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210<br />

Part 5: Embellishing<br />

Note<br />

Some jazz musicians refer<br />

to turnarounds as turnbacks.<br />

Turnarounds<br />

Chapter 10 also presented a concept of the phrase-ending cadence. Well, in the<br />

fields of jazz and popular music, you find a similar concept called a turnaround.<br />

A turnaround typically is a two-bar phrase, with two chords per measure, that<br />

functions much the same as a traditional cadence, “turning around” the music<br />

to settle back on the I chord at the start of the next phrase.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is a wide variety of chord combinations you can use to create an earpleasing<br />

turnaround, some of which go outside the underlying key to circle<br />

back around to the tonic.<br />

Here are just a few you might want to try:<br />

Common Chord Turnarounds<br />

Turnaround Example (in C)<br />

I-IV-iii-ii<br />

I-vi-ii-V<br />

iii-VI-ii-V<br />

I-vi-♭vi-V<br />

I-♭VII-iii-ii<br />

IV-iii-ii-♭ii<br />

I-vi-♭vi-♭II<br />

I-VI-♭V-♭III

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