Chords for Learn Blues Turnaround as an Intro and Outro | Blues Guitar Lessons

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tip of the week.
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_ Let's check out that tip of the week. _
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_ [C] _ This week's tip is using lift offs when making chord transitions.
_ So for instance, what I'm [N] talking about guys is a way that will help you switch chords
a little bit easier and we're going to use the last up strum of your strum pattern to do that.
So let's take a few chords here for instance, let's take C, F, G and C.
And then I'm just going to strum it with [C] a down, _ down, down, up.
Like that kind of strum.
So one, two, three, [Em] four.
And the last up strum is going to be on the open string.
So what that's going to do is allow me an extra half second of time to switch to the
next chord without breaking the beat.
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_ We always want it to sound rhythmically in time and even though we're doing an up stroke
on open strings, it actually doesn't sound that bad.
When you play it confidently and with authority, it's a great way to move from chord to chord.
I hear a lot of guitar players, especially acoustic guitar players, when they're switching
chords to use this technique regardless _ of whether they're aware of it or not.
So if we were to not do the lift offs, sometimes the chords might sound a little forced _ _
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I'm not giving myself enough time to switch to the next chord.
By doing the lift off, you get rid of those little gaps between the [C] chords and you just
keep the tempo or the right hand moving.
_ _ _ [Em] Lift [F] off. _
_ [G] Lift off.
_ _ Lift [C] off.
_ _ [D] So try to incorporate the lift off whenever you're switching chords and that will help
your switching and the chord transitions help to make them sound a lot more smooth and even.
Now let's check out the lesson of the week.
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_ _ _ _ _ This week's lesson, we're going to talk about using a blues turnaround _ to start and end
a blues song.
Typically, we hear a turnaround in the middle of a blues tune that wraps around and takes
you back to the beginning of the 12 bar progression.
But believe it or not, you can also use a turnaround to start your song and to end it.
Let's check it out.
So usually, the turnaround, a typical one we hear would be this.
_ [Ab] _ [G] _ _
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And what we're [A] doing there, if we're in the key of A for this one, we're doing a little
walk down on the third and first string, _ picking the [Em] third, then the first, [Eb] then the third
string, [Ab] _ doing the same thing in the eighth [G] fret, doing the same thing in the seventh
fret, and then back to the sixth fret on the third string, [A] fifth on the first string, and
play them together.
Carefully mute the second string so it doesn't ring.
And then we play an F9 _ _ _ [Ab] to an E9 chord.
_ And that sets you up.
That actually ends on what they call the five chord [E] in the key of A.
That sets you up to
go into the A chord for the [G] next part [A] of the song. _ _ _ _ _
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[A] Like that.
So if we were to hear the turnaround to start the song, it would be in this context.
You'd hear one, two, three, four, one, two, [Ab] three, [A] four, one, [Ab] two, three, four.
Here we go.
[A] _ _ Now the song's in.
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_ _ _ _ It [A] sounds kind of cool, and it's a very musical way of starting off your song rather than
just counting in one, two, three, four, and then start _ the rhythm.
That doesn't sound bad, but putting that little turnaround at the front, it just kind of spices
up and makes it sound a little more musical.
Now let's check out the ending, _ using it [F] to end the song.
It's actually the same _ turnaround, but instead of ending on [Ab] _ the five [Cm] chord, a half step above
the five chord, the F9 [Ab] to the five chord, that always leaves your ear wanting to hear
the next part or hear the next cycle.
_ But if we're going to end it, we're actually going to do the turnaround lick [Ab] and _ _
[A] _ _ [Bb] then go
to the one chord or the A7, but start at a half step above.
So it's a [A] Bb7, and then we tuck it back to the A7.
So let's check out what it sounds like for the end of the song.
Two, three, four, one.
Two, three, [G] four, [B] one.
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_ Right on.
So when you hear that at the end, that tells me, tells you, tells everybody else that we're
done, the song's over.
Okay, so there you go.
A great turnaround, great blues turnaround, using _ [Bb] _ basically a half step above the one
chord [A] to end it, or [Cm] a half step above the five chord _ to cycle you around back to the
top of the progression and [D] repeat it.
_ And this actually works with pretty much any blues turnaround.
You could plug in any other blues turnaround and get the same result.
Just for kicks, I might go like this.
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[F] _ _ [Ab] Hear that turnaround?
That sounds like we're going to play the, that was the intro, [E] now we're playing the song.
If I do the same lick, end it on the _ Bb to the A7, it sounds like we're done [C] with the song. _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _ _
Nice.
That definitely sounds like the ending.
_ [E] So there you go.
Work on that, take your time with it, learn the turnaround, experiment with other turnarounds,
and then all you got to remember is that the last two chords are either the five chord
to wrap it up, take you back to the top as an intro of the song, or end on the one chord
to end the song.
There you go.
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