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A free interactive tool for gypsy jazz — arpeggios, chords, play-along standards
axel
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Hello everyone, long-time lurker here. I'm a software engineer learning gypsy jazz, and I built a free tool to help me practice. Sharing it in case it's useful to others.
Haute Gitanerie https://www.haute-gitanerie.com. It's free, no signup, no ads, works offline, bilingual EN/FR:
- Arpeggios in any key across the whole neck — compact position boxes or the long diagonal manouche forms.
- Compare two arpeggios: overlay them to see the shared tones between chords (useful for lines over changes).
- Real gypsy chord voicings (m6, 6/9, dim, m7b5, and so on).
- The standards with a metronome and play-along: a chord ribbon that scrolls with the tune, transpose to any key, adjust the tempo.
- On the neck view you see the current and next chord, and can overlay their arpeggios.
- New: you can build your own tune charts and submit them to add to the library.
It is a living project. A few diagonal fingerings are still marked work-in-progress while I confirm the idiomatic shapes (i'm quite a beginner in the style), and the repertoire is small but growing. I would genuinely value corrections from players who know more than I do.
I am not selling anything; Except my socials (insta / youtube) where i share mostly other musicians playing. I am a player/builder doing this for the love of it. Feedback, wrong shapes, tunes you would like added : all very welcome. Thanks, and thanks for this forum, it has been a huge resource.
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Update:
Quick fix went out 🙌 If you sent a musician profile or feedback recently and didn't hear back, it wasn't you — a submission bug ate it. Just resend, it works now. Merci! 🙏
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Interesting. I'll check it out!
Thanks, any feedback welcome 💃 !
Very cool
The link does not work because the parenthesis at the end of the link is included.
This should work:
https://www.haute-gitanerie.com
Oh thanks reporting that !!
Very cool! Thanks.
Glad you have a look and even better if it's useful, thanks passing by !
Quick fix went out 🙌 If you sent a musician profile or feedback recently and didn't hear back, it wasn't you — a submission bug ate it. Just resend, it works now. Merci! 🙏
Quick update since July. shipped a bunch, a lot of it from feedback here (thanks!):
• Chord grids now follow the reference notation exactly, no forced enrichment, voice it your own way.
• more than 60 tunes added
• "Play it the manouche way": each chord shows its voicing family + the moves (the minor line m → m△7 → m7 → m6, ♭9/dim on dominants), and a minor now defaults to its m6 voicing (the real sound) while the chart still reads "Am".
• Every voicing shows what's in the bass (root / 3rd / 5th…) — handy for spotting inversions and making the low strings growl.
• Find tunes by the chords you know: tick the families, tunes rank by how few new shapes you'd need.
• Favourites + more standards.
Still free, no login, EN/FR, works offline. Always keen on feedback about the chord choices, that's what drives it forward.
More to come !
"Play it the manouche way": ...and a minor now defaults to its m6 voicing (the real sound) while the chart still reads "Am".
Tcha might have a thing to say about that! ;-)