Belleville – Django Reinhardt’s solo transcription

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Belleville is a quite famous song, so you might have tried before.

But it’s quite difficult , isn’t it? Because it’s fast, that’s why it’s difficult. That means, practice slower til you get it.

Once you get this song then speed up the tempo little by little.

By the way there is a place called ”Belleville” in paris and you see Django’s name and things related to him there. If you have a chance , go there and feel him. That made me feel very good somehow.

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Belleville chords

Let’s have a look at the transcription.

 

This is chord tabs.

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This progression stays to the end. If you are not familiar gypsy jazz chords , please have a look at this. Must-know gypsy jazz chords

Solo tabs

As I said , the transcription you see above is slower tempo than original. So you could play octaves.

belleville solo tabs , octaves

One thing I have tell you about gypsy jazz picking . The pic below is from the lesson video, and these arrows indicate down picking and up picking.

ジプシージャズ ピッキング方法

As you see, when you play new strings , you always start with down picking. Usually Always. This takes so much time to get used to this but this is an unique gypsy jazz technique . Be patient and practice.

I think , that’s it. There isn’t much to explain on this song.

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