Haute Gitanerie

Tears — chords & grille (gypsy jazz)

Tears by Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli — key of C (manouche), form A A B A C. 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.

Tears chords — the grille

A : | Cm Cm/E♭ | Dø G7 | Cm Cm/E♭ | Dø G7 | A7/C# | Dm/C | Bø | Cm/B♭ | Aø | G7 | A♭/G | Cm G7 |
B : | C Em | Dm7 G7 | C Em | Dm7 G7 | C7/G C7 | F | D7 | D♭7 | C Em | Dm7 G7 | C Em | Dm7 G7 | C7/G C7 | F | A♭7 G7 | C |
C : | Cm Cm/E♭ | D♭7 | Cm Cm/E♭ | D♭7 | G7 | Cm |

Chords used

Cm · · G7 · A7/C# · Dm/C · · · A♭/G · C · Em · Dm7 · C7/G · F · D7 · D♭7 · A♭7

Play along

Open the interactive grille to play Tears 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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