brosblues
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04/29/26
lots of useful licks!
There are many useful ideas in this course which can be incorporated into blues playing in a variety of settings.
30 Blues Intros, Turnarounds, & Endings You MUST Know
Essential Vocabulary for the Blues Guitarist
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Intros, turnarounds, and endings are the key moments that really frame a blues song, and with the right moves at your fingertips, you can make the most of these moments.
In this collection of 30 Blues Intros, Turnarounds, and Endings, David Hamburger will teach you two intros, two turnarounds and two endings for each of five essential blues grooves — a shuffle, boogaloo, slow blues, minor blues and a jazz blues. Wrap your hands around these licks to start turning your jams into songs, and sound good doing so.
”Keith Moon supposedly said, all that matters is how you start and how you finish - that’s all they’re going to remember. I’d add: they’ll also notice if you play some cool turnarounds in the middle, too!
For each of the 30 intros, turnarounds and endings in this collection, David will first perform the lick over a backing track and then break it down for you note-by-note.
David will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for each of the Intros, turnarounds and endings. Plus, David includes all of the rhythm tracks for you to work with on your own. In addition, you’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s dig in with David Hamburger!
In this collection of 30 Blues Intros, Turnarounds, and Endings, David Hamburger will teach you two intros, two turnarounds and two endings for each of five essential blues grooves — a shuffle, boogaloo, slow blues, minor blues and a jazz blues. Wrap your hands around these licks to start turning your jams into songs, and sound good doing so.
”Keith Moon supposedly said, all that matters is how you start and how you finish - that’s all they’re going to remember. I’d add: they’ll also notice if you play some cool turnarounds in the middle, too!
For each of the 30 intros, turnarounds and endings in this collection, David will first perform the lick over a backing track and then break it down for you note-by-note.
David will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for each of the Intros, turnarounds and endings. Plus, David includes all of the rhythm tracks for you to work with on your own. In addition, you’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s dig in with David Hamburger!
What you'll learn
- Navigate upper position chord voicings (5th-11th frets)
- Apply partial chord voicings for smoother voice leading
- Play an authentic Charlie Christian-style jazz blues ending
- Combine minor pentatonic blues licks with major 7th resolutions
- Voice 9th chords using top four notes (3rd, b7, 9, 5th)
Release date: 07/23/2018 • 1h 29m runtime
Sample lessons
Open Minded
Lick 3: Shuffle Turn I
Meade Lux Deluxe
Lick 5: Shuffle Ending I
All the Hits
Lick 8: Boogaloo Intro II
Double-Time
Lick 11: Boogaloo Ending I
What's included
32 lessons • 30 charts • 30 Jam Tracks
30 Blues Intros, Turnarounds, & Endings
Hi, I'm David Hamburger, and welcome to 30 Blues Intros, Turnarounds & Endings You MUST Know. Intros, turnarounds and endings are the key moments that really frame a song, and with the right moves at your fingertips, you can make the most of these moments.
We'll cover two intros, two turnarounds and two endings in five different essential grooves. Wrap your hands around these licks to start tuning your jams into songs, and sound good doing so. Ready? Grab your guitar, and let's get going.
We'll cover two intros, two turnarounds and two endings in five different essential grooves. Wrap your hands around these licks to start tuning your jams into songs, and sound good doing so. Ready? Grab your guitar, and let's get going.
Ray Vaughan
This first intro is a remix of various signature Stevie Ray Vaughan intro moves. Unison slide into the high E? Check – see measure one. Double-time b5 hammer-on/pull-offs? Check – see measures two and three. Half-stepping into the V chord, complete with Hendrix-approved 7#9 voicing? Check and check – see measure four. You can hear all of these elements in their native environment on "Texas Flood".
Train Wreck
Double stops, stop time, double time – it's all here. This intro opens with a variation on the classic blues "train whistle" double stop over a set of rhythm section hits before getting to some seventh-chord sounding double stops in measure three and a hammer-on/pull-off move. Notice that the 4-b5-4-b3 move in the middle of measure three is the same lick, in the same spot, as in Shuffle Intro 1 – it's just an octave higher.
Open Minded
Back to open position, where we kick off this turnaround move with a unison slide to a B at the start of measure one. The double stop at the end of the same measure leads you headlong into measure 2 by anticipating the A7 chord the rhythm section is about to hit. There's a Charlie Christian-esque vibe to the way the descending lick that follows spells out the A chord, and the blues licks in measures 2 and 4 are an open-string version of the conclusion to Shuffle Intro 2 above.
Grissom
I totally swiped this opening move from something I saw David Grissom demonstrate once, the idea of using the open second string as a pedal tone while playing blues licks below it on the fourth and fifth strings. The low-end blues scale triplets in measures 3 and 4 are either sped up Muddy Waters or slowed-down Stevie Ray Vaughan, depending on your perspective and/or who you heard play them first.
Meade Lux Deluxe
This is an adaptation of the classic A9 move from William Brown's 1942 "Mississippi Blues". In its original context, it's played on the I chord as part of a fingerstyle arrangement in A. Here, we've got a more flexible electric guitar version of the same idea, transposed through all three chords of a turnaround in E.
Chromatica
More anticipation, and more transposing of a cool-sounding lick from V to IV. The secret here is the way you hammer-on into a double stop that includes both the b7 and the major 3rd before completing the cool, chromatic Charlie Parker-esque climb to the 5th. Repeat on the IV, anticipating the downbeat with the A7 hammer-on, before winding up with a combination of triplet single-note licks and staggered chord hits.
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Reviews
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NickJF
Verified buyer
04/09/25
I'm having fun learning guitar again.
Going through the many lessons, I found that they were all very easy to follow. Although it's tempting to blow through the lessnons, focusing on one lesson at a time and mastering it is key. .
stefobject
Verified buyer
01/26/25
Turn around are really a must know
A cool blues musician you need to know those licks and turn around go blind and buy it , no hesitation !
Uschmed
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01/22/22
30 Blues Intros, Turnarounds, & Endings
A great compilation of Intros, turnarounds and endings. Very tasteful and at the same time accessible. In his easy going, unconceited style Mr. Hamburger has a knack for making you keep at it and master the material that is applicable in various musical contexts. The course is so good that it even makes you totally forgive and forget the silly hat.
2canoe
Verified buyer
06/02/21
Informative and a lot of fun
David Hamburger's 30 Blues intros, turnarounds and endings covers a wide range of styles and uses for these imperative parts of blues structure. David explores a variety of intros, turnarounds and endings explaining their make up and relationship to the songs they are part of...it's a great course and playing the examples is as lot of fun. Thanks David and Truefire
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