Blues Turnaround Help
tristonian
Apr 15 2012, 10:42 PM
GMC:er
Posts: 3
Joined: 4-April 12
These things confuse the hell out of me. Whenever I'm learning a blues tune these always make the least sense theory wise to me.

I understand we're trying to resolve to the I chord and good way of doing this is by getting to the V or ii chord. For example in an old delta blues tune I recently learned by Pink Anderson called Everyday of the week (G major blues), the turnaround starts on G-E7-A7-D7-G. Essentially a vi-ii-V-I. Here's the link to the lesson: http://fingerstyleblues.com/lesson-20-pink...the-week-blues/

What I don't get are the descending melodic elements to the turnaround especially after the last G (the B-D-A#-C#-A-C-G-B-G line). I'm really trying to understand why these work even though a couple of the notes aren't in the scale). To me it looks like the A# is from the C7 chord and the C# is from the A7 chord.

I may have just answered my own question and I know how a lot of times in blues tunes they just use 7 chords. Why is that? Just breaking the rules to get a good color?

I guess I need some guidance in how to understand blues music.

Thx,
Tristan

You are at GuitarMasterClass.net


Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post

Reply to this topicStart new topic
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:

 




RSS Lo-Fi Version Time is now: 28th March 2024 - 03:01 PM