C7 | C7 C#° | Dm | Dm | G7 | G7 | C7 | C7 | F | F | D7 | D7 | G7 | G7 | G7 | G7 F7 | B♭ | B♭m | F A7♭9 | Dm A♭° | C7 F#° | Gm C7 | F B♭m | F |

Chords used

F · D7 · G7 · C7 · C#° · Dm · F7 · B♭ · B♭m · A7♭9 · A♭° · F#° · Gm

Play along

Open the interactive grille to play It Had to Be You with the backing track (beta), transpose it, and slow it down — a practice backing to blow over, right in the browser, free.

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