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• Jack western Massachusetts✭✭✭✭

  May 2007 Posts: 1,752

  There's a bare bones version here:
  
  
  Do I need to mention this isn't a 'gypsy jazz' version?
  
  best,
  Jack.
• HCPhilly Phila. PA✭✭✭✭

  May 2007 Posts: 147

  Here's some basic changes for "Swanee."
  [ I of course, can't think of this song without remembering the Honeymooners episode where Ralph Kramden is a contestant
  on the show "Name That Tune,"]
  
  Well uh Django, Stephane and posse start out in "F" whereupon dey uh commence
  to uh modulatin,' eventually manage to return to F major, and play a nice
  on-the-spot-sounding-shout-chorus.
  [Beginners might get something out of figuring out the modulations,
  and also the pivot chord for the modulations. [ I left out the passing chords, Django's cool bass notes, etc.]
  
  F F7 Bb Bdim F F G7 C7
  //// //// //// //// //// //// //// ////
  
  
  F F7 Bb Bdim F C 7 F C7 F
  //// //// //// //// //// //// // // ////
  
  C7 F F7 Bb Bdim F C7
  //// //// //// //// //// // // //// ////
  
  
  F F7 Bb Bdim F C7 F F6
  //// //// //// //// //// //// //// ////
  
  Good luck!
• HCPhilly Phila. PA✭✭✭✭

  May 2007 Posts: 147

  It looks like the chords got compressed when they posted to the site.
  I'll try it again later.
  B
• Ampsmasher Oakland, California✭✭✭ Christelle Caillot

  May 2007 Posts: 51

  What are the cool passing chords?
• Jack western Massachusetts✭✭✭✭

  May 2007 Posts: 1,752

  This should be a little closer to what Barry was putting up:
  

  F     F7     Bb    Bdim   F       F     G7    C7
  ////  ////   ////  ////  ////   ////   ////   ////
  
  
  F     F7     Bb    Bdim   F      C 7   F  C7   F
  ////  ////   ////   ////  ////   ////   // //    ////
  
  C7           F      F7       Bb     Bdim        F      C7
  ////  ////   ////   ////     ////   // //       ////   ////
  
  
  F     F7     Bb    Bdim   F      C7    F       F6
  ////  ////   ////   ////  ////   ////   ////   ////
  

  
  best,
  Jack.