Turnarounds

Minor Turnaround (i-bVI-iim7b5-V7)

The minor ii-V, approached through bVImaj7.

Key
C
Level
intermediate
Where
Minor blues, ballads

The changes

  1. Cm7
  2. Abmaj7
  3. Dm7b5
  4. G7alt

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.

Cm7

chord 1

LH C3 G3RH Eb4 Bb4 D5

Abmaj7

chord 2

LH Ab2 Eb3RH C4 G4 Bb4

Dm7b5

chord 3

LH D3 Ab3RH F4 C5 Eb5

G7alt

chord 4

LH G2 Db3RH B3 F4 Ab4

Associated players

The PDF book

The Ultimate Jazz Piano Voicings and Chord Atlas

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