Turnarounds

Chromatic Descending (I-biii-ii-bII7-I)

Roots descend by half step from Ebm7 home. Smooth voice leading.

Key
C
Level
intermediate
Where
Ballads, smooth transitions

The changes

  1. Cmaj7
  2. Ebm7
  3. Dm7
  4. Db7
  5. Cmaj7

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.

Cmaj7

chord 1 · chord 5

LH C2 G2RH E4 B4 D5

Ebm7

chord 2

LH Eb3 Bb3RH Gb4 Bb4 Db5

Dm7

chord 3

LH D3 A3RH F4 A4 C5

Db7

chord 4

LH Db3 Ab3RH F4 Cb5 Eb5

Associated players