20 Great Blues Turnarounds

1. Course Introduction: Hi everyone. My name is Jeff sink and I am a professional guitar teacher. We've over 30 years of experience helping countless students realize their ambitions of playing the guitar. In this course, we will learn how to play a variety of blues turnaround, just like you heard me play then. And then the easy to follow format, which includes onscreen tablature. What am I doing that? Well, we're starting off on an A7 chord. Sum the one count. Now we have a series of triplets. What are we gonna be doing there? I'm playing? Now these classes are aimed at the beginner stroke intermediate player who has a basic understanding of the 12 bar blues chord progression. Now on completion of this class, you'll be able to complete a variety of turnarounds that will greatly improve your blues guitar playing. Allow you to play along with friends and with backing tracks. Really sound like they're professional blues guitarist we've heard over the years. Class includes 20 examples of the turnarounds in the key of E or a. Don't worry about music theory. To complete this class, just follow the information you do not require. Music theory as part of this curriculum. I'm outlining an E minor seven according game. I'm playing this 01. Then I'm playing the two strings. I got the 01 on the G to G. Then I go and open the E Street. Once you've completed the courses, use the backing tracks that I've included. Play along with them, get comfortable with them. Once you've done that, I'd like you to record yourself playing wherever it be on a video or just an audio file. Send it to me and I'll be able to evaluate your playing and pass on any recommendations or tips that could really improve what you've done so far. Well, let's get into it and let me show you how to master the art of the Blues turnaround. 2. Lets looks at some basic patterns: So exercise number ten is just a slight variation of exercise nine. So I'll just play it through and then we'll break it down very quickly. So it's the same shape because it gives us that kind of dominant cold chain as waves come, really works out well. But all I'm doing, I'm just taking it from the GB to the Yi. Dan. Dan again. Back to all exercise number ten. Exercise 11 goes like this. This one. I use the fingers mainly on it. You could actually play the entire line we fingers. So I could use my thumb. So platelets, low E. First of all, we're going to play 12. 12 be triplet. Move down to 11, triplet, triplet than I do a nine. So using the fingers. So that is number 11. Right now what we're going to do is look at the turnarounds in the key of a. Now we are going to look at turnaround space in the key of a. So let me just play you exercise number 12, and then I'll break it down. So it goes like this. What we're doing now the shift is gonna be from the ache on the one chord. The five chord, which is an E7. Nine. Ever you decide to play. So we start off with playing five on the Louis, or you could play the open a string. Then we play nine on the G to nine on the high E. Move down a French who played 888, **** 777. Now we're going to play the sixth fret on the G string. There's a cross to the atria, and we're going to play a five-six. Then into the name the seven on the G. Play that nicest law. Exercise, number 12. 3. Ascending and Descending: Exercise four goes like this. Size four goes like this. So an open E, or it could be D7. Now moving up to the de Champlain the sixth. And I'm also playing before on the B string. And then I'm going to play the high E, which is that triplet thing he's done a French are the 5.3. Move down against foreign to that same opening. Then I've got an E7, usual B9. So again, nice and slow. Really sad, as good as a closing statement on a blues. So if you come into the end of it, France finished plane, just doing that nice and slow, that really does sound good. Exercise number four. So exercise five and goes like this. The process while here we are running down a patent, still using our triplets after we've played an e at the beginning. But I gotta be playing out without swing feel on the e. So I get is two or constraints sliding in to D2 going to play it out to four times. But in the triplet, triplet that I'm going to play to zero down to the, to the B straight on the ASHRAE. I'm going to do one first fret open to the free on the law. Louis. So again, back to the EU. We got three on the lower eight. Open a backwards onto the five chord. We're moving up, so we've got a descending and ascending. So again, let me do that nice and slow. Exercise number five. Exercise number six goes like this. This is probably one of the easiest wants to play because the position of the fingers doesn't really change that much when we're doing this. We started off with an E seven chord. Finger is on second fingers on a two, and our first finger is down to strings by one on G. So all we gotta do for this one, we just move our fingers to the five and the four friends. And then we'll bring them back to the E7. Then I'll easy being a useful one. If you had a very up-tempo blues and you wanted to get into it very quick. Fingering never changes, so it doesn't allow you to get into that position very quickly. So that's exercise number six. 4. Playing lines with single notes: So let's have a look at Exercise number seven, which is again a note ascending, descending pattern, which goes like this. I start off with the two ys. Then I've got to play open a free for sure first triplet. Then we move across to the extreme. We are going to play 24 and crossover to the two on the D for your next cetera place. Then we go by to the four on the a string, to the two, and then dropped down to the three on the Louis Street within ISO kind of band given a nice loop with an assay to bend. So we get that we are too easy game. Then our usual platelet, nice and slow. Seven. Right? Let's check out exercise number right. Exercise number eight can be a little bit confusing when we playing this fruit, just the wage shifts on the fret board. So I'll play it through and then I'll break it down for you. So it goes like this. Goes like this. Right? Let me just walk through. We're going to start off again. These are all triplets for the first four counts. To plain open a, two to one the d, the opening. Now we're going to shift to the four on the E string, which will open D string. For again. Now, we've got five on the low E going to the four on the street and bike to the fire on the Louis. No legal to shift out to the first fret on the a string, going to the two on the D and back to the first fret to Louise. Way of ending. So let me just do that a little bit slow. Exercise number eight, right? Let's have a look at Exercise number nine, and it goes on like this. So what I'm doing now, I'm opening with the low E string. Then I'm playing for on the G3, on the beach, the opening Sri. Moving on, doing for free to the two, cross the GMB with the open E string. Let me down one for again. So we're doing two wall to the open E string. Then I've got a quick hammer onto the first fret on the G. And then it's back to the a string. And we doing 012. That is exercise number nine. 5. Playing with familiar shapes: So exercise number ten is just a slight variation of exercise nine. So I'll just play it through and then we'll break it down very quickly. So it's the same shape because it gives us that kind of dominant cold chain as waves become really works out well. But all I'm doing, I'm just taking it from the GB to the Yi. Dan. Dan again. Back to our exercise number ten. Exercise 11 goes like this. Now, this one, I used the fingers mainly on it. You could actually play the entire line we fingers. So I could use my thumb. So platelets, low E. First of all, we're going to play 12. 12 be triplet. Move down to 11, triplet. Triplet than I do at nine. So using the fingers. So that is number 11. Right? Now what we're going to do is look at the turnaround in the key of a. Now we are going to look at turnaround space in the key of a. So let me just play you exercise number 12, and then I'll break it down. So it goes like this. What we're doing now the shift is gonna be from the ache on the one chord. The five chord, which is an E7. Nine. Ever you decide to play. So we start off with playing five on the Louis, or you could play the open a string. Then we play nine on the G to nine on the high E. Again. Move down a French who played 888, **** 777. Now we're going to play the sixth fret on the G string. There's a cross to the atria, and we're going to play a five-six. Then into the name the seven on the G. Play that nicest law. Exercise, number 12. 6. Now in the Key of A: Example number 13 goes like this, right? So what are we doing that again, opening up with a seven. Then we're going to play five on the bead. Nice little slide into that. To five on the high E, back again to the file. Then we move down to the four on the beat, to the five and the high eat for free on the B to the five, on the high, E to the two. And then on the D string we got 12, again, bringing us back to the e. So that's number 30, high exercise 14, a little bit of shift here, back onto the finger again. I'll just play through and again I'll just break it down. So it goes like this. So usual A7. Then we're going to play five on the D, five on the high E string. Then we play the E again on high E string. Then we're shifting down to the four on the D string with the five on the high E string again, shrinking again down to the three and the five on the high E. Then we've got two on the deed to the five. Just going to do my usual which is the F9 to the E9, started shift between the peak and the fingers. So you saw me that I was just using the fingers just to play that final cause. You don't have to dash bike to the pig to play that example. 7. Applying across octaves: Hi, exercise 15. Been playing in the lower register on the guitar. So let me just play it through and then I'll break you down. We do in our usual A7. Then I'm going to play a four on the a string to the seven. We got to keep going back to the seven on the D string. So we're playing moving up to the 576 to seven to 77. Then I'll usual. Right. Let's go and check out exercises 16. Okay, exercise 16, very similar to what reduce been playing, but we moving into a higher octave. So I'll just play it through and again, break it down for you. Starts off the same as usual. There's been a seven. Now I'm going to play two on the B string, and I'm going to pedaling it across five on the high E string. So we gave hope to the three on the beat. Four to five. Shrink. And then thing with ice, when you play both these is deciding what your fingers are going to do. Are you going to use individual fingers or are you going to move it on? So decision that you're going to have to make whichever suits your plane. Right? Let's move on. Right? Let's have a look at exercise 17, which goes like this. Doing their usual seven. Now, I'm going to be moving go by, sliding into the nine on the G, Going to the aids on the B. So I'm playing 87. And again a play 76, playing the six on the B, six on the G. Then across to the a string 567. Right? That was exercises 17. 8. Single notes and bends: Okay, a little bit different. This one for Exercise, 18 more being played on the notes. So it goes like this. What I'm doing, I started off on the eighth fret on the B struggle full tone bend to the five on the E that I'm bind to an eight on the B5 and Hawaii by today. And I do a 757657 double stub, two fives, B and E. Then I've got this little line here. I'm doing that quick hammer on from the five to the six on the G string to the seven on the D. Five on the be. Finishing on several fronts on the exit ticket to the game. Exercise 18. Okay. Slightly different. Again on this one, heavily on the normal basis for this for exercise 19. And it goes like this. So usual A7. And I'm going to play a six on the G to the seven on the D, back to the six. Then I go to Place seven on the G to the six of the G binds to the seventh. Then I'm going to do 878 on the GI, finishing up on the nine on the gene. And then I'll use F9, E9, right? Final one, exercise and number 20. So Exercise 20 goes like this. I'm playing there. I've got my usual A7. Now, I gotta be pedaling backwards and forwards to the seven on the D string, but I do attend first on the a. Then I've got 979878. Then the seven double stops, seven on the D and seven on the artist. Several da. Then your F9. This way you're pedaling backwards and forwards. You can even move the fingers down or you can do what I do is just using individual fingers. Or you can, again, the choice is yours, what you want to do with them. So that was the final one. That is Exercise 20.