GIVAN Reinhardt Formulas

Django Reinhardts Melodic Formulas (Licks)
Here are forty-one melodic formulas that comprise part of Django Reinhardts musical
vocabulary. This isnt an exhaustive listthere are more. Its just some of the common ones.
A lot more information about these formulas, including several complete solo transcriptions
illustrating their use, can be found in the third chapter of my book, The Music of Django
Reinhardt (University of Michigan Press, 2010). The book doesnt include tablature notation.
For quite a few of the listed formulas, Ive shown more than one variant (for example, the first
one shows four variants: F1a, F1b, F1c, and F1d). The variants are grouped together because
they share melodic featurestheyre not necessarily fingered similarly.
The tablature beneath the standard staff notation shows plausible ways of fingering each formula.
Naturally, there are lots of alternatives, and I havent necessarily tried to guess how Reinhardt
himself might have fingered them. Whats more, since Im a very bad guitarist, I probably
havent even always indicated the most logical fingering; sorryI tried.
Ive transcribed a representative instance of each formula as played by Reinhardt on a specific
recording. Beneath the staff notation, Ive indicated the track title, date, and measure number
where each selected example occurs. (The measures are numbered by chorus and by bar number
within each given chorus. For instance, 2.3 means the third bar of the second chorus.)
Above the staff notation, Ive shown the harmonies over which Reinhardt played each
transcribed formula. Ive used both lead-sheet symbols and Roman numeralsso, if the
harmonic indication says D7 (V7), the chord is a D7, functioning as a dominant-seventh (V7)
in the key of G major (or G minor). Of course, Reinhardt would transpose most of these
formulas up and down the fretboard. He also used some of them in a variety of harmonic
contextsin one or two cases Ive shown two melodically identical versions of a given formula,
with contrasting harmonic settings.
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The best way to become a creative improviser is to make up your own licks. The best way to
learn somebody elses licks is by ear. But if youre interested in understanding Django
Reinhardts music, the following pages provide some useful information. The most important
thing is to have fun!
Ben Givan, June 2014
Transcribed by Ben Givan
F1
a) Bb (I)
b
b
V
6
T
A
B
c) A7 (II7)
#
V
8
d) G (I)
#
V
Dinah
(12/34), 1.15
##
Emin7 (II7)
9 7
Loves Melody
(2/1/46), 2.9

##
D (I)
10
4
H.C.Q. Strut
(8/25/39), 2.9
8 5
F (I)
8 5
A Little Love, Chicago

Runnin Wild
A Little Kiss (4/26/37), 2.4 (4/26/37), 4.27
(4/26/37), 1.4
Charleston
(4/21/37), 2.7
#
nn #
5
b) C7 (V)
nn
b
Emin (II)
10 7
Ise a Muggin
(5/4/36), 2.25
nnb
F (I)
10
10
Im Coming
Virginia (3/7/38), 3.9
F2
a) A7 (V7)
##
V
9 7
nn
7
c) D7 (V7)
# b
b
V
4 1
A Little Love,
A Little Kiss
(4/26/37), 1.5
5 3
b) b Bb7 (IV7/IV)
b
bb J
Dmin (II)
2 0
9
7
5 3
4 1
2 0
3 0
b j
1
10
12
10
Charleston
(4/21/37), 2.19
Sweet Chorus
(10/15/36), 1.15
10
11 8
3 0
e) G7 (II7)
n

#
b J

b
V
10
d) Eb (IV)
nbb b
b
Cmin (IV)
F (I)
Bugle Call Rag

Three Little
Words (6/14/38), (7/7/37), 9.2
2.29
The Sunshine of Your

Smile (4/35), 2.21
10
13
10
Honeysuckle
Babik (Take 1)
Rose (1/31/38), 1.6 (5/21/47), 3.21
10
a) C
(I)
F3 V
10
10
# b n
b
b) G (I)
#

5
B 7 (V7/bVI)
8
4
Confessin
Miss Annabelle
Lee (4/26/37), 3.7 (3/35), 2.15
F4
How High the

Moon (3/26/47), 3.7
a) E7 (V7)
n b) Amin (II) n #
n# n #
### j n
J
n
V
6
10
12
Anniversary Song
(7/6/47), 2.13
c) D7 (III7) b
bb #
V
10
13
10
10
12
13
11
12
Brazil (7/18/47), 2.25
Ab (I)
b
d) E b7 (V7)
3
bb b b n b n
J
3
7
10
11 1011 10
8
Chez Moi a Six

Heures (5/8/42), 3.17
8 11
12 11
Distraction (4/16/42), 2.24
e) Fmin (V)
b n
b b
b
V
10 8 7
10
10 11
10 13
11 14
G (I)
f) D7 (V7)
#
#
nn b
12 13
5
All the Things You Are

(1-2/49), 2.3
Nagasaki
(10/15/36), 1.15
g) C7 (bVII)
#

V # b
5
10
11
Loves Melody (2/1/46), 2.23
F5
B b (I)
a) D (I)
b)
##
nnbb
V
3
7 9 7 6
7 10
Moonglow
(10/21/35), 1.15
C #m7(b 5) (VII)
c) D (I)

nn #
10
7
10
11
12
11
14
14
12
I Got Rhythm Them There Eyes

(6/14/38), 2.2
(1-2/49), 3.9

## j
V
B7 (V7/II)
F6
My Sweet (1/31/38), 3.11
b R
b
V
B (I)
F7
11
10
12
11
12
12
13
12
Hangin Around
Boudon (7/7/37), 2.7
G (I)
F8 V
10

10
10
How High the Moon

(3/26/47), 2.17
b C7 (V7)

b
V J
F (I)
F9
10
10
13
12
11
10
11
12
Honeysuckle Rose
(1/31/38), 1.8
F10
B b (IV)
b)
a) C (I)
#
b
V J
11 12
13
12 15 12
13
12
14
14
12
13
12 15
10 13 10
11
(I)
12
12
Bmin (VI)
11
Daphne (9/29/37), 3.11
12
11
10 13 10
11
Japanese Sandman
(5/17/39), 2.19
Dynamisme (5/8/42), 4.9
c) D
##
V
11
12
10
14
12
11
F11
a) b A7 (V)
#
n n n b
## n
n # n
#
V
11
10
9
12
12
13
12
12
13
10
11
10
10
A Little Love, A Little Kiss

(4/26/37), 3.5
b (I)
Faug (V)
b
b) B n #
n

b
n b
b
V J
12
10
10
11
13
12
11
10
Hot Lips (4/22/37), 2.7
c) B b (I)

n
b j # n
b n
J
b
V
3
12
11
14
14
12
12
13
14
12
13
12
Blue Light Blues (3/7/38), 7.6
15
13
11
10
11
10
12
d) D
##
V #
(I)
#
10
10
10
A7 (V)
n # #
3
10
10
12
11
11
12
Aint Misbehavin
(4/22/37), 3.29
F12
a) C (I)
b
V
b) D7 (V7/II)
# n
J
b
10
10
13
10
10 7
11
10
Avalon
Three Little
Words (6/14/38), (7/35), 3.27
2.26
d) Dmin
(II)
V
12 10
c) A7 (V7)
## b
n
8
Coquette
(1/31/46), 2.4
e) G7
f) E b7 (bVI7)
b #
n # b b
b b
j
3
3
12 10
(V7/IV)
10 12 10
12 11 10
Tornerai
(2/1/38), 4.12
12 10
12 11 10
Nagasaki
(10/15/36), 1.5
8 6
Stompin at Decca
(1/31/38), 2.4
F13
b) C7 (V7)
b
n
J
b
a) D7 (V7)
#

V
# n
10
4
5
11
c) Fmin (II)
bb n b
b J
8
9
V #
10
7
Minor Swing
(12/49), 2.14
F14
10 8
10 7
8
10
12
11
12
11
10
Daphne (9/29/37), 3.13
b
a) F7 (IV7)
b) Bmin (III) B dim (bIII)
b
# #
VJ
J
10 8
Songe dAutomne
(5/21/47), 3.2
d) D7 (V7/IV)

##
12
Stompin at Decca Honeysuckle

(1/31/38), 2.24
Rose (1/31/38),
1.9
E7 (V7)
10
F #min (II)
c)
.
#### n #

J
11
10
11
Festival Swing I Wonder Where My Melancholy

Baby (3/22/39), 3.6
(12/26/40), 12.5 My Baby is
Tonight (5/17/39),
4.25
F15
a) G7 (V7)

V
10
b)
(I)
c) B #
b
Vb
B
10
11
10
10
11
10
Charleston (4/21/37), 3.1

VJ
C (I)
F16
10
12
13
Minor Swing
(11/25/37), 3.2
Blues Clair
(2/26/43), 1.9
#
Amin (I)
12 13 12 10
13
12
R-Vingt Six (3/26/47), 2.5
13
11
10
#(II)
d) Dmin

nn
13
12
10
12
Ol Man River
(11/14/47), 2.9
F17
Vb
Gm7( 5) (II)
11
11
J
10
Blue Lou (3/26/47), 2.1
F18
a) Emin (II)
#
V # J
2
b) D
##
A Little Love,
A Little Kiss
(4/26/37), 3.4
F19
12
12
Lady Be Good
(9/29/37), Intro.7
10
My Sweet (1/31/38), 2.20
a) G (I)
# b
V
9
(I)
12
b) E b (I)
nbb b
b
8
Big Boy Blues

(11/19/37), 2.3
c) B b
b
b
V
(I)
10
10
10
Chez Moi a Six Heures

(5/8/42), 2.27
# > > > > > >

V
B7 (V7/VI)
F20
A7 (V7/V)
Emin (VI)
Limehouse Blues (5/4/36), 4.11
C (I)
F21 V #
4
#
5
Appel Indirect (6/14/38), 1.1

Gmin (I)
F22
b
Vb
#
0
#
0
Swing 48 (7/6/47), 3.8
a)
b) G (I)
#
C (I)
F23 V
3
0
Exactly Like You (4/21/37),

2.1
F24
Dinah (12/34), 2.25
G (I)
a) G (I) C7 (I7)
b)
#
#
V
15
14
17
14
15
14
Dinah (12/34), 2.1
17
14
15
14
17
14
15
17
15
17
15
17
15
17
Stompin at
Decca (1/31/38), 2.32
F25
a) G (I)
# #
V #
0
4
b) D7
n
E 7 (bVI7)
0
3
0
4
0
5
0
4
0
4
Ive Had My
Moments (9/35), 2.17
0
5
0
5
Solitude (4/21/37), 2.27
#
# #
11
11
11
12
12
12
11
11
11
12
12
12
11
11
11
12
12
12
11
11
11
12
12
12
A7 (V7/V)
F26 V
(II7)
Limehouse Blues
(5/4/36), 5.13
D (I)
b)
#
#
#
# # n #
V b #
J
a)
F27
G (I)
0
3
3
6
Nagasaki (10/15/36), 1.23
2
1
2
5
4
5
5
4
5
8
7
8
8
7
8
11
10
11
11
10
11
Loves Melody (2/1/46), 2.8

A
F28
b
V b bb
(I)
n 3
J
10
7
8
5
8
8
Confessin (3/10/53), 3.10
b b
B dim (bVI)
Bm7( 5) (VI)
F29 V b n
10
10
Amin (V)
9
9
Just One of Those Things (5/21/47), 2.43
A7 (V7/.V)
F30 V #
0
#
0
b b
A dim (bV)
Sweet Georgia Brown (1/31/38), 2.23
7
7
F31
a) D7 (V7)
b
b
#

n # n
#
b
b n
n
V
3
0
4
0
5
0
Confessin (3/35), 2.23
b) G (I)
#
V b n #
4
0
7
0
7
Lady Be Good (12/4/34), 2.25
F32 V
E 7 (bVI7)
13
12
11
13
12
11
Mixture (4/16/42), 2.18
b n
12
11
10
n b
13
12
11
n b
13
12
11
F7 (V7/IV)
F33 V b
b
13
14
13
12
11
11
12
b n b
(IV)
10
12
12
11
10
10
Japanese Sandman (5/17/39), 3.18
F34
E7 (V7)
Bmin (II)
a) A (I) F #min (VI)
#
n
# j
# j

J
V #
J
3
5 9
6 7 6
8
6 9 7 9 7
7 10 9 10 9
11
11
9 12 10 12 10
Porto Cabello (5/21/47), 1.17
b !
n
n
bbb
n
b
n
V
B dim (II)
C dim (bIII)
Cmin (III)
11
10
11
10
11
10
Hungaria (take 1) (3/21/39), 5.13
12
10
12
10
10
# b
b
V
b) E7n(V7)
n b b
3
bb b
n b
b
Dmin (IV)
F35
11 10
12 10
13 15 13
15 13
12 11 10
Anniversary Song
(7/6/47), 2.9
Dm7( 5) (II)
c)
6
10
d) A7 (V7)
n
##
#
J
3
3
10
15 14 13 12
15
Coquette (1/31/46), 2.12
Dynamisme (5/8/42), 4.13
V
#
C (I)
F36
10
12
10
10
12
Distraction (4/16/42), 2.23
b b b J
13
10
10
Ol Man River (11/14/47), 2.1
10
10
F37
a) F (I)

b
n b
V
3
10
12
10
10
12
10
12
10
12
10
10
12
10
13
12
Marie (1-2/49), 3.5
b) F7 (V7/II)
bbb b
b
V
11
11
10
13
11
10
13 111311
10
13
Confessin
(3/10/53), 3.12
F38
a) Emin (III) Amin (VI) Dmin (II) G7 (V7) b) D (I)

##
n ( )

VJ
J
J
5
7
12 12
Exactly Like You

(4/21/37), 3.23
14
( )
A7 (V7)
14
12 12
Aint Misbehavin
(4/22/37), 2.25
14
14
#
F min (II)
B7 (V7)
c) E (I)

####
V
8
d) Gmin7 (IV) A7 (V7)

nn## n # n # n #
10
##
V
Bmin (VI)
A7 (V7)
10
10
10
Emin (II)
10
Daphne (1/31/38), 3.30
My Melancholy Baby
(3/22/39), 2.30
e)
10
D (I)
Aint Misbehavin (4/22/37), 2.7
a) (V7) b
bb
V
F7
F39
10 12
11 13
b) (V7/V)
nn # # b n
A7
10 12
11 13
10 12
Hot Lips (4/22/37), 2.30
11 13
7
7
7
3
8
It Had to Be You
(2/1/38), 2.5
b b #F7 (V7/IV)
n b n b b
F (I)
F40 V b
3
12
13
12
11
12
11
10
11
10
10
3
8
3
7
Rose Room (4/22/37), 2.20
V
C (I)
F41
10
12
b

13
Blues Clair
(2/26/43), 4.11
10
12
10
bb

# j
Gmin (I)
12
12
13
10
13
Minor Blues
(4/16/47), 5.11
10
12
10
Biographical and Historical Bibliography

N.B. This is not a comprehensive listing.
For books and DVDs on how to play this music, consult www.djangobooks.com.
____________________
Some Books about Django Reinhardt
Antonietto, Alain, and Franois Billard. Django Reinhardt: Rhythmes Futurs. Paris:
Fayard, 2004.
Bessires, Vincent, and Michael Dregni. Django Reinhardt: Swing de Paris. Paris:
ditions Textuel, 2012.
Balen, Nol. Django Reinhardt: Le Gnie Vagabond. Monacho: Rocher, 2003.
Colombo, Robert G. Django Oltre il Mito: La Via Non American al Jazz. Genova: Erga
Edizioni, 2007.
Delaunay, Charles. Django Reinhardt. New York: Da Capo Press, 1961.
Dregni, Michael. Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004.
Fargeton, Pierre. La Modernit Chez Django: Linfluence du Be-Bop sur le Langage de
Django Reinhardt, entre 1947 et 1953. Aubauis: Mmoire dOc, 2005.
Franco, Maurizio. Django Reinhardt: Dalla Chitarra Gitana al Jazz. Milano: Sinfonica
Jazz, 2002.
Gerber, Alain. Insensiblement (Django). Paris: Fayard, 2010.
Givan, Benjamin. The Music of Django Reinhardt. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 2010.
Hodeir, Andr. Django Reinhardts Solo in Solid Old Man. In Toward Jazz, trans.
Nol Burch, 18688. New York: Da Capo, 1962.
Jimnez, Juan P., and Emilie Durand. Django Reinhardt: Un Gitano en Paris. Lleida:
Milenio, 2012.
Marty, Pierre. Django Ressuscit: Contribution ltude dune auto-rducation
fonctionelle... en 1928. Perigueux: Copdit, 2005.
Nab, Marc-douard. Nuage. Paris: Le Dilettante, 2009.

Schmitz, Alexander, and Peter Maier. Django Reinhardt: Sein Leben, Seine Musik, Seine
Schallplaten. Gauting-Buchendorff: Oreos Verlag, 1985.
Williams, Patrick. Django. Marseille: ditions Parenthses, 1998.
Williams, Patrick, et al. Les Quatre Vies Posthumes de Django Reinhardt: Trois Fictions
et une Chronique. Marseille: ditions Parenthses, 2010.
Vernon, Paul. Jean Django Reinhardt: A Contetual Bio-Discography: 19101953.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
____________________
Some Books about Jazz Manouche
Awosusi, Anita, ed. Die Musik der Sinti und Roma: Band 2: Der Sinti-Jazz. Heidelberg:
Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma, 1997.
Dregni, Michael, with Alain Antonietto, and Anne Legrand. Django Reinhardt and the
Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz. Denver: Speck Press, 2006.
Dregni, Michael. Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy
Swing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
____________________
Some Books on Jazz in France (and Related Subjects)
Archer-Straw, Petrine. Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s.
New York: Thames and Hudson, 2000.
Blake, Jody. Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age
Paris, 19001930. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
Bricktop, with James Haskins. Bricktop. New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, 1983.
Chesnel, Jacques. Le Jazz en Quarantaine: 19401946: Occupation/Liberation. Paris:
Isote, 1994.
Fry, Andy. Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920 1960. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Gendron, Bernard. Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the
Avant-Garde. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Goddard, Chris. Jazz Away from Home. New York: Paddington Press, 1979.
Jackson, Jeffrey H. Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003.
Jordan, Matthew F. Le Jazz: Jazz and French Cultural Identity. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 2010.
Lloyd, Craig. Eugene Bullard: Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris. Athens, GA:
University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Miller, Mark. Some Hustling, This!: Taking Jazz to the World 19141929. Toronto: The
Mercury Press, 2005.
Miner, Luke. Paris Jazz: A Guide from the Jazz Age to the Present. New York: The
Little Bookroom, 2005.
Moody, Bill. The Jazz Exiles: American Musicians Abroad. Reno: University of Nevada
Press, 1993.
Nettelbeck, Colin. Dancing with De Beauvoir: Jazz and the French. Carlton: Melbourne
University Press, 2004.
Rgnier, Grard. Jazz et Socit sous lOccupation. Paris: LHarmattan, 2009.
Shack, William A. Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Stovall, Tyler. Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1996.
Tourns, Ludovic. New Orleans sur Seine: Histoire du Jazz en France. Paris: Fayard,
1999.
Vian, Boris. Jazz in Paris: Chroniques de jazz pour la station de radio WNEW New York
(194849), 2343. Paris: Pauvert, 1996.
Vian, Boris. Chroniques de Jazz. Paris: Pauvert, 1996.
Vian, Boris. crits sur le Jazz.!Paris: Pauvert, 1996. (?)
Vian, Boris. Round About Close to Midnight: The Jazz Writings of Boris Vian. Trans.
Mike Zwerin. London: Quartet Books, 1988.
Zwerin, Mike. Swing under the Nazis: Jazz as a Metaphor for Freedom. New York:
Cooper Square Press, 1985.
Zwerin, Mike. The Parisian Jazz Chronicles: An Improvisational Memoir. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2005.

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Django Reinhardts Melodic Formulas (Licks)

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A Little Love, Chicago

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Bugle Call Rag

The Sunshine of Your

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How High the

Brazil (7/18/47), 2.25

Chez Moi a Six

Distraction (4/16/42), 2.24

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All the Things You Are

Loves Melody (2/1/46), 2.23

I Got Rhythm Them There Eyes

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My Sweet (1/31/38), 3.11

How High the Moon

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Daphne (9/29/37), 3.11

Dynamisme (5/8/42), 4.9

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A Little Love, A Little Kiss

Hot Lips (4/22/37), 2.7

Blue Light Blues (3/7/38), 7.6

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Daphne (9/29/37), 3.13

Stompin at Decca Honeysuckle

Festival Swing I Wonder Where My Melancholy

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Charleston (4/21/37), 3.1

R-Vingt Six (3/26/47), 2.5

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Blue Lou (3/26/47), 2.1

My Sweet (1/31/38), 2.20

Big Boy Blues

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Chez Moi a Six Heures

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Limehouse Blues (5/4/36), 4.11

Appel Indirect (6/14/38), 1.1

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Swing 48 (7/6/47), 3.8

Exactly Like You (4/21/37),

Dinah (12/34), 2.25

Dinah (12/34), 2.1

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Solitude (4/21/37), 2.27

Nagasaki (10/15/36), 1.23

Loves Melody (2/1/46), 2.8

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Confessin (3/10/53), 3.10

Just One of Those Things (5/21/47), 2.43

Sweet Georgia Brown (1/31/38), 2.23

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Confessin (3/35), 2.23

Lady Be Good (12/4/34), 2.25

Mixture (4/16/42), 2.18

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Japanese Sandman (5/17/39), 3.18

Porto Cabello (5/21/47), 1.17

Hungaria (take 1) (3/21/39), 5.13

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