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Turnarounds are the basis for many jazz standards. Perhaps the most prominent example is "I Got Rhythm", which has been played millions of times. In the turnaround there are almost endless possibilities to embellish or substitute chords and I'll show you here what I was able to learn from Joe Pass in my private lessons. Hardly anyone has mastered the turnaround like him, so there are lots of new things to discover here. If you stay in one key, the I-VI-II-V progression is, for example, C^maj7, Am⁷, Dm⁷ and G⁷. The minor chords can also be replaced by seventh chords, which creates a chain of V^ths: C, A⁷, D⁷ and G⁷. If you imagine the C^maj7 as a C^maj9 without its root, you can put Em⁷ in front of the A⁷. This Em⁷ (replaces C^maj7) can then also become a seventh chord: E⁷, A⁷, D⁷ and G⁷. With the help of tritone substitution, some or all seventh chords can be converted into their neighbors: B^b7, E^b7, A^b7 and D^b7. Or you can make combinations, e.g. C⁷, A⁷, A^b7, G⁷ or E⁷, E^b7, D⁷, D^b7 or C⁷, B^b7, A⁷, A^b7, etc. Chord embellishments with the upper structure notes 9, 11 and 13 create countless possibilities. In the video I show you all this in detail.