Practice Tip: New Turnaround Lick

The turnaround area of the 12 Bar Blues (bars 11 and 12) is an area where we tend to go into autopilot and play a generic lick. Grab a new turnaround lick from one of your study songs or the list provided in Improvising Study 5 and practice placing it into your improvising practice (which should be 1/3 of your practice time at this point). Make this your default turnaround lick for a minimum of one month. If you do this each month, then by the end of the year you’ll have twelve killer turnaround licks in your vocabulary.

Reference: Improvising Study 5