I've Had My Moments — chords & grille (gypsy jazz)
I've Had My Moments by Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn — key of G (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.
About
A 1934 song by Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn from the MGM film Hollywood Party — but manouche players know it through Django Reinhardt and the Quintette du Hot Club de France, who recorded it in 1935.
The sound — sunny G major with a surprise: an E♭7 sliding in from outside the key, plus a bright A7 secondary dominant lifting toward D7.
Practising it — anchor the G major and its ii–V (Am–D7), then work the chromatic E♭7 as a passing colour. Target the A7 resolving into D7. Medium swing, relaxed.
I've Had My Moments chords — the grille
A : | G | E♭7 | Am | D7 | G | E♭7 | Am | D7 | G7 | G7 | C | C | A7 | A7 | D7 | D7 | G | E♭7 | Am | D7 | G | E♭7 | Am | D7 | G7 | G7 | C | C | A7 | D7 | G | G |
Chords used
G · E♭7 · Am · D7 · G7 · C · A7
Play along
Open the interactive grille for I've Had My Moments: 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.