An Ending Licks for Blues, Jazz or Piano Rock Songs - Intermediate
In this video piano lesson, I walk you through at a fairly fast pace how to play an ending lick on a song in the key of C. This is an intermediate lesson, you’ll need to go back and rewind quite a few times to pick up the patterns.
How to create other Ending Licks:
Learn the Left hand bass line first and play it as close as you can to the way I played it in the video. Then learn the notes I play in the right hand for “STEP 1 at :20″ of the video. But realize, the right hand parts can be improvised using the C blues scale. That means just make up a bunch of stuff with the notes: C Eb F F# G Bb C and it’ll sound great! (But only if your left hand is providing a solid foundation). This opens you up to many different variations for ending turnarounds.
Dominant7#11 Chords are The Chord to End a Song With!
The C7#11 chord is spelled: C E G Bb D F# A.
Its a great voicing to use at the end of any Jazz, Rock or Blues song.
The Bb is the b7th. The D is the 9th. The F# is the 11th. The A is the 13th.
So its October, The month for dressing up in costumes! Thats why I’m wearing the glasses, they help me see the keys a little better 
VIDEO REQUESTS:
This video was a request! I’m getting swamped with requests, but keep reminding me with posts on the blog and eventually I’ll get to your request. I’ve also been doing paid requests which are much higher quality and more in-depth. I usually run a rough draft sample lesson by you and then based on your feedback I make a custom video lesson for you!
Awesome- thanks a lot for posting this, it’s very helpful. Are there many other fancy endings/turnarounds that you could show us?
Nice shades by the way.
Thanks Joel,
I have a few other requests to get through and then I can show you some more.
Try improvising a few of your own in the mean time.
Use the same left hand bass line and play a “fill” or solo in the right hand.
Chris,
I truly appreciate your posts. They have made me a much better piano player. My question is regarding the ending licks. I was curious if there is a pattern to this that I could extrapolate to another key