[slejhamer]

Hi folks, my first post here. Like the new forum format - much easier to get to Kirk's stuff.

Quick question - I'd like to replace the double-stop ending in this one with a turnaround so that I can work back to the beginning and run through the piece again.

I know, I can just play the double-stops as the turnaround and go back to measure 1 instead of playing the two E notes in measure 17, but I want the turnaround to be a little different from the ending.

I was thinking of a short little rundown E7 - D#7 - D7, which I've seen in a few blues tunes in E. What other ways can I jazz this up?

Thanks,


(PS - How come I can't see my signature? )

[slejhamer]

Played around with it this morning, and came up with this little turnaround for measures 15 and 16, borrowed from another blues tune in E:



|--0--------0--------|--0------0------------|
|--0-----------------|----------------------|
|--1--------3--------|--2------1------------|
|--------------------|----------------------|
|-----------4--------|--3------2-----0h1----|
|--0-----------------|----------------------|


then back to measure 1:

-----------------------|
--0------0-------------|
--1------1-------------|
--2------2-------------|
-----------------------|
--0------0----------0--| ...


Sounds pretty good to me, but I'd still like to see some more creative ways to insert a turnaround in this piece.

Cheers,

[allthumbs]

How about this

--------------------------------------------------------
------9--------5------7-------5-----------------------------
------------------------------------------8--------------
------9--------5------7-------6----------7-----------------
-----------------------------------7----------------------
--------------------------------------------------------
EDIT Now there is a B7 at the end to complete the turn around.

[Kirk Lorange]

Hi slejhamer ... that's a nice series of moves you did there (sort of the same one I did in different voicings ... sort of). Yours goes E to F#7 to FMAJ7 back to E.

Allthumbs, nice one too ... yours fleshed out would be E to C#dim to B7 to E.

To be a real turnaround, you've got to wind up on the V chord, the B7, so how about

|--0--------0--------|--0------0------------|
|--0-----------------|----------------------|
|--1--------3--------|--2------2------------|
|--------------------|----------------------|
|-----------4--------|--3------2------------|
|--0-----------------|----------------------|

Just change that one note from a G# to an A and you've got yourself a B7 flavor there (the 1 and 7 of B7), which leads easily back to the E.

You could do the same alteration to mine by going:


|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|------9---9---8-----------------------|
|------8---7---7-----------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|

Which also suggests a B7 (the 7 and 3 of B7)


There are many, many ways!

By the way, your signature only appears in posts you made after you added the signature to your profile ...

[slejhamer]

Originally Posted by Kirk

To be a real turnaround, you've got to wind up on the V chord, the B7

Ah! That makes sense - the song from which I borrowed that progression does go to B7 after the little hammer-on. I'll try your versions (and yours, too, Allthumbs.)

Thanks to you both!