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11-11-2008, 03:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Georgia | | | Blues Turnarounds
The thread on Walking Blues got me to thinking about the turnarounds. Upon haring myself play for several years I discovered I have three stock turn arounds that I use (particularlly on a twelve bar). I start on the one and walk chromaticlly from three to five, I use a line that sounds like a bastardized 'I'm Into Something Good' (Hermen's Hermits) melody, or If it fits I do the Rhythm Changes. What are some of your stock turnarounds? I need something new to steal...I mean be inspired by.
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11-11-2008, 05:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: U.K. | | | When playing in G I can't help using an altered scale over the D (V) on the turnaround, D, D#, G#, G, C, Bb, A, G and then onto the C (IV) as a dom7, C, E, F, F#, G, A, Bb, B, C and then back to root again as a dom7 G , B, C, Db, D, E, F, G, D. I'll add extra passing chromatic tones as 16th notes depending how I feel. Often gets a "look" from guitarists with little jazz harmony knowledge though. Nothing fancy really except on the V.
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11-11-2008, 05:59 AM
|  | Real Basses Have 5 Strings! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Colorado | | | Blues is about playing with feeling and it is about improvization ... play around and come up with variations ... |
11-11-2008, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Ric5  Blues is about playing with feeling and it is about improvization | Oh I got the bluze...
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"The opportunity was there...but it never presented itself." Phil Urso, 1980. :atoz:
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11-11-2008, 08:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Princeville, Kauai | | So many turnarounds and subs.....so little time 
1. Teenagers cannot have the Blues. They ain't fixn to die. Adults play the Blues. In Blues, adulthood means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
2. Blues is not a matter of color. It is a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot have the blues. Sonny Liston could have the blues.
3. I don't care how tragic your life is or may have been, if you own a computer, you cannot have the Blues. 
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11-11-2008, 08:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago | | | Trey man. That response kills me. Coffee sprayed out of my nose when you wrote it in the other thread and it did again. Nice caffeine buzz though.
You owe me a computer so I can stave off the blues. |
11-11-2008, 09:03 AM
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11-11-2008, 01:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Princeville, Kauai | | | The Bluze
Marc:"Trey man. That response kills me. Coffee sprayed out of my nose when you wrote it in the other thread and it did again. Nice caffeine buzz though.
You owe me a computer so I can stave off the blues."
Just trying to hold my end up and keep it interesting! Seriously, there is so much info to convey, how would you do it online in a short post? I have no idea, therefore I resort to humor....
Marc just visited your web site for the first time. It's very cool 
Also I believe that this is the first time I've ever heard a song by Madonna that i didn't want to hurl. Love the 7. bet that turns a few heads. Always nice to see people try to dance in 7! 
Finally...the 2nd tune really drew me in. I'm a sucker for those ostinato bass lines and it's just really well done. Great Job
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11-11-2008, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Treyzer In Blues, adulthood means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis. | "Walkin the mile, walkin' the mile.... oh lordy I'm SOOOO sorry"--Harry Dean Stanton as the death row janitor in "The Green Mile"
Best blues walk and turnaround ever. Quote:
Originally Posted by Treyzer Always nice to see people try to dance in 7! Trey | TreyMan, they ain't got any waves in Bulgaria. Instead of surfing, they developed local dances. Dancing in seven is a beautiful thing, and not uncommon. How about one of those Watermen dancing in 13 while navigating "Jaws" on Maui! That would be something to behold. I don't doubt that they could, either! |
11-11-2008, 02:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Princeville, Kauai | | | Dancing in 7
Mr.PC: "TreyMan, they ain't got any waves in Bulgaria. Instead of surfing, they developed local dances. Dancing in seven is a beautiful thing, and not uncommon. How about one of those Watermen dancing in 13 while navigating "Jaws" on Maui! That would be something to behold. I don't doubt that they could, either!"
Yeah some of those folk dances in odd times are a thing to behold!
Not to get to corny, but for me, surfing is dancing. It is also total improvisation. No two waves are exactly alike. Each does something different and you adapt and react. The better you are, the more you've practiced, the more skill you have to deal with any situation! Big waves are the rush of a lifetime! Although I don't ride them with faces anywhere near 40 to 50 feet. Every year I get a bit older and slower and I make a pledge to the wife that I won't go out on big days. This pledge typically lasts till about December! Ha maybe this year will be different!
I know this is a dorky question, but how do you get those nice little quote boxes aroun d something you've copied? I'm still in learning mode 
Happy Veterans Day
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11-11-2008, 03:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago | | | Thanks Trey. |
11-11-2008, 04:42 PM
| | | how do you get those nice little quote boxes aroun d something you've copied? I'm still in learning mode Happy Veterans Day [/quote]
Well dig, uhh, I guess'n I haint got no bluz no mo' causin' I gotz dis conputin' thang dat doz it all fer me. Hangee me if yez can, by gollee! Itza alla 'bout da 0 an de 1, I reckons.
Yeah, I been reading Victor's music book at the reko of Mr. Fingers! |
11-11-2008, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by MR PC Yeah, I been reading Victor's music book at the reko of Mr. Fingers! | Pretty wild **** eh? |
11-11-2008, 05:59 PM
| | | | Yes, it's a wonderful book. Victor was very wise to keep stating that even HE isn't sure if the events really happened. Either way, it doesn't matter. Very creative man, love him very much, I'd like to meet him.
Tom Brown Jr. wrote a book called "Grandfather" that I found much less convincing, though Tom is a Master and an amazing guy for sure! Without him, I doubt that Victor would be doing what he's doing now.
Loved the description that Micheal had of the blues in Victor's book, since I play alot of blues myself. |
11-11-2008, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Treyzer I know this is a dorky question, but how do you get those nice little quote boxes aroun d something you've copied? I'm still in learning mode | See the little box down to your right that says "Quote "???
Come to the Mainland Trey....your brain need some air.
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11-11-2008, 06:32 PM
| | Real Basses Have 5 Strings! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Colorado | | | I got the I want more basses blues! |
11-11-2008, 06:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: ST Pete Florida | | | I do the danna dan danna dan da dan thing |
11-11-2008, 07:03 PM
|  | Love your craft, stay humble, enjoy the journey | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Boston Massachusetts | | | Listen to some early jazz blues. Some I like are 1,6,2,5, 1,b3, 2, b2, 1,b3,2,5
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11-11-2008, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton See the little box down to your right that says "Quote "??? | Hey thanks PDub, I've been wondering how the cool kids do it! |
11-11-2008, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton See the little box down to your right that says "Quote "??? | Yes, my little quote button thing didn't work at all for some time, and I really had the blues.   Then it started to work for some reason, and I don't have as many blues now, think I lost some of the green or something. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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