Turnaround Lick Lesson

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Need a cool lick to play over a jazz turnaround? Great! Here’s a new jazz piano lesson video on playing a turnaround lick.

I recommend you watch the video tutorial first and then scroll down for a bunch of extra tips and resources for you to learn jazz. 

The lesson features a lick in the key of Eb. Although there are manycommon jazz turnarounds  this particular lesson specifically features a I VI II V I chord progression).

You’ll find this chord progression in many jazz standards. They’ll  use this chord progression at the end of a tune to get back to the top of the form or use it in the middle  to get back to the I chord.

So, having a lick to play over this chord progression will be very useful for you. The chords in this lesson are Ebmaj7 – C7 -Fm7-Bb7.

More Jazz Licks To Study

A couple other licks that feature the same type of bebop and cool chromaticism are this Barry Harris lick lesson, this Charlie Parker lick lesson, and this Bill Evans lick.

You can also spend some time checking out this Miles Davis lick or thisClifford Brown lick.

Need Some Chords To Play Behind This Lick?

Awesome! I’ve got you covered. You can start by learning the chords in this II-V-I-VI jazz piano chord lesson or this whole lesson on comping chords over Autumn Leaves.

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