101 Blues Guitar Turnarounds Licks by Larry McCabe.pdf - Free download as PDF File (.pdf) or read online for free.
Ecuaciones diferenciales parciales aplicaciones pdf to doc. Chops: Intermediate Theory: Intermediate Lesson Overview: • Target specific chord tones throughout the turnaround. • Learn how create hybrid sounds by mixing scales and arpeggios.
• Use contrary motion to create more interesting phrases. You could describe a turnaround as a musical device that brings a tune back to the start, and while turnarounds are common in the jazz repertoire, they’re probably most associated with the end of a blues progression. The reason there’s so much discussion around this particular section of the tune might surprise you. A blues typically consists of dominant 7 chords.
Diatonically speaking, there’s only one dominant 7 chord in a given key, so technically a blues featuring just the I, IV, and V chords—if they’re played a 7ths—actually visits three different keys. But because these slight differences are spread out across 12 measures, you don’t really hear that these chords aren’t related.
When you reach the end of a blues progression, you’re potentially looking at two chords per measure. While the chords themselves sound fine to our ears after 100 years of exposure, some of the notes you might play over one chord can sound terrible over another.
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PHOTO: Cindy Moorhead Let’s be real for a second. If we were ranking cars by 0-60 acceleration times, or movies by numbers of tickets sold, we could easily come up with an indisputable Top 20 list. Blues turnarounds, however, are not so quantifiable. Winners exist solely in the ear of the beholder—that’s you. So while we can’t guarantee that the extensive collection of turnarounds that follows will prove to be your top 20 favorites, we have done everything possible to ensure the best chance that you will, at the very least, discover some inspiring new blues turnaround approaches. To that end, we have recruited renowned jazz guitarist Sid Jacobs to contribute insight and turnarounds of his own in these pages.
Remember: Few musical moments are as climactic as the final two measures (the “turnaround”) of a 12-bar blues. It’s during bar 11’s big, satisfying two-bar lead-up to the V chord at the end of bar 12 that you can make your strongest statement, so why not wrap up the cycle with a powerful closer?
With that in mind—spanning everything from bonehead-simple single-note lines to complex contrapuntal cadenzas—here are 20 turnarounds every pro guitarist should know. THE BLUES DESCENT The most common type of blues turnaround riff is one that employs the simple descending line in FIGURE 1. Starting on beat two of this lick’s opening bar (which, of course, is measure 11 in the 12-bar cycle), this chromatic descent drops you from the 7 to the 5 (D to B, here in the key of E), leading you straight to the V chord (B7). Tip: Most blues turnarounds (this one included) work equally well as intros, which is why you so often hear them used as two0bar pickups at the beginning of blues tunes.
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They also work as song endings, in which case the final chord is usually changed from the V to the I (for example, B7 becomes E7, in the key of E). “This little descending line,” says Jacobs, playing FIGURE 1, “is so universal, it transcends the blues. Once you begin studying music seriously, you start recognizing it everywhere, in great songs from every genre.” FIGURE 1.