In this lesson, I’ll show you 8 essential blues turnarounds to use in your rhythm and lead blues guitar playing. These examples range from simple to more advanced and are crucial to the blues language when playing over a 12-bar blues.

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Table of Contents
0:00 – Introduction
0:37 – Example 1 (Basic Turnaround in E)
2:33 – Example 2 (Basic Turnaround Variation in E)
4:09 – Example 3a (Chicago Blues Turnaround in E)
6:23 – Example 3b (Chicago Blues Turnaround in E)
7:04 – Example 4 (Turnaround in E)
8:48 – Example 5 (Single Note Turnaround in E)
11:00 – Example 6 (Delta Blues Turnaround in A)
14:33 – Example 7 (Contrary Motion Turnaround in A)
17:53 – Example 8 (Chordal Turnaround)
20:33 – Conclusion