- Blues Rhythm and Lead Guitar Lesson
- The Double Stop: A Blues Rhythm / Lead Guitar Lesson
- The Turnaround
- Create Your Own Fingerstyle Compositions On The Guitar
- Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson in the key of E
- B.B. King Guitar Lesson - Understanding His Approach
- Eric Clapton Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson - Part 2: Advanced
- Eric Clapton Rhythm Guitar Lesson
- Reggae Guitar Rhythm Lesson
- Keith Richards Style Rhythm Guitar Lesson
- Bo Diddley Style Rhythm Guitar Lesson
- Blues / Rock Rhythm Guitar Lesson (Key of A)
- Slow Blues Guitar Lesson - Just Guitar
- Play an Easy Guitar Solo with Just 2 Notes
- Albert King Blues Guitar Lesson
- Simple Lead Played in the Major Pentatonic Scale (Key of E)
- How To Create a Solo Using Only 3 Notes - Using Both Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales
- Understanding The Major and the Minor (Blues) Pentatonic Scales
- Simple Blues Guitar Lick - 1 (Chuck Berry Style)
- Mark Knopfler Style Guitar Lesson - Lead Guitar
- Eric Clapton Style Blues Guitar Lesson
- Robert Cray Blues Guitar Solo Lesson
- BB King Blues Guitar Lesson
- Steve Cropper Funk Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson
- Chet Atkins Fingerstyle Lesson: Very Basic
- Bending Strings: How To Bend Guitar Strings
- Beginner Guitar Course (FREE!)
This is a fairly simple lesson that demonstrates 3 different types of blues turnarounds. If you’re wondering what the heck a turnaround is, it’s what musicians refer to when they’re playing a few licks to get from the end of one verse to the beginning of the next. So in 12 bar blues for example, the turn around is the little riff that you play to get you from the 12th bar, back to the first bar. You’ll recognize it in the video right away because it’s such a familiar / even predictable sound. Even though I only show 3 turnarounds in this video, there are obviously a million different ways to play them. You’ll find that they’re very important to learn because you can just add them to your stockpile of guitar phrases to pull from, so that when it’s time for the turnaround, you’ll have a few options to choose from. Over time you’ll be able to just make them up on your own by playing the notes in the scale in a particular pattern.
Anyway, enough of the chatter, check out the video - it really says it all. Oh, I should also mention that there are no jam tracks or tablature with this lesson. I wanted to create something quickly and get it up on the site.
Hey Brian,
Nice to see you again with a cool video.
Best regards Arjen.
Good to see you back Brian. On your home page before we log in there is an introductory video that you do. It is not a lesson, I think it should be. Any chance you could turn this into a lesson?
Hi Brian!
Your lessons are fantastics!
I`m getting back to my guitars after many years and I think Activemelody is the best site to my starting over. Just great!
Many thanks!
JG Barone
Thanks for the lesson Brian. I have a question.
I’ve been playing around with the third turn around with a metronome. When am I supposed to start the turn around? To my ears it seems like you have to start this turn around on the ‘and’ of beat four in the 10th bar. Is this correct or am I just off rhythmically?
/A
Den.Andre - no it should just be on the one - so if you count, 1, 2, 3, 4, (start) - it starts right at the beginning of that 4 count (not on the and).
brian, this old abnd slow. i’;ve been studying your free videos and thanks for those. buti’m into acoustic blues along the deklta type blues.
my influences are lightnin’ hopkins and brownie mcghee. i’d love to see more lessons along those lines.
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