DjangopediaA lyrical standard for shaping a long melodic arc and a convincing return from contrast.
Sing the last phrase before the middle section and the first phrase after it without stopping.
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Django Reinhardt
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| Entry | Year | Recording / session / release evidence | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 1935 | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,P 77334 ,Fremeaux FA 303,"April 1935 - Pierre Lord (vo),Stephane Grappelly (v), Rene Ronald (p), Django Reinhardt (g)." | — |
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Kern and Harbach wrote this song for Roberta in 1933. The modern listening choices include Grappelli with the Diz Disley Trio and Yorgui Loeffler; the chord-melody lesson is labelled separately.
Music: Jerome Kern
Words: Otto Harbach
Source-attributed publication / composition: 1933
Original key: Not established
Study level: Intermediate; sing the last phrase before the middle section and the first phrase after it without stopping
A lyrical standard for shaping a long melodic arc and a convincing return from contrast.
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,P 77334 ,Fremeaux FA 303,"April 1935 - Pierre Lord (vo),Stephane Grappelly (v), Rene Ronald (p), Django Reinhardt (g)."
Preserve the broad melody arc before embellishing it. Locate the contrasting middle section and practise its return as a separate listening exercise until its tonal shift is secure. Check the video key before playing with the chart.
Preserve the broad melody arc before embellishing it. Locate the contrasting middle section and practise its return as a separate listening exercise until its tonal shift is secure.
A complete chord chart has not yet been verified. The exercises are editorial listening and practice suggestions, not a replacement score.
No readable chord chart has been added for this title.
Guitare Improvisation
Swing · 65 BPM · 8m20s · Video available when checked; creator-described attribution.
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Original jazz serigraph illustration for smoke gets in your eyes
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Illustration credits & provenance →Selected performances by notable Gypsy Jazz players and ensembles. Inclusion is editorial and does not imply an objective popularity ranking.
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Yorgui Loeffler - Bouncin' Aroundclaudio tiseiraVideo available when checked; creator-described attribution.Performer attribution follows the video title and channel description. Proposed listening selection; no popularity ranking implied.✓ Featured
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Stephane Grappelli with the Diz Disley Trio)Don McMahonVideo available when checked; creator-described attribution.Performer attribution follows the video title and channel description. Proposed listening selection; no popularity ranking implied.Select videoSing the last phrase before the middle section and the first phrase after it without stopping. Then play only their melody notes over a quiet pulse.
Use gently connected upper voices and avoid abrupt changes of register under a long melody note.
Chord-melody lesson with creator-supplied tabs; not a Django solo recreation.
55–85 bpm
Sing the last phrase before the middle section and the first phrase after it without stopping. Then play only their melody notes over a quiet pulse.
Count quarter notes first. Then place the click on beats 2 and 4 at half the click rate, keeping the phrase length unchanged.
Confirm the chosen arrangement key; Confirm the complete form. Agree the arrangement, pickup and ending before counting in.
Do not impose one performer’s rubato on a fixed-tempo backing track without adjusting the phrasing.
Keep the melody uppermost and begin with a single bass note under each harmony. Use gently connected upper voices and avoid abrupt changes of register under a long melody note.
Use gently connected upper voices and avoid abrupt changes of register under a long melody note.
Choose a comfortable singing key and transpose the accompaniment as a whole; lyrics are not reproduced here.
This player guide combines inherited recording evidence and editorial study notes. Musical study notes are editorial suggestions; compare them with the recording.
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Original AI-generated illustration for Djangopedia; not a historical photograph.
Original AI-assisted editorial artwork inspired by the tune’s mood. It does not depict a documented historical event.
Generated with the native image-generation tool on 2026-10-18; original editorial artwork, not a historical photograph.
Prompt: Create original horizontal 1536x1024 3:2 editorial serigraph artwork for smoke gets in your eyes. An anonymous guitarist in a small jazz club, curling abstract translucent-looking flat ink ribbons above a coffee cup. Stage 6C visual vocabulary: simplified angular silhouettes, expressive asymmetry and negative space, flat limited inks smoky blue, pale peach, charcoal, ivory, rough handmade ink edges, tactile paper grain. Mid-century jazz silk-screen print, restrained whimsy, strong graphic composition, no gradients, no photorealism, no words, no letters, no border. Original imagined scene, not a historical depiction. Heads and instruments fully inside frame.
