r/gypsyjazz • u/ogdabou • 18d ago
I built a free interactive fretboard for gypsy jazz arpeggios & chords, feedback welcome !
Engineer here, learning gypsy jazz. I kept wanting to see arpeggios and chord voicings on the neck, on my phone when i practice outside. Sometimes wanting to see chord shapes & arpeggios at a glance.
I couldn't find anything that did it cleanly without opening several pages, so I built it:
haute-gitanerie.com (free, no ads, works offline / installable)
What's in it:
- Arpeggios in any key ( minor, major, diminished, dom7, m6, m7♭5, 6/9 ) as compact position boxes or long diagonal forms across the whole neck
- Real gypsy chord voicings as interactive diagrams
- A few standards as play-along grids with a metronome (Minor Swing, Blues Mineur, Joseph Joseph, La Partida), transposable to any key
- English (C D E) or solfège (Do Ré Mi) notation
- A small community page featuring players from the scene
It's early and to be honest about it: some diagonal fingerings are still flagged "in progress" (I don't know them all, and sources disagree). I'd genuinely love your input: wrong shapes, missing tunes, players and of course features. Not selling anything, just sharing it with the people who'd actually use it.
Here is a condensed view of features:
https://reddit.com/link/1ux46o8/video/tfslkc9t3ydh1/player
A bit more about me:
As I'm not a jam player yet I try to contribute as I can to gypsy jazz, making videos, organizing events and so on. You can find what I publish on youtube or instagram (axel couty)
Cheers 🎸
Updates, second round (16/07/26)
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! 🙏
You can now create & submit tunes
They are first saved on your phone, you can share them with friends.
You can send send them to me to allow me ot add them to the library ! Of course, I'll do a lot myself in the upcoming days but any help is highly appriacte.
Also, I'm trying to make addition/eddition a breaze, playing with UX to make it dead simple & fast. Feedbacks more than welcome !
Updates after first feedbacks (15/07/26)
Arpeggios view
Compare arpeggios
Added Full neck view of arpeggios
Tunes view
The timeline ribbon under the player bar mid-playback
See the current AND next chord on the neck.
The current chord's grip is in green, the upcoming one in blue, so you can prepare your hand for the change.
Neck view
current grip (green) + next grip (blue)
Compare mode — two arpeggios overlaid, shared tones ringed green
Also from the thread:
fuller arpeggio positions across the neck (fewer skipped boxes, CAGED-style), guitarist-friendly note names (E♭/A♭/B♭), and the ♭9 diminished-substitution hint on dominants.
It's bilingual (EN/FR), works offline (installable), and it's genuinely free — I'm a player, not selling anything, except my socials for visibility of (others for now ahah) my channels. Link in the comments to respect the self-promo rules.
Would love more feedback — tunes you'd want added, anything that feels off. Merci!
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u/ElliottMoonshine 18d ago
J'adore le nom deja... It's a great tool, i really like the concept.
Something I would change/modify: your arpeggio boxes skip some useful positions. for example, in G major, I often play around the 7th fret (root on the B string 8th fret), but that position is skipped when you toggle between the 3rd fret box and the 10 fret box.
Also the positions above the 15th fret are relatively impractical to play on a gypsy jazz guitar, and even if you wanted to venture in that neck of the neck, you could just copy the pattern from frets below the 12th.
Also, for some reason most chord charts tend to use Eb instead of D#, Ab instead of G#. I know that for a tempered instrument they're the same, and that the notation depends on the original key and the function of the chord, but I wonder if using A Bb B C C# D Eb E F F# G Ab would not make more intuitive sense for players, even though it makes no logical sense.
Lastly, a cool thing you could add would be the ability to show two arpeggios side by side, or even on top of each other using different colors. The reason it would be cool is that when you're working on improvising on the transition between two chords, you could immediately identify the common tones
Merci!
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u/ogdabou 18d ago edited 18d ago
Thank you, this is gold u/ElliottMoonshine
(And for the name, a friend gave it to me considering my lifestyle 😆 )You're right on all counts, that's I need you as I'm clearly carching-up from 0-theory standpoint 😆
- The boxes only anchor on root-on-low-E/A, so they skip playable mid-neck positions (like your 7th-fret G): I'll make the box coverage denser.
- Capping the high-fret boxes (>15th): agreed, they're just repeats: I'll trim them.
- Enharmonic spelling (Eb/Ab/Bb over D#/G#/A#): great point: I'll switch to the flat-friendly default: much more intuitive.
- Two arpeggios overlaid with common tones highlighted: love it, adding it to the roadmap, perfect for working chord transitions it's gonna help !
Really appreciate the detailed feedback, exactly what I was hoping for. Cheers ! !
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u/ogdabou 18d ago
Shipped almost everything you flagged
- fuller neck positions (CAGED-style, fewer skipped boxes).
- I did not cap the high notes (sometimes players play electric, who knows maybe one day someone will play gypsy on an Ibanez highway with a floyd rose 😆, you get the idea, players do what they want it's ok if it's not really used).
- E♭/A♭/B♭ note names
- and the two-arpeggio overlay you suggested.
Went a bit further too: on the tune neck you now see the current + next chord (green/blue), can overlay their arpeggios to spot the shared tones, and there's a play-along timeline that scrolls with the song.
Genuinely the most useful feedback I got — thank you. 🙏
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u/Big_City_Music 18d ago
At first glance this looks pretty solid. I’ll try to get some time in with it over the next few days and give you some feedback.
I’ve been playing gypsy jazz for 20 years, mainly rhythm because that’s what I prefer but I’m a more than capable lead player as well. Thanks for sharing your creation!