Playing a Ballad: 7 Examples of Turnarounds - How to End a Verse or Chorus

There are actually 8 examples in this video! Turns out I can't count. 0:40 Original progression (boring!) 1:48 Turnaround #1 2:30 Turnaround #2 3:40 Turnaround #3 4:45 Turnaround #4 5:44 Turnaround #5 6:40 Turnaround #6 7:27 Turnaround #6b (variation) 8:18 Turnaround #7 10:20 Turnaround #8 (yeah, I know it says 7 on the top ... consider it a bonus!) Here are all sorts of idea of how to play a turnaround, which is a nice way of saying a more interesting progression instead of a more boring one, almost always at the end of a verse or a song. People usually talk about turnarounds in the context of jazz harmony but in this case we'll be looking at a progression with a more ballad-y feeling. We're not going to go into the theory this time because it'll just take too long, but I hope these examples will give you ideas and get you motivated to experiment.