Chords for `Key to the highway´ Blues Turnaround Style in A - Blues Guitar Lesson

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_ [N] Hey, how's it going guys?
My name is John McLennan excited to bring you this blues guitar lesson
and we're looking at a turnaround in the key of a and a blues and I was just playing like an 8 bar blues a la
Key to the highway, but you can use this you can move it around to any key
And you can use it in a 12 bar blues or an 8 bar blues the basic idea of a turnaround is that?
It's happens in the last two bars of the blues
And it takes you from the end back to the top again.
It has a real distinct
Character to the melody or the lick that you're playing and as a blues guitar player you want to have plenty [F#m] of these at your disposal so
_ I'm thinking basically of this a shape here
And I'm starting with my first finger on the fourth fret and then my pinky on
The [Dm] seventh fret and [C#] that's on the fifth string and then the fourth string [E] so those [C#] two notes together
With two frets between my fingers, and I'm going to play _
The _ _ fifth string to the fourth string and then back to the fifth string and then this first finger is going to sort of just
Progressively progressively crawl up to the seventh fret while the pinky stays there
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_ _ And I end with you know seven and seven so one of the things [N] you're gonna want to do is just work out a fingering
So here's what I'm [F#m] doing.
I'm using my first finger pinky
I [D] slide my first finger up then [D#] I'm using my second finger and then [Am] my third finger goes down
for the last
[C#] pluck there so _ _ [D] _ _ [D#] _
_ _ [A] _ _ [N] _ and
The rhythm is basically triplets.
You know three _
Three notes to one [A] beat so [C#] one two and [D]
three
[D#] Four and [A] one
And then I end with this real nice e7 sharp [E] 5 chord
It's basically just a dominant 7 sharp 5 and it's a real distinct sound you know you'll hear [B] those like in sort of like a
t-bone Walker slow [D] blues like
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You know just setting up the 5 [A#] chord.
You know
[A] _
_ _ [F#m] _ [A] _ [Em] That kind of _
[D] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _
[A] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ so yeah real cool sound [E] with that
_ You know dominant 7 sharp 5 augmented [G#m] chord basically
_ Cool so here's the lick one more time starts on beat [C#] 2 1 _
[D] So [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ let's see [G] if we can try that in the context of an 8 bar [G#] blues
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_ _ _ So that should give you an idea there to get started be sure to click the link for the tab
[B] Tabs below and we'll see it in the next lesson.
Thanks for tuning in _ _ _
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