Blues, jazz, soul and funk

Gypsy jazz on guitar: chords and rhythm.

Django Reinhardt's gypsy jazz is played with "la pompe": a chord on every beat, the first and third longer, the second and fourth cut short, at a fast swinging tempo. The Minor Swing progression, A minor, D minor, E7, is its most played example.

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The progression

Pick a key: the charts change right below. "Listen" plays the progression with its rhythm; a click on a chord plays it alone, the arrow opens its page.

Key

In A minor · 168 BPM
  • Am
    A minor×231
  • Dm
    D minor××231
  • E7
    E 721

The rhythm

One bar of the strumming hand, beat by beat. While it plays, the stroke being played lights up.

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2
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3
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4
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  • strum down
  • down, cut short

From the same world

The music born of the African American tradition: the blues' seventh, the rich chords of jazz and soul, the strumming hand of funk, and gypsy jazz's la pompe.