After assembling that list of intros and outros, I wondered about Minor turnarounds and doing a brief scan of some Minor tunes, it looks like much as I expected, that they're similar to Major turnarounds, but tweaked, but I'm curious if anyone has any better insights.
For example, a 3 6 2 5 1 turnaround in C Major would be E- A7 D- G7 C^. In C Minor, there's certainly no Natural E chord, so the closest thing would be Eb- Ab7 Dm7b5 G7b9 C-^7 but I suppose you could chose to use the relative major for the first half and lose the Minor quality and just use E- A7. It's a possibility. Lots of tunes use substitutions for those first two chords. I saw things like Bb7 Ab7 D-7b5 G7b9 C-^7
I suppose you could use something like a backdoor turnaround, usually replacing the target 3 chord in Major with the tonic: F#m7b5 B7b9 C^ with a Minor version: F- Bb7b9 C-^7 and you could backcycle it further to G- C7 F- Bb7b9 C-^7. Or a Dameron turnaround: C Eb7 Ab7 Db7 which wouldn't have to be modified at all but you could "Minorize" it to C- Eb^7 Ab^7 Db7
Thoughts? Prayers?
For example, a 3 6 2 5 1 turnaround in C Major would be E- A7 D- G7 C^. In C Minor, there's certainly no Natural E chord, so the closest thing would be Eb- Ab7 Dm7b5 G7b9 C-^7 but I suppose you could chose to use the relative major for the first half and lose the Minor quality and just use E- A7. It's a possibility. Lots of tunes use substitutions for those first two chords. I saw things like Bb7 Ab7 D-7b5 G7b9 C-^7
I suppose you could use something like a backdoor turnaround, usually replacing the target 3 chord in Major with the tonic: F#m7b5 B7b9 C^ with a Minor version: F- Bb7b9 C-^7 and you could backcycle it further to G- C7 F- Bb7b9 C-^7. Or a Dameron turnaround: C Eb7 Ab7 Db7 which wouldn't have to be modified at all but you could "Minorize" it to C- Eb^7 Ab^7 Db7
Thoughts? Prayers?
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