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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
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1938
The Flat Foot Floogie,DR 2878-1,"Fremeaux FA 308, JSP 342, Classics 793, Music Memoria 87948","14/6/38 - Paris - QHCF - Stepane Grappelly (v), Django Reinhardt (g), Joseph Reinhardt, Eugene Vees (g), Roger Grasset (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
This Gaillard–Stewart swing number sits in the archive with the late-1930s string-quintet repertory. Its playful vocal character is useful even in an instrumental arrangement.
Tune details
Music: Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart
Words: Bud Green
Documented in archive: 1938
Original key: Not established
Study level: Intermediate; melody, pulse and arrangement awareness
Melody & head
A playful swing song for call and response, short answers and relaxed time.
A bass or vocal solo study is not a Django guitar-solo recreation.
Study the inherited Django recording evidence
A playful swing song for call and response, short answers and relaxed time.
Session evidence
The Flat Foot Floogie,DR 2878-1,"Fremeaux FA 308, JSP 342, Classics 793, Music Memoria 87948","14/6/38 - Paris - QHCF - Stepane Grappelly (v), Django Reinhardt (g), Joseph Reinhardt, Eugene Vees (g), Roger Grasset (b)"
Hear the recurring head figure as a rhythmic unit, not a scale exercise. Locate its cadence in one chosen performance before filling the harmony. Check the video key before playing with the chart.
Chart & Form
Hear the recurring head figure as a rhythmic unit, not a scale exercise. Locate its cadence in one chosen performance before filling the harmony.
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.
BACKING TRACK - THE FLAT FOOT FLOOGIE (Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart, Bud Green) F 160 BPM SWING
Luc Maes
Swing · 160 BPM · 5m7s · Video available when checked; creator-described attribution.
Creator-provided play-along; instrumentation and feel vary by selection. Check the key and full arrangement before joining in; the guide chart may use another key. Tempo is the creator’s stated value.
Hear the recurring head figure as a rhythmic unit, not a scale exercise. Locate its cadence in one chosen performance before filling the harmony.
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.
Speak the head rhythm without lyrics, clap it against a steady pulse, then play a two-note answer. Keep each answer shorter than the original call.
Comping & voicings
Use a relaxed, bouncing pulse and avoid accelerating when the repeated figure becomes more animated. Agree any vocal breaks before starting.
Voicing note sets
Use a relaxed, bouncing pulse and avoid accelerating when the repeated figure becomes more animated. Agree any vocal breaks before starting.
Keep the accompaniment clear
First establish an even pulse; add rhythmic variation only when the melody leaves space.
A bass or vocal solo study is not a Django guitar-solo recreation.
Practice room
80–120 bpm, then increase gradually
Your assignment
Speak the head rhythm without lyrics, clap it against a steady pulse, then play a two-note answer. Keep each answer shorter than the original call.
Loop these changes
Speak the head rhythm without lyrics, clap it against a steady pulse, then play a two-note answer. Keep each answer shorter than the original call.
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.
A bass or vocal solo study is not a Django guitar-solo recreation.
A bass or vocal solo study is not a Django guitar-solo recreation.
Arranging the tune
Solo guitar
Keep the melody uppermost and begin with a single bass note under each harmony. Use a relaxed, bouncing pulse and avoid accelerating when the repeated figure becomes more animated. Agree any vocal breaks before starting.
Trio or larger group
Use a relaxed, bouncing pulse and avoid accelerating when the repeated figure becomes more animated. Agree any vocal breaks before starting.
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.
Source-attributed title, performer and recording context; not a claim that every inherited field is independently verified.
Inherited chart and recording evidence
Original archive evidence retained.
Illustration credit & provenance
Original AI-assisted illustration created for Djangopedia
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 2026-10-19; original editorial artwork, not a historical photograph.
Prompt: Use case: stylized-concept. Asset: horizontal 1536x1024, 3:2 Djangopedia tune illustration for The Flat Foot Floogie. Original scene: A humorous low-angle dance scene, three dancers with exaggerated flat two-tone shoes and zigzag knees, with a small acoustic bass in the distance. Medium: authentic-feeling 1950s silk-screen editorial print, flat separate ink layers, boldly simplified shapes, long expressive angular silhouettes, spare wiry line accents, off-register overlaps, small areas of crosshatching, slight dry ink and paper texture. Strong asymmetric composition with generous negative space; witty and musical, sophisticated rather than children's cartoon. Limited palette: slate blue, dusty pink, pale butter yellow and ink black. All heads and instrument bodies wholly inside frame unless otherwise specified. No letters, words, numbers, captions, borders, logos, watermark, realistic shading, gradients or photographed paper. Invent an entirely new composition, not a reproduction of any existing print. No claim of a documented historical scene.
Research & rights notes
Exact video-to-matrix/take associations are not established. Historical rows remain inherited evidence.
No complete chart is present in the inherited archive. Learn from one verified arrangement and establish its roadmap before a jam.
No chart key is asserted; verify the concert key of the chosen recording or accompaniment.
The original composition/publication year has not been independently established for this guide; recording years are separate evidence.
No qualifying Django solo-study recreation selected. Other players’ solos and melody lessons do not fill this gap.
