A take-comparison study that starts with the exact tune rather than its common title words.
If you study one thing
Choose a two-bar phrase that appears in both takes.
William P. Gottlieb / Library of Congress Aquarium, New York, N.Y. · circa November 1946 · Photo credits
Chart keyNot established
FormNot established
FeelSwing
Meter4/4 study pulse; confirm the arrangement
MusicHoagy Carmichael
Guide coverage9 / 12 sections present
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See what is here and what is missing
✓ Recording evidence
○ Key & form
○ Chart
✓ History
✓ Playing notes
✓ Practice plan
○ Backing track
✓ Django recording
✓ Django solo study aid
✓ Photograph
✓ 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.
2 historical recording entries · source text preserved
Entry
Year
Recording / session / release evidence
Listen
01
1938
My Sweet,DTB 3526-1 ,"Fremeaux 307, JSP 342","31/1/38 - London - QHCF - Stephane Grappelly (v), Django Reinhardt, Roger Chaput, Eugene Vees (g), Louis Vola (b)"
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02
1938
My Sweet,DTB 3526-2 ,"Fremeaux 307, JSP 342, Classics 777, Music Memoria 87948,Jazz Archives 157222, Conifer HD 206, Rhapsody RHCD6","31/1/38 - London - QHCF - Stephane Grappelly (v), Django Reinhardt, Roger Chaput, Eugene Vees (g), Louis Vola (b)"
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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
The publisher’s booklet explicitly corrects an early label that credited Reinhardt and Grappelli: My Sweet is a Carmichael song, with Gorrell credited in the discography. Both DTB 3526 takes are retained as separate archive evidence.
Tune details
Music: Hoagy Carmichael
Words: Sam Gorrell
Documented in archive: 1938
Original key: Not established
Study level: Intermediate; melody, pulse and arrangement awareness
Melody & head
A take-comparison study that starts with the exact tune rather than its common title words.
Sweet Sue and Sweet Chorus are different tunes and are excluded from this guide.
Study the inherited Django recording evidence
A take-comparison study that starts with the exact tune rather than its common title words.
Session evidence
My Sweet,DTB 3526-1 ,"Fremeaux 307, JSP 342","31/1/38 - London - QHCF - Stephane Grappelly (v), Django Reinhardt, Roger Chaput, Eugene Vees (g), Louis Vola (b)"
Chart & Form
Compare the opening melody of the two takes before choosing a phrase to transcribe. Locate the final cadence and count backward to establish the form from the recording.
No complete verified chart is supplied. The exercises are listening and practice suggestions, not a substitute score.
No readable chord chart has been added for this title.
Play along
No backing track has been added.
Study Django's Solo
Performed studies, transcriptions, TAB, notation and lessons for studying Django’s solo. Inclusion does not certify note-for-note accuracy.
ジプシージャズギター【My Sweet】Django Reinhardt solo cover 1930年代 古き良きジャンゴソロ
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Video available when checked; creator-described attribution.
Nobutake Ito presents a guitar cover of Django’s My Sweet solo and identifies the 1938 London source. A creator-performed study; exact take and note accuracy are not independently certified.
Follow a shared key, a harmonic idea or a familiar form. Keys refer to this site’s chart editions; other recordings may use a different key.
Related chord movement
No sufficiently supported harmonic comparison has been added yet.
Same chart key
No match is established in the current chart metadata.
Same form
No match is established in the current chart metadata.
Behind the photograph
Documented public-domain Gottlieb photograph, proposed as an editorial portrait. It does not document this tune or its recording session. Existing uses are retained; additional reuse requires approval with this batch.
Part of William P. Gottlieb’s documented Aquarium photographs in New York, circa November 1946. The catalogue supplies the location and approximate date; this is not evidence of a particular tune being played.
Compare the opening melody of the two takes before choosing a phrase to transcribe. Locate the final cadence and count backward to establish the form from the recording.
Sing the destination note before playing the connecting phrase.
Pitch choices
Begin with the named chord tones. Add passing notes only after the melody and cadence are secure.
Choose a two-bar phrase that appears in both takes. Play its common outline, then copy one version’s rhythmic variation without changing the destination.
Comping & voicings
Support the lead with short, quiet chord attacks after the arrangement’s harmony is verified. Avoid substituting a familiar Sweet Sue cycle.
Voicing note sets
Support the lead with short, quiet chord attacks after the arrangement’s harmony is verified. Avoid substituting a familiar Sweet Sue cycle.
Keep the accompaniment clear
First establish an even pulse; add rhythmic variation only when the melody leaves space.
Sweet Sue and Sweet Chorus are different tunes and are excluded from this guide.
Practice room
80–120 bpm, then increase gradually
Your assignment
Choose a two-bar phrase that appears in both takes. Play its common outline, then copy one version’s rhythmic variation without changing the destination.
Loop these changes
Choose a two-bar phrase that appears in both takes. Play its common outline, then copy one version’s rhythmic variation without changing the destination.
Metronome
Count quarter notes first. Then place the click on beats 2 and 4 at half the click rate, keeping the phrase length unchanged.
Transposition
Move one short cadence to a nearby key by naming its chord tones, then return to the chosen study key.
At the session
Confirm the chosen arrangement key; Confirm the complete form. Agree the arrangement, pickup and ending before counting in.
Start together
Count a clear tempo and use the final cadence of the agreed arrangement.
Finish together
Cue the final tonic together; agree any tag before starting.
Sweet Sue and Sweet Chorus are different tunes and are excluded from this guide.
Sweet Sue and Sweet Chorus are different tunes and are excluded from this guide.
Arranging the tune
Solo guitar
Keep the melody uppermost and begin with a single bass note under each harmony. Support the lead with short, quiet chord attacks after the arrangement’s harmony is verified. Avoid substituting a familiar Sweet Sue cycle.
Trio or larger group
Support the lead with short, quiet chord attacks after the arrangement’s harmony is verified. Avoid substituting a familiar Sweet Sue cycle.
Vocal considerations
Choose a comfortable singing key and transpose the accompaniment as a whole; 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.
