What You Will Learn!
- Master the blues Turnaround
- Perform the blues turnaround with a backing track
- Play a blues turnaround in any key
- Expand your blues playing
Description
Welcome to this course in which we look at look at the subject called the Blues turnaround.
The majority of contemporary blues music is based on what is termed a 12-bar format. That is, the main body of a song follows a set pattern of chords over 12 bars of music that is repeated over and over. Some songs may have several different patterns to give them a bit of variety, but the guts of the song will normally be based on a set chord pattern for every 12 bars of music. So, if someone says to you, “play a 12-bar”, this is what they are referring to.
Let’s now start off with a standard 12-bar blues in its simplest form using the I, IV and V chords in the key of A in simple 4/4 time. It is 12 bars, or measures, long. Each measure lasts for 4 beats.
To break it down:
Measures 1-4 we play the I chord. Measures 5-6 we'll play the IV chord, measures 7-8 is back to the I chord, 9th measure the V chord, 10th measure is the IV chord, and in measures 11 and 12 we'll go back to the I chord. We'll find that the turnaround occurs in these last two measures.
In this course you will learn 20 great turarounds that can played over bars 11 & 12 in the Keys of E and A.
Who Should Attend!
- Guitarist looking to expand there blues playing and add great sounding ending or turnarounds to there 12 bar blues playing.