Turnarounds

Blues Cadence (I7-IV7-bVII7-I7)

The blues cadence: down to IV7, back through the backdoor bVII7.

Key
C
Level
intermediate
Where
Blues, up-tempo swing

The changes

  1. C7
  2. F7
  3. Bb7
  4. C7

The hands

Left hand then right, as the source writes them. A pianist's voicing routinely carries a colour the chord symbol does not spell — a flat ninth over a dominant, a ninth on top of a seventh chord — so the notes printed under each keyboard are what is actually played, rather than what the symbol alone would predict.

C7

chord 1 · chord 4

LH C2 G2RH E4 Bb4 D5

F7

chord 2

LH F2 C3RH A3 Eb4 G4

Bb7

chord 3

LH Bb2 F3RH D4 Ab4 C5

Associated players