Tuesday Minor Class - Turnarounds 1- jamming
All levels. Turnarounds (the last two bars of a blues progression) are perhaps the most important part of playing the blues. They are the glue that holds a performance together. Unfortunately there are many, many different ones, and some songs don’t actually have one! In this introduction we will look at the variety of turnarounds in different regional styles (Mississippi/Chicago, Texas, New Orleans, East Coast), both pre- and post-war. The goal will be to learn how to listen for turnarounds in a jam situation and to figure out how some turnarounds fit with others. There will be jamming!