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12 Bar Blues with Six Turnaround Riffs in E

April 23, 2022March 17, 2017 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0118

Understanding blues guitar can really improve your country and bluegrass guitar playing. In this guitar lesson, we’ll teach you the most common way to play the 12 bar blues and then we’ll go over six awesome blues turnaround riffs that will turn some heads at your next jam session.

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Blues Turnarounds

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12 Bar Blues Tablature

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Mark (@guest_686)

7 years ago

#686

Great post! I’ll be trying out these turnaround riffs

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Kevin (@guest_687)

7 years ago

#687

Can you do a lesson on “Bill Cheatham” sometime? Great site by the way. I’ll be signing up soon.

Kevin

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bertiebmel(@bertiebmelgmail-com)

7 years ago

#732

ALWAYS WANTED TO LEARN THOSE! GREAT . I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE.

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ucmanrgmail-com(@ucmanrgmail-com)

6 years ago

#1029

Cool stuff to work on.

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naskorhan(@naskorhanlive-com)

5 years ago

#1010125

I know it’s going to take some time but I’m going to have a lot of licks in my bag to take to gigs.

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Jocelyn Beauregard(@jocelyn)

5 years ago

#1011135

I used to play blues a couple years before,but never played the B7 this way….very interesting! By the way these turnarounds are cool!

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Jocelyn Beauregard(@jocelyn)

5 years ago

#1011143

Turnaround number for very cool…

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Joseph(@josephmanguiano1gmail-com)

4 years ago

#8027964

WOW! These turnaround licks are great! Fun material to work on and clear explanations. Another great lesson from Devin.

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Carlos(@soriamuno)

3 years ago

#12044255

I’ve never seen this classic Blues lesson so well developed and explained before.

Very good work

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