one of my favorite turn arounds

[Jusatele]

this is good for when you are playing a real jazzy sounding 12 bar blues

key of c for demo porposes
we are on the 5th chord about to do the down change then the turn around

I will be gripping a G7th barring the D,G,B, E strings on the 3rd fret with the index finger on the G string 4th fret, so we have F,B,D,G, a G dom 7th, to introduce the walk down I will use my pinky to bring this chord up to an 9th, by fretting the E string on the 5th fret, or A, now I can call this a rootless G 9th or a inverted B minor 7th dim 5th, which is what we will call it for the turn around, oh we play this the last beat of the measure before the walk down, now we walk down G7th, Gb7th, F, (yea lose the 7th here for to set up the turn around, now back to C7th, and then the turnaround C7th, F, Bm7thdim5, C7th.

works and sounds real jazzy after just a little practice

 

[Steve_Karl]

I'm not getting the timing. Can you go a quick lead sheet as like:

| C7 | F9 | C7 | C7 | F9 | F9 | C7 Dmi7 | Emi7 Ebmi7 | Dmi7 | G7 | ( do turn around here ? )

Thanks

 

[Jusatele]

here is a pattern
C7
////      ////      ////    ////

F7              C7

////    ////    ////    ////

G7 Bm7>5  G7 Gb7 F  C7  F  Bm7>5  C7

///  /          /  /    //      //  //    //      // 

or the last 2 measures

C7      F  Bm7>5  C7   

////      /      /        //   

I will also sometimes change the strum pattern of the 8th measure to a 12/8ths feel which is like a / / ///  feel    we tend to do blues in 4/4 which feels / / / /  but if you listen to a lot of the early country blues they had more of a lope timing, / / /// like you took the last 2 beats of a measure and put a triple in there. One of the things about African Music is that it uses beat changes. Early country blues reflects this a lot as you hear extra beats in a measure or the song slows and speeds up, We have a tendency nowdays to try to define rhythm in steady even beats and lose some of the flow of earlier times while we look for perfect techniques

 

[Steve_Karl]

I can't imagine getting away with ending a turn around on the C7 if the first chord of the progression is also a C7.
I'd be more likely to go for something like:

whatever    G13    G7#5#9               for the last bar.
   //           /            /

 

[AutoBat]

heh.  chord names & music theory.
[me=AutoBat]leaves the thread hurriedly.[/me]

 

[Jusatele]

I can't imagine getting away with ending a turn around on the C7 if the first chord of the progression is also a C7.
I'd be more likely to go for something like:

whatever    G13    G7#5#9               for the last bar.
   //           /            /

I like that