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Learn 3 New Blues Turnarounds in 3 different keys – EP038

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I get requests from time for more examples of turnarounds so I thought I would put together another turnaround lesson to give you 3 new ones that can be transposed to any key. Also, if you haven’t already done so, be sure to check out the first guitar lesson on turnarounds that I did a few years ago. I have also included 3 jam tracks (each one in a different key) so that you can practice playing them in different positions on the neck. If the interest is there, I can make more turnaround lessons, giving even more examples.

Guitar Turnaround Number 1

Guitar Turnaround Number 2

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  1. RFY1760 says

    January 31, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    Great subject and I would support more lessons on this topic.  Turnarounds can really had a lot of variety to your playing!

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    • Bob L says

      January 17, 2016 at 2:30 am

      Great fun learning these turnarounds Brian. Inspirational. Your “asides” are alsointeresting, eg deviate slightly from the riff and we have a bit of Chuck Berry.

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  2. jwarpinski says

    January 31, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    Thanks Brian for these great turnarounds, especially the third one.

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  3. charleydelta says

    January 31, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    I also support MORE lessons on turnarounds.

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  4. LesPaul58 says

    January 31, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    MORE, please!

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  5. potneck says

    January 31, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    Excellent but teaser (a little bit loner)

     

     

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  6. StreakyPete says

    January 31, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    I struggled with the timimg a little on the 3rd turnaround, and almost gave up on it.  However, during a sudden coffee break, I ‘heard’ the lick in my head. Picking up my guitar, I nailed the thing on my next attempt!
    (Used this technique a lot during your lessons, but I find I’m going thru an awful lot of coffee these days..!)

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  7. Paul Yang says

    January 31, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    Hello Brian,
    Can you tell me the key on the turnaround NO.1?  G or E blues key? If the last chord is D7, I guess the key should be G.
    But the scale you used in this turnaround looks like cdE WE

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  8. Paul Yang says

    January 31, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    Sorry my final input words was wrong.
    I want to say:
    But the scale you used in turnaround No.1 looks like E key blues scale.

    Thank you Brian!

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  9. Brian says

    January 31, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    Paul, you can do that turn around in any key.  In the lesson I show you how to do it in the key of G - but hopefully through the videos in this lesson, you’ll know how to transpose it to whatever key you want 🙂

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  10. Steve56 says

    January 31, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    Has anyone been having problems playing turnaround 3, it keeps freezing a few second into the start then flashes a message with a playback fault

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  11. sunburst says

    June 29, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    excellent stuff,, i simply can’t turn around,, I must move forward and learn them all!

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  12. Filippo C says

    November 15, 2017 at 2:17 pm

    I love the second one!
    Thanks
    Filippo

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