The Best Blues Turnaround I've Ever Learned

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While working on a new course this week I stumbled onto a blues turnaround variation that I had never picked up on before. And that discovery led me to another turnaround variation which I'll teach you in this lesson. Unlike most of the turnarounds I've used, this one uses three different strings instead of just two.
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[@colej3360]

That overhead angle is so helpful.

[@ChrisPBacon-sh4wo]

Jimmy Page plays that same turnaround at the end of Bring It On Home but the other direction. 9 up to 12 on the D and B while hitting 12 on the high E

[@jefferylord3068]

Incorrect

[@lonelyseaproductions2337]

He plays a version of it at the end of "Babe I'm gonna leave you" as well.

[@robhead22]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@randyc5650]

Or you could make it a whole song...I'm So Glad. Thanks, Anthony.

[@dw9096]

Nice Lesson Anthony!

[@jeffmartinez6073]

Best turnaround I've heard. Smokin' Joe Kubek- Aramadillo Blues: great playing.

[@anttiarokoski6255]

Just beautiful!

[@DarkKhagan]

Thanks Man for the great lesson! The triad shape you played on the higher G, B, E strings is also very similar to the intro in Jimi Hendrix's "Red House!" 🎸

[@gtrdoc911]

Another very cool turn around thing to work on is various picking patterns that exploit the C#7, F#7, B7, E7 progression switching chords on each beat of that glorious 11th bar (throwing in successive subdominants).

[@DoobTube71]

Thanks for a great video. The absolute best angle of the finger board and fingering position I have ever seen on a guitar lesson!

[@johnw4659]

Thanks for another great lesson, Anthony. Also - just got my new pack of .11's and my new TXBA coffee mug. A nice way to start off a Saturday !

[@5150show]

Absolutely brilliant thank you

[@hafstrat]

Thank you so much for sharing this! ❤🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@andymaslenauthor8182]

Lovely - and you can do a lovely part-inversion where your D string goes down from frets 12 to 9 while your B string walks up the other way. Easy to finger and you get an even sweeter turnaround :)

[@Cherry_Sunburst]

EXCELLENT.

[@justgivenofox9543]

This angle 👌🏼🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@guitar4you2011]

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing! 🎸🎶🤘

[@nirvilchigs7871]

This is how learning works. No complicated theory. Just do this, it'll sound like this. Copy and learn.

[@Blues-man.]

Great lesson, thanks.

[@markpell8979]

Like this so much that I'm subscribing right now! This turnaround puts some added spice in there. Playing it over an E or A based progression lets the guitar do some of the work, an idea that BFG would definitely be in favor of. I like your POV look at the fretboard as a demonstration and teaching method too. Seems odd I haven't noticed this 'player's view' being used on any other shows. Really enjoyed this, thanks!

[@ecpasos]

I like it. Thx for sharing that. :)

[@thenotchosen]

Man awesome lesson thank you

[@tonymirabal8832]

Thank you

[@thomasmartinscott]

Very Cool! I like it already. Thank you. That's a good one!

[@gnawbabygnaw]

Nice! Thanks 🤙🤙

[@arifq123]

Very nice.

[@steveelling9604]

Love it! Billy Gibbons would be proud.

[@marleymason3986]

Sounds fat thanks for showing us that 🤠 That's gonna be a lot of fun. 'Baby be a simple kind of man' 🎶

[@motherlessblues1565]

I’m so glad cream

[@richj4305]

Good ear

[@motherlessblues1565]

@@richj4305 I was playing that when I was 12 yrs old so was like a very old friend,,,

[@tonya5809]

Sounds like a Freddie King lick. Check out his version of Sweet Home Chicago😀

[@casher8734]

Woah sounds like the end of the solo to you shook me by Zeppelin, awesome video! New fan here for sure

[@bobymox]

That turnaround on 7:35 I use often,and for me is the best especialy on acoustic guitar!

[@LJC68]

Check out "I'm so glad" by Cream. Clapton uses the open E in both the walk up and walk down

[@kellyhassen8071]

Clapton, Key to the Highway. Messin with that the other day.

[@Gamesforus1]

This is a very delta blues turnaround, I heard Dave Simpson play something similar on acoustic for a lesson once

[@mds1171]

I've been saying for years that I wish guitar teachers would use a top down camera view so you can see the fret board like a guitar player. The straight on shot is pretty useless without tab.

[@Texasbluesalley]

90% of the feedback I've had on this angle over the years has been positive, but the people who don't like it REAAAAALLLLLY don't like it.

[@timmyshore3755]

jimmy page has played that turnaround for years. blake shelton also uses it but in a different way.

[@raymohyde422]

Reminds of Sweet Papa John! His candy is known for miles around...

[@stilllife4u]

For a cat that has been playing for a very long time . This is a good lesson

[@acousticabuse6953]

Meow meow meowwwww

[@bobszejk9620]

Sounds a lot like "I'm So Glad". Clapton/Cream

[@GhostFace_OG]

When you subconsciously play "I'm So Glad" by Cream.

[@TheAxe4Ever]

I call that the “everybody must get stoned” turnaround lick. You know, the Bob Dylan song. 😂

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

Rainy Day Women.

[@michaelkarlsson5966]

Thank you for this! It was great to see that logic unfold! Have you listened to Mick Abrahams, of Blodwyn Pig and the first Jethro Tull album, these turnarounds remind me of his playing a bit. If you haven't listened I'll glady recommend it. Cheers! :)

[@edt.5118]

Yes! "Dear Jill". It is permanently imprinted in my brain.

[@pedroqueridomusic]

Try this one (in the key of E) (x x 9 x 9 12 / x x 11 x 10 12/ x x 10 x 11 12 / x x 9 8 10 x ) . As if to play E,A, C7,B7. I think it sounds pretty tasty!

[@Mauitaoist]

Funny he calls it the Billy Gibbons or the ZZ Top turnaround, but actually, it's Robert Johnson's "Kind hearted Woman" turnaround....

[@yomuleblue]

Agree, I hear a lot of Robert Jr Lockwood in this lesson, and he learned from Robert Johnson

[@artprince9163]

This sounds like the chord progression in Cream’s “ I’m So Glad”

[@Grecoguitardude]

exactly

[@brianice9846]

Im hearing I’m So Glad by Cream

[@bunkie2100]

You’re not the only one.

[@PlouplePoupi]

🙏🏻👍🏼🍒

[@dannyjonze]

And muddy waters had a load of those turnarounds

[@NCWharfRat]

Jerry Garcia used this in “Tennessee Jed”…

[@MasterStratocaster9]

For the first turnaround, higher up the neck, I like to include the E on the G string as well. So the first chord shape I'm plucking is DEBE, then C#EBbE, CEAE, BEAbE.

[@MasterStratocaster9]

@Texasbluesalley - this you?

[@onegenooneappleonetilly9234]

Clapton

[@superdave1964]

i hear some KWS

[@jessejacobs3792]

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

[@ebisu8824]

Yeah.... 🙄

[@shawnjbray]

I’ve heard that turnaround before. But can’t think of the songs or artist

[@platosocrates232]

Im search for a intro/turnaround I can't figure out 100% and don't find it anywhere. Who knows this? It's the beginning of the song Good Thinking Bad Man from Status Quo. I know the song alright and have the TAB, but not the intro.

[@robertI931]

What are those pickups?

[@dannyjonze]

I'm sure hendrix used that

[@qddk9545]

You are a little bit late - have you ever heard I´m so Glad with Cream from ´66?😄

[@CamposCaster]

What about the bass line on a turnaround,,,No one talks about the relationship between guitar and bass

[@mrmr314]

I like to turn my 100w Marshall up to 10 and make the windows blast out.

[@smelltheglove2038]

Dang, you’re a legend. I can’t turn my vibrolux up past four. It’s only 35w.

[@lawrence1960]

I’m a classical player trying to learn electric blues. Why is that all of the lessons I find on electric guitar on you tube always refer to fret, string and finger position. There is never a mention of pitch, interval or scale degree? It makes it really hard for some reason. Probably over thinking it.

[@Texasbluesalley]

People who learn guitar in an academic scenario sometimes don't realize that there are a LOT of people who learn to play guitar without learning much theory at all. They might not even know the names of the chords they are playing, just scale position (I, IV, V for example). This can be disconcerting if you come from an academic background because it feels "wrong" to play something without knowing the theory behind it, but all I can say is that some people accomplish great things doing it the "wrong" way :-)

[@lawrence1960]

@@Texasbluesalley thanks for the response. And there is no wrong way to play. I meant no judgement. It’s all a good. And I like your lessons. I’ll just have to translate everything to a language I know. But I think as teachers we are doing.a disservice by not bringing the musically illiterate, why still very competent, players into the musical language. It opens so many more doors and perspectives. Maybe you could just add it to the method you already use?

[@straightshooter8662]

Jury play the open e instead of freting it

[@jimlatorra2693]

Billy gibbons zz top?

[@jimlatorra2693]

Wow I love it. I've never won anything. Thanks so much.

[@jimlatorra2693]

@idrissyamusamu thanks 😊

[@jchavins]

in all cases you'rfe stating at double or triple stops walking down from a 7th to the major chord or up from a major to the 7th.....spend some time looking a steel guitar bends on a guitar

[@sendjamin]

Have i got a turnaround for you…

[@jaxone1259]

You should tune your guitar before making a video...sounds like your out of Tune here. ......1st string at 1:54 and on you can hear it big time.. I thought ....Great Video / info

[@drivenmad7676]

that over head view is unusual. Can't say i like it but good lesson otherwise.