Le Petit Bal de la marine — chords & grille (gypsy jazz)
Le Petit Bal de la marine by Jean-Pierre Mottier & François Deguelt — key of A (musette), form Intro A A2 B A2. 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.
Le Petit Bal de la marine chords — the grille
Intro : | Am | Am | F | F | E7 | E7 | Am | Am |
A : | Am | Am | Am | Am | Am | Am | Dm | Dm | Dm | Dm | Am | Am | B7 | B7 | E7 | E7 |
A2 : | Am | Am | Am | Am | Am | Am | Dm | Dm | Dm | Dm | Am | Am | B7 | E7 | Am | Am |
B : | AΔ | AΔ | AΔ | AΔ | AΔ | AΔ | F#7 | F#7 | Bm7 | Dm6 | AΔ | F#m7 | Bm7 | E7 | Am | Am |
Chords used
Am · F · E7 · Dm · B7 · AΔ · F#7 · Bm7 · Dm6 · F#m7
Play along
Open the interactive grille to play Le Petit Bal de la marine with the backing track (beta), transpose it, and slow it down — a practice backing to blow over, right in the browser, free.