🎼 Songs & Grilles
Find chord grilles for swing, gypsy jazz, bossa nova, samba and other music collected in Manouke.
What can Manouke do?
Manouke brings songs, grilles, chords, rhythms and practical music tools together in one place. Spend less time searching for chords, rewriting songs or looking for playable shapes — and more time actually playing.
Less time searching. More time playing.
🔎 FIND
Find the music you want to play
Browse songs, artists and grilles, then narrow the library down to what you actually need.
👤 Artists
Explore artists connected with the songs and discover related music across the Manouke library.
🎛 Filters
Search and filter grilles by instrument, creator, song author, year, time signature, genre and more.
📖 Stories behind the songs
Many songs include information about their origins, composers, recordings and connections with swing and manouche music.
⭐ Featured Grilles
Find selected arrangements and useful versions without digging through every available grille.
🎸 PLAY
Play the same song your way
A grille does not have to be tied to one key, one instrument or one set of chord shapes.
♯ Transpose
Transpose the entire song to another key instantly, including all chords throughout the grille.
🔄 Switch Instruments
View the same harmony on a different instrument without searching for another version of the song.
🔧 Tunings
Change the tuning and let Manouke calculate chord positions from the actual notes available.
🎹 Instrument-specific Chords
Display chord shapes designed for the instrument you are actually playing.
🎵 Chord Positions
Explore different positions of the same chord instead of being limited to a single diagram.
🥁 Rhythm & Tempo
Connect harmony with rhythm information and useful tempo settings.
🧩 ADAPT
Make the music fit your hands
Difficult chord? Wrong position? Different instrument? Manouke helps you find another way to play it.
🪶 Easy Chords
Find more playable chord shapes when the current position is uncomfortable or unnecessarily difficult.
🧠 Easy Harmonize
Simplify difficult harmony and explore a more accessible version without rebuilding the whole grille manually.
🎶 Manouche Chords
Explore voicings suited to gypsy jazz and manouche playing, including shapes often missing from general chord libraries.
↕ Alternative Positions
Explore different ways to play the same chord across the fretboard.
🔄 Instrument Conversion
Find corresponding chord shapes using the notes of the chord instead of simply copying a fingering from another instrument.
📍 Fretboard Range
Search for chord positions across the fretboard, including higher positions.
🥁 FEEL
Rhythm is part of the music too
A grille tells you what to play. Rhythm tells you how the music moves.
🥁 Rhythm Reader
Display practical rhythm patterns with structured notation for playing and strumming.
▶ Playback
Listen to rhythm patterns instead of reading only static notation.
⏱ Tempo
Work with patterns at the tempo that fits the song or your practice.
✏️ Rhythm Editor
Create and edit rhythm patterns using the same system used by the Rhythm Reader.
🎓 LEARN
Explore and practise
Small tools for understanding the music behind the grilles and improving your musical skills.
📘 Manouche Dictionary
Explore terms, expressions and vocabulary connected with gypsy jazz, musicians and manouche culture.
🎮 Time Signature Game
Test how quickly you can recognise different time signatures.
🏆 Leaderboard
Compare your results and try to improve your score.
✏️ CREATE
Build your own music workspace
Registered users can create content directly inside Manouke instead of being limited to a static library.
＋ Add Songs
Add songs to the Manouke library together with their musical and historical information.
＋ Create Grilles
Build chord grilles and create your own versions and arrangements.
🥁 Create Rhythms
Build structured rhythm patterns that can be displayed, edited and played back.
One song. Many ways to play it.
A song can be transposed, moved to another instrument, played in another tuning, simplified, given different chord positions or adapted with Manouche voicings.
The music stays the same — the way you play it does not have to.
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