Time on My Hands: chords & grille (gypsy jazz)
Time on My Hands by Vincent Youmans & Mack Gordon, key of F (ballade), 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
Time on My Hands is a 1930 song by Vincent Youmans (lyrics by Harold Adamson and Mack Gordon), introduced in the Broadway musical Smiles and later a jazz standard recorded by Billie Holiday and others.
The sound: a tender F major ballad that wanders through rich colours: a D7 to G minor, an augmented dominant (D+7) and a minor-6 tint that lend it a warm, nostalgic ache.
Practising it: treat it as a slow ballad and voice-lead smoothly. Work the F major scale, arpeggiate the secondary dominants (A7, D7, G7), and savour the augmented and minor-6 colours instead of running past them.
Time on My Hands chords: the grille
A : | F | F | E7 | E7 | Gm | Gm | C7 Gm | C7 | F | F | E7 | E7 | Gm | Gm | A7 | A7 | D7♯5 | D7♯5 | G7 | Gm C7 | F Dm | G7 | Gm | C7 | F | F | Cm6 | D7♯5 | G7 | Gm C7 | F | F |
Chords used
F · E7 · Gm · C7 · A7 · D7♯5 · G7 · Dm · Cm6
Play along
Open the interactive grille for Time on My Hands: 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.