MeterConfirm against the chosen arrangement; no historical metre inferred from the title
MusicIrving Berlin
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✓ Recording evidence
○ Key & form
○ Chart
✓ History
✓ Playing notes
✓ Practice plan
✓ Backing track
✓ Django recording
✓ Django solo study aid
✓ Illustration
✓ Sources
✓ Difficulty
Django's Recordings
Django recordings for this tune. Uploader dates and take labels remain source claims; only an evidenced exact association enables a row’s Listen control.
1 historical recording entries · source text preserved
Entry
Year
Recording / session / release evidence
Listen
01
1949
Marie,CW 38 ,"Fremeaux FA 317, RCA ND 70929-2, RCA ND 90448","Jan-Feb 1949 - Rome - Django Reinhardt (g), Stephane Grappelly (v),Gianni Safred (p), Carlo Pecori (b), Aurelio de Carolis (d)"
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A dash means no video has been associated with this exact historical recording. Tune-level listening resources remain available above.
History & Listening
Berlin’s song appears in Django’s later repertoire alongside piano, bass and drums. The publisher’s Rome-era material and the inherited rows provide the historical anchor; modern trio versions offer a useful comparison of how the melody can travel between clarinet and guitar.
Tune details
Music: Irving Berlin
Documented in archive: 1949
Original key: Not established
Study level: Intermediate listening study; arrangement and source awareness
Melody & head
Listen for a clear melody over moving accompaniment. Compare the role of the lead instrument in the modern trio with Django’s guitar in the historical listening selection.
The proposed play-along includes its own score and arrangement. Establish its concert key and chorus length before combining it with another edition.
Listen for a clear melody over moving accompaniment. Compare the role of the lead instrument in the modern trio with Django’s guitar in the historical listening selection. Source-attributed credits: Irving Berlin
Chart & Form
A complete harmonic route is not established here. First sing the melody and mark phrase endings; verify the underlying chords from a reliable edition before adding substitutions.
No verified complete chart is supplied. The listening and practice notes do not stand in for a chord chart.
No readable chord chart has been added for this title.
Marie - Django Reinhardt (for Guitar Transcript) | Gypsy Jazz Guitar Tabs
DjangoKOR
source-described; accuracy not independently verified
Creator presents a study of Django’s recorded solo. Use it alongside the original recording; exact transcription accuracy has not been independently reviewed.
Public, processed and embeddable when checked; creator-described identity.
Performer and tune attribution follow the named creator/distributor metadata. Proposed listening selection; no ranking or exact historical-take equivalence is implied.
Listen for a clear melody over moving accompaniment. Compare the role of the lead instrument in the modern trio with Django’s guitar in the historical listening selection.
Once a harmony is independently established, sing its destination note before adding an approach. Do not infer a progression from the tune title.
Pitch choices
Establish the actual harmony before choosing a scale. Begin with the melody and the destination note; no tune-wide scale formula is asserted.
Learn the first complete melody phrase without adding fills. Alternate that phrase between two registers, keeping its pickup, articulation and ending identical; only then add a short answer in the gap.
Comping & voicings
Keep chord changes connected with the nearest available inner voice. Leave the lead instrument’s long notes clear rather than filling every held melody note.
Voicing note sets
Keep chord changes connected with the nearest available inner voice. Leave the lead instrument’s long notes clear rather than filling every held melody note.
Keep the accompaniment clear
First rehearse the specific phrase entry and release described above; add a chord pulse only when it supports that phrase.
The proposed play-along includes its own score and arrangement. Establish its concert key and chorus length before combining it with another edition.
Practice room
60–90 quarter-note BPM for short study fragments; slow the source as needed
Your assignment
Learn the first complete melody phrase without adding fills. Alternate that phrase between two registers, keeping its pickup, articulation and ending identical; only then add a short answer in the gap.
Loop these changes
Learn the first complete melody phrase without adding fills. Alternate that phrase between two registers, keeping its pickup, articulation and ending identical; only then add a short answer in the gap.
Return to the selected recording after each short loop. Confirm the entry, release and next phrase cue before extending the passage.
Metronome
Use a quiet quarter-note click for short loops. Keep the preceding rest and the next entry in the loop; remove the click briefly to test internal time.
Transposition
After learning the chosen fragment and its actual harmony, move that fragment to one nearby key by naming the target notes. Do not transpose an unverified progression.
At the session
Confirm the composition identity, concert key and complete arrangement before calling the tune. Agree pickup and ending together.
Start together
Use the chosen recording’s entry cue only after checking its phrase length.
Finish together
Agree a plain final arrival and a visible cutoff; do not assume a live video’s tag is universal.
The proposed play-along includes its own score and arrangement. Establish its concert key and chorus length before combining it with another edition.
The proposed play-along includes its own score and arrangement. Establish its concert key and chorus length before combining it with another edition.
Arranging the tune
Solo guitar
Begin with the melody alone, then add only independently established bass arrivals. Keep chord changes connected with the nearest available inner voice. Leave the lead instrument’s long notes clear rather than filling every held melody note.
Trio or larger group
Keep chord changes connected with the nearest available inner voice. Leave the lead instrument’s long notes clear rather than filling every held melody note.
Vocal considerations
Follow the song’s breathing where a vocal version exists. Establish the singer’s key independently; lyrics are not reproduced here.
Sources & credits
This player guide combines inherited recording evidence and editorial study notes. Musical study notes are editorial suggestions; compare them with the recording.
Source-attributed title, credit and recording context; conflicts are stated rather than treated as resolved.
Illustration credit & provenance
Original AI-assisted illustration created for Djangopedia
Original AI-assisted editorial artwork inspired by the tune’s mood; not a documented historical scene.
Generated with the native image-generation tool on 2026-10-19; original editorial artwork, not a historical photograph.
Prompt: Use case: stylized-concept. Create one horizontal 1536x1024, 3:2 original Djangopedia tune illustration for Marie. Scene: A violinist in a cream jacket and a guitarist in a dark suit face each other across a small round table; a tall potted plant and one warm hanging lamp establish a graceful lyrical cafe. Medium: 1950s serigraph editorial print, bold simplified flat separate ink layers, elongated expressive angular figures, wiry line accents, subtle off-register overlaps, selective dry-ink texture and small crosshatched areas. Sophisticated mid-century jazz print, witty and musical rather than children's cartoon. Strong asymmetric composition and generous negative space. Palette: ochre, brick red, ink navy and warm cream. Keep all heads and instrument bodies within frame. No words, letters, numbers, labels, watermark, borders, gradients, photorealism or photographed paper. Entirely original composition; not a reproduction of an existing print or a documented historical scene.
Research & rights notes
The proposed play-along includes its own score and arrangement. Establish its concert key and chorus length before combining it with another edition.
Exact video-to-recording matrix/take associations are not established. Historical rows remain inherited evidence.
Complete chart, concert key and full form are not independently verified; none has been invented to increase coverage.
Marie - Django Reinhardt (for Guitar Transcript) | Gypsy Jazz Guitar TabsDjangoKORsource-described; accuracy not independently verifiedCreator presents a study of Django’s recorded solo. Use it alongside the original recording; exact transcription accuracy has not been independently reviewed.✓ Featured
Django Reinhardt - Marie Solo | Gypsy Jazz Guitar TabsDjangoKORPublic, processed and embeddable when checked; creator-described identity.Creator-labelled Django solo study. Compare with the original; note-for-note accuracy remains for musical review.Select video
