Turnarounds (Blues Rhythm Guitar - Guitar Lesson BL-209) How to play
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0:05 - 0:07Hi, how'ya doing? Justin here.
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0:07 - 0:10Welcome to lesson 9
of the Blues Rhythm guitar series -
0:10 - 0:13and in this lesson today,
we are going to be talking about turnarounds. -
0:13 - 0:17Now a turnaround is the last two bars
of a twelve bar blues -
0:17 - 0:19and there are a lots different kind
of chord progressions -
0:19 - 0:23you can use to turn the song around
so it goes around again. -
0:23 - 0:25Now sometimes it is predetermined
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0:25 - 0:29so specific songs have a particular turnaround
that it is being used -
0:29 - 0:30that happens most times.
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0:30 - 0:32Other times the band kinda get together
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0:32 - 0:34and decide "Hey, on this song
we are gonna use this." -
0:34 - 0:38On other times if it is a bit on the fly
you have to be listening out to the bass player -
0:38 - 0:40or the bass player has to be listening to you
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0:40 - 0:42to try and suss out
what turnaround is gonna happen. -
0:42 - 0:45It is a lot more fun
when it's kind of a bit more up in the air -
0:45 - 0:46and you don't know what's going to happen
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0:46 - 0:49it can make for some interesting notes happening
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0:49 - 0:52but if you are aware of all of the different turnarounds
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0:52 - 0:56you'll probably start to pick up
"Oh, it feels like it's gonna be this one!" -
0:56 - 0:57or "it sounds like", or
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0:57 - 1:00"the first chord is this one
so it's gotta be this particular turnaround." -
1:00 - 1:02So that's the idea here.
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1:02 - 1:05For the backing track,
I have picked five of the common turnarounds -
1:05 - 1:08and done them in succession. So
I'm going to show you those five first, -
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now I'm going to show you
some others as well, -
1:10 - 1:12just in a close up and show you some different ways
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1:12 - 1:13that you might approach playing them.
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1:13 - 1:17As part of the Blues Lead Guitar course
there's also a lesson on turnarounds, -
1:17 - 1:22because very often the turnaround is hosted
by the lead guitar player. -
1:22 - 1:26They play the melodic part that really says,
"Yeah, we're going to turnaround all", -
1:26 - 1:27"Yeah, we're gonna end the tune."
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1:27 - 1:30So it's important to check that
lesson out as well. -
1:30 - 1:33And be aware that sometimes
there isn't a turnaround as well, -
1:33 - 1:37there are quite a few tunes with the blues chord sequences I call the Long One,
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1:37 - 1:41which is where the last two bars
of a 12 bar blues sequence -
1:41 - 1:43just play the 1 chord for the whole two bars.
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1:43 - 1:48In that case it's usually down to the drummer
to make some sort of fill thing that says, -
1:48 - 1:51"Hey, we're finishing the tune
and going back around again" -
1:51 - 1:53It's quite often that that happens.
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1:53 - 1:57Don't think that it's uncommon for there
to be not a turnaround. -
1:57 - 1:59It is probably more common
for there to be one, -
1:59 - 2:01and that's why we're gonna do this lesson.
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2:01 - 2:02That's enough rambling from me,
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2:02 - 2:05let's get to a close up
and check out how to play some. -
2:05 - 2:09The lesson today is going to be based in the
key of D. So just to refresh your memory -
2:09 - 2:12we've got D here, is the 1 chord,
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2:12 - 2:15G at the third fret there is the 4 chord,
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2:15 - 2:19and A at the 5th fret - 6th string
root of course - is the 5 chord. -
2:19 - 2:28♪
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2:28 - 2:30Just playing through a regular blues.
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2:30 - 2:32♪
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2:32 - 2:35Just so you're 100% sure
where the turnaround is. -
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2:38 - 2:41There's the bit with the 5 chord.
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2:41 - 2:43♪
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2:43 - 2:45To the 4 chord.
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2:45 - 2:47♪
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2:47 - 2:51And now is where the turnaround is.
What I'm going to be showing you now -
2:51 - 2:56are things to go at this point in the blues.
The last two bars of a 12 bar blues. -
2:56 - 3:03One of the most common is just to put the
5 chord at the end for two beats. -
3:03 - 3:10So we'd have
1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, & 3 & 4, & 1. -
3:10 - 3:13Just literally that & 4 & 1.
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3:13 - 3:17Again, the last two bars
of the Blues in D, 3 4, -
3:17 - 3:23is D 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4.
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3:23 - 3:29So it can just move over just for those
last two beats of the whole sequence, -
3:29 - 3:30just moves over to the 5 chord,
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3:30 - 3:32then we're back to the 1 chord, right away
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3:32 - 3:36This is really common, particularly
like earlier Blues stuff, -
3:36 - 3:39it's more common than any other one.
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3:39 - 3:41So, be aware of that one first of all.
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3:41 - 3:47Now the second one in our sequence for
the backing track, is a little climb-up. -
3:47 - 3:52Which is again really popular, it happens
in the second bar of our two bar sequence. -
3:52 - 3:56So we have one bar of D,
the second bar goes -
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3:57 - 4:01I'm sure you've heard that before, it's a
really common little sequence again. -
4:01 - 4:071 2 3 4 1 & 2 & 3 4
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4:07 - 4:131 2 3 4 1 & 2 & 3 4
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4:13 - 4:17It doesn't always have to be with the chunka-chunka thing, by the way, it could be:
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4:17 - 4:21♪
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4:21 - 4:22It could use:
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4:25 - 4:27That was a little 9th chord.
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4:27 - 4:31You can do all sorts of things, I'm just
using a chunka-chunka as an example. -
4:31 - 4:34But you could use any
different type of sequence -
4:34 - 4:36that we've been looking at
so far to get: -
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4:38 - 4:41is a little two note there,
if you want: -
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4:45 - 4:51There's really infinite number of ways of using each of these different things.
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4:51 - 4:54That's the one I normally call it the climb,
and we're going to put a climb at the end -
4:54 - 4:58in the turnaround, would be the kind of thing
that you'd ask your bass player. -
4:58 - 5:00So that would be a little climb.
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5:00 - 5:06Now the 3rd one we've got here
is a variation on the two really, where we go: -
5:06 - 5:081
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5:08 - 5:094
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5:09 - 5:111
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5:11 - 5:135
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5:13 - 5:14And then we starting the sequence again.
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5:14 - 5:19This is a very common little sequence.
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5:19 - 5:191
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5:19 - 5:204
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5:20 - 5:221
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5:22 - 5:235
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5:23 - 5:24Could be played.
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5:24 - 5:29♪
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5:29 - 5:29or
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5:29 - 5:37♪
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5:37 - 5:39Again, loads of different ways.
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5:39 - 5:45♪
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5:45 - 5:47All the same thing, just as long as it's
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5:47 - 5:481
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5:48 - 5:494
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5:49 - 5:501
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5:50 - 5:515
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5:51 - 5:54I'd recommend most of these runs just doing a regular chunka-chunka.
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5:56 - 5:58Just to get used to
what the chord changes are. -
5:58 - 6:01It's a nice easy way of
looking at it to start off with, -
6:01 - 6:05then worry about jazzing all of the chords up,
if you like that kind of style. -
6:05 - 6:11So the next one, which is number 4,
is what's called a 1, 6, 2, 5. -
6:11 - 6:15Again this has kind of got it's roots in Jazz,
I guess. You kind of get this: -
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6:19 - 6:22This kind of effect, but it does happen
even in a chunka-chunka: -
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6:30 - 6:34It does happen like that,
using a regular kind of Blues progressions. -
6:34 - 6:39So this one, whether it is the
1, 6, 2, 5 of the scale. -
6:39 - 6:44Now you know that
our Blues so far is just 1, 4, and 5. -
6:44 - 6:50If that's 4, 5, there's 6. If that's 1, there's 2.
So that's where you can think: -
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6:55 - 7:03♪
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7:03 - 7:06And again, make sure that you check out,-
I'm sure you're going to already, 'cause I know -
7:06 - 7:08that you're conscientious about
making sure that you'll get -
7:08 - 7:11everything with your 5th string root and 6th string root, aren't you?
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7:11 - 7:14So make sure that you figure out where
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7:15 - 7:162
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7:17 - 7:19Is going to be if we started up here.
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7:21 - 7:222
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7:22 - 7:235
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7:23 - 7:24or 1
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7:27 - 7:291
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7:29 - 7:30Hey, might recognize
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7:30 - 7:34♪
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7:34 - 7:38That I talked about in the little lesson that where we looked at the little mini grips.
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7:38 - 7:44That's another really common sequence that you might want to try out.
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7:44 - 7:49And the last one I'm showing you is a 1, flat 3, to flat 2 sequence.
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7:49 - 7:54Which is a chromatic thing, there's some fancier reasons to do with chord substitutions,
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7:54 - 7:56that we can get into at another time,
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7:56 - 8:01but for now I think you should just keep it simple and playing,
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8:01 - 8:021
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8:02 - 8:04move up three frets
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8:04 - 8:06back
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8:06 - 8:07back 1
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8:07 - 8:09and then we're back at the middle.
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8:09 - 8:10And you can use either chord.
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8:10 - 8:18♪
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8:18 - 8:20That kind of thing if you're doing it in chords. Or it could be
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8:20 - 8:27♪
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8:27 - 8:31It can be chunka-chunka, all of these things, they can be fancy chords,
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8:31 - 8:36or they can be a regular power chord chunka-chunka thing, whatever you want to do.
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8:36 - 8:42It's important you explore all of those different ideas, it's not just one thing or the other.
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8:42 - 8:45So that's all of the ones that are used on the backing track.
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8:45 - 8:48Remember, there are charts on the web site which will help you remember
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8:48 - 8:52the order of them on the backing track, and exactly what chords are in what ones.
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8:52 - 8:54So I'd highly recommend that you go to the web site and check that out,
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8:54 - 8:56it really will make life a lot easier for you.
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8:56 - 8:59There are some other kind of turnarounds that are pretty common,
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8:59 - 9:03and sound pretty cool, I couldn't fit them all on the backing track, so
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9:03 - 9:07I thought I'd show them to you anyway and you can apply them to other backing tracks
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9:07 - 9:10from this series, or just jam around with them with your mates or whatever.
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9:10 - 9:15So the first one is kind of this descending line, often played by a bass player,
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9:15 - 9:19but it sounds pretty cool on guitar as well. It's just these notes.
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9:19 - 9:28♪
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9:28 - 9:30You can play it as power chords as well, if you like.
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9:30 - 9:33What we're doing is starting
with the root note. -
9:33 - 9:38Moving down a tone. And then chromatically down to the 5 chord.
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9:38 - 9:41Which in this key is the key of A.
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9:41 - 9:43I know you're gonna do your homework and transfer it over to the
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9:43 - 9:466th string root stuff as well,
and figure out how to play each one. -
9:46 - 9:49Of course you could move down a tone,
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9:49 - 9:56but move to the C here.
So from C to D, instead go D to C. -
9:56 - 10:00♪
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10:00 - 10:04This is a really common little sequence.
Like I said, often the guitar will just do this. -
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10:06 - 10:07And the bass player will have the,
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10:07 - 10:12bum, bum, bah, bah, bumpa, bumpa
that kind of thing. -
10:12 - 10:14I think it's a cool
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10:14 - 10:19♪
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10:19 - 10:23So that's the first one of the extras.
Now the second one is just playing the chord. -
10:23 - 10:26Now I know it's like, "What do you mean?
That's pretty easy." -
10:26 - 10:28But if you get like a real:
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10:28 - 10:31♪
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10:31 - 10:35Often if it's a chunka-chunka chunka thing, a chunka-chunka chunka-chunka,
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10:35 - 10:37you've got an to extra chunka in there.
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10:37 - 10:39If you're doing this kind of thing
and it gets to the 5 chord, -
10:39 - 10:43you don't always want to
keep going with your chunkas. -
10:43 - 10:46You might want to just end up
playing the chord. -
10:46 - 10:49As I'm going to do when we get
to the chunkas on this bit. -
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10:52 - 10:53Here you
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10:53 - 10:57♪
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10:57 - 10:59Just for that one bit.
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10:59 - 11:02♪
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11:02 - 11:05Going to the full chord. If you've got a fifth string root,
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11:05 - 11:06you might use a 9th chord, or
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11:06 - 11:08might've used the 9th
chord here with the 6th string root. -
11:08 - 11:11Up to you of course, and that's
part of the game, it's your choice. -
11:11 - 11:15But I think it's important to realize that
can be a valid turnaround, -
11:15 - 11:18just switching from doing this kind of thing.
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11:18 - 11:22♪
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11:22 - 11:26To bit of a strummy thing on a chord,
it can sound pretty funky, I reckon. -
11:26 - 11:28That's a good one.
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11:28 - 11:34Now the next one I'm going to show you is
related to this line going down. -
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11:42 - 11:44Because often the bass will go up.
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11:44 - 11:51♪
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11:51 - 11:53And this is what I was going to show you.
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11:53 - 11:56♪
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11:56 - 11:58Just because I think it sounds cool.
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12:02 - 12:04From the D.
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12:05 - 12:052
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12:05 - 12:063
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12:06 - 12:074
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12:07 - 12:081
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12:08 - 12:10And then we're on the A.
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12:10 - 12:10♪
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12:10 - 12:12D
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12:12 - 12:15So we've just got our first finger
on the 4th fret, -
12:15 - 12:17little finger on the 7th fret,
which is the root note. -
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12:20 - 12:22Use whatever fingers you like there,
it doesn't... -
12:22 - 12:26seams to be that I changed
depending on what day it is. -
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12:28 - 12:29Experiment with that.
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12:29 - 12:32Of course if you use your little finger on the root note
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12:32 - 12:34the same idea will work fine up here.
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12:34 - 12:37♪
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12:37 - 12:37So you could have.
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12:37 - 12:44♪
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12:44 - 12:46You can have it up there too.
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12:46 - 12:53♪
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12:53 - 12:55So I think that's a pretty funky little number.
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12:55 - 12:59A little more interesting than the standard one.
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12:59 - 13:01There's one even more interesting idea
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13:01 - 13:04that I'm gonna share with you
on this to explore on your own. -
13:04 - 13:11But the last one I want to go through
with you properly is a sharp 5 to the 5. -
13:11 - 13:12Which is a real common . . .
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13:12 - 13:20♪
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13:20 - 13:27Again, just doing a chord, and moving it from the 5 chord and moving up one fret
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13:27 - 13:28♪
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13:28 - 13:29and back down again.
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13:29 - 13:35♪
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13:35 - 13:37And off you go.
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13:37 - 13:43Now the last idea is quite a biggie, and I just want to explain the idea to you,
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13:43 - 13:46and then let you run around with it a little bit.
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13:46 - 13:49The first thing is to realize that we had
this descending line, -
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13:53 - 13:56Which worked in the turnaround
to get to A7. -
13:56 - 13:57Then we also saw that we had,
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14:01 - 14:04this ascending line. But what would
happen if you did the two together? -
14:04 - 14:07So if you're here, one went up,
one went down, -
14:07 - 14:10and then this one continues going down,
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14:10 - 14:16this one continues going up,
and that one continues going up, -
14:16 - 14:19we end up with this really cool idea
called contrary motion. -
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14:25 - 14:29And this idea is a real funky one.
There's one of my favorite little pet licks for -
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14:32 - 14:32One going down,
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14:32 - 14:34♪
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14:34 - 14:35one going up.
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14:35 - 14:41♪
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14:41 - 14:43I really like the sound of that.
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14:43 - 14:46Just as a little idea, why don't you see how many different ways
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14:46 - 14:49you can figure out of playing this. Having one line going down,
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14:49 - 14:51which would be the notes
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14:51 - 14:51D
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14:51 - 14:52C
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14:52 - 14:53B
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14:53 - 14:54B flat
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14:54 - 14:56Leading to A
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14:56 - 14:57and the other one going
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14:57 - 14:57D
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14:57 - 14:59up to F sharp
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14:59 - 15:00G
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15:00 - 15:01G sharp
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15:01 - 15:02A
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15:02 - 15:05It's just a fun little game for yourselves to play
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15:05 - 15:09♪
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15:09 - 15:13as a little exercise on the guitar, it could keep you occupied for an afternoon,
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15:13 - 15:17and give you some really cool fun licks.
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15:17 - 15:20Like with nearly everything on guitar the most important thing here is to put it into practice.
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15:20 - 15:23So make sure that you muck around with each of the different turnarounds,
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15:23 - 15:28get as many of them as you can to memory, and most importantly, make sure you can play
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15:28 - 15:30all of the ones that I'd shown you
with the sixth string root. -
15:30 - 15:33At the moment we've done all of them with the fifth string root,
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15:33 - 15:36I'm not going to show you the sixth string root ones. I want you to try to figure them all out.
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15:36 - 15:41It's not difficult, and if it is difficult, you need to sort it out, and make sure
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15:41 - 15:43that you learn how to do it,
so it's not difficult any more. -
15:43 - 15:47It's something I think it's an essential
bit of your knowledge -
15:47 - 15:49that you need to fill in,
if you can't do that. -
15:49 - 15:54And the other really important thing to do at this stage as well is to listen to some blues,
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15:54 - 15:56and make sure you can
spot the different turnarounds. -
15:56 - 15:59Get some great blues records that you like,
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15:59 - 16:02some Muddy Waters, or Stones,
or Howlin' Wolf, or whatever, -
16:02 - 16:04and check out the different turnarounds
and suss out and go: -
16:04 - 16:06"Oh, he's used that turnaround there."
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16:06 - 16:09And then see if they do the same turnaround through the whole song,
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16:09 - 16:11and does it make it part of the song?
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16:11 - 16:14That's a really good way of developing your repertoire a bit, and making sure,
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16:14 - 16:19you learn the correct chord progressions for each different 12 bar blues.
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16:19 - 16:22Because when I was growing up I always just thought: "oh, it's a 12 bar blues"
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16:22 - 16:24and they're all the same
and you can do what you like. -
16:24 - 16:28But as I studied a bit more, I found
that's not the case at all. -
16:28 - 16:32They are quite distinct, and the guys that caught them real good, whether it'is
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16:32 - 16:35Stevie Ray Vaughn, or The Rolling Stones,
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16:35 - 16:39or whatever, any of the more modern
"white" guitar players. -
16:39 - 16:44If you listen to them play older songs, you hear that they've really absorbed it properly.
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16:44 - 16:48They've learned exactly what the chord progressions are and the right way it was played.
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16:48 - 16:53Probably my favorite example is The Rolling Stones playing Little Red Rooster.
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16:53 - 16:57If you find the original version of that one, which I believe is a Howlin' Wolf one,
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16:57 - 17:00there's a mistake in the chord,
where the bass doesn't -
17:00 - 17:03go to the chord at the same time, and then the whole band jumps over.
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17:03 - 17:05And they've copied that in their version.
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17:05 - 17:11I just thought it was a mistake, but it wasn't and they've copied it, and they've learned it really well.
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17:11 - 17:16So let me play you out with a backing track, and remember the chart is on the web site,
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17:16 - 17:18that's going to make it
a lot easier for you if you use that. -
17:18 - 17:21And I'll see you for another lesson very soon.
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17:21 - 17:23Take care of yourselves.
Bye bye.
- Title:
- Turnarounds (Blues Rhythm Guitar - Guitar Lesson BL-209) How to play
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This 9th guitar lesson in the blues rhythm guitar series looks at how to play turnarounds!
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- Video Language:
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