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I'd like to teach how to play two tasty turnarounds on the Ukulele in the key of G. These are great to kick of a blues in G or turn it around in a more tasty Delta style in the vain of Robert Johnson but they also work great in a modern context a la Stevie Ray or Derek Trucks. 

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* Blues turnaround

* Blues in G

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Mark Trevis Sir-Uke-A-Lot

Towards the end of the video, when you are playing a bit of lead, are you playing a G Blues scale, or a G minor pentatonic, or what?? I always have trouble figuring out what to play and how to know and then to find it quickly.. just more practice I suppose.. hahaha

Tyler Austenfeld

More practice is the key to all of it, but guided practice can really cut down on the time and increase the dividends quickly. To make a long answer very short, I am using the G minor Pentatonic of the G blues. Now, the G blues scale is just the G minor with one added note, which is a passing tone, or a note you don't hold, you just touch on and move, which I do make use of, so you could think about it as the G blues scale as well, but it really helps to have a strong grasp of the G minor pentatonic first. That rule applies to all blues, blues in E, E minor Pentatonic, blues in A, A minor Pentatonic, etc, you can get more complicated than that, but even if you do 95% of your vocabulary comes from that base so that is where you should really start.

GracenEdgar

Thank you so much!