jerome.oneil wrote:

You'll play the chord progression as such.  Chords only change on the beginnings of the measures.   I've included the notes in the key of E major as an example.  You should use the chords appropriate for your favorite key.

One        I     E
Two        I     E
Three      I    E
Four       I     E
Five        IV   A
Six         IV   A
Seven     I     E
Eight       I     E
Nine       V    B
Ten        IV   A
Eleven    I     E
Twelve    I    E

Once you play it, you'll immediately recognize it.  It's the basis for literally thousands of songs.

There's also a version which ends with:

Twelve  V  B

The rest is the same.

You could do that as a grace note into the first verse, but I think that would leave the progression pretty unresolved if you ended on the V.

You'll play the chord progression as such.  Chords only change on the beginnings of the measures.   I've included the notes in the key of E major as an example.  You should use the chords appropriate for your favorite key.

One        I     E
Two        I     E
Three      I    E
Four       I     E
Five        IV   A
Six         IV   A
Seven     I     E
Eight       I     E
Nine       V    B
Ten        IV   A
Eleven    I     E
Twelve    I    E

Once you play it, you'll immediately recognize it.  It's the basis for literally thousands of songs.

There's also a version which ends with:

Twelve  V  B

The rest is the same.

It took me years of working out and getting things wrong to get what you just posted.

Isn't the web is just wonderful! I learnt about pentatonics from crumpled photocopies ( does anyone remember the shiny paper they used to come on !) of articles in music mags back in the seventies. They were passed from learner to learner during the "boom" in guitar playing during the punk years. We'd copy them out and practice till our finger tips glowed.

A 12 bar blues is a I IV V chord progression played over 12 bars.

A bar for our purposes, is one measure of 4/4 time.  You count common time as thus.

One Two Three Four
One Two Three Four

In tempo.  Because we are playing 12 bars, we will want to count our progression like this.

One Two Three Four
Two Two Three Four
Three Two Three Four
Four Two Three Four
Five Two Three Four

...

Eleven Two Three Four
Twelve Two Three Four

Simply strum on each beat for right now.

You'll play the chord progression as such.  Chords only change on the beginnings of the measures.   I've included the notes in the key of E major as an example.  You should use the chords appropriate for your favorite key.

One        I     E
Two        I     E
Three      I    E
Four       I     E
Five        IV   A
Six         IV   A
Seven     I     E
Eight       I     E
Nine       V    B
Ten        IV   A
Eleven    I     E
Twelve    I    E

Once you play it, you'll immediately recognize it.  It's the basis for literally thousands of songs.

I don't know what happened there, I had "Tush" playing in my head, but "La Grange" is what spilled out my fingers.  Sorry about that.

   Doc, I bought a Guitar World Legends special edition magazine with Billy Gibbons the other day and it had an interesting article about the history of blues music. They say according to an old blues song that 'the blues came from texas loping like a mule'. No one knows exactly where they came from, but given the musical influence of African slaves with instruments like the mandolin and banjo (which can actually be found in early blues music I found out), I guess that had alot to do with it. I also found out that the earliest forms of 'hillbilly' music (Hank Williams Jimmy Rodgers kind of stuff) was only seperated from the blues by the race of the singer. That the patterns and structures were actually very similar.

E  5-8
A  5-6-7
D  5-7
G  5-7
B  4-5-8
E  5-8

and ont he way up it would be exactly the same only instead of playing 7-5 on the G ud play it 8-7-5

its nice to add the extra notes i think it sounds good and i practice it quite alot and also throw a jam track on and have a bit of a mess around with it
please correct me if theres anything wrong all your info helps me out.

Yes, I love using the blues scale below as well!  The 6 and 7 transition note on A and G strings really makes it unique! 

e - 5 & 8
b - 5 & 8
g - 5 & 7 & 8
d - 5 & 7
a - 5 & 6 & 7
E - 5 & 8

Does anyone know any guidelines for moving this scale up and down the neck like the minor pentatonic?  Do you have to adjust it like you do with the minor pentatonics? ? or does it stay the same and you just have to move it up 2 frets for a whole tone and 1 fret for a 1/2 tone?
Thanks,
ssp3

As far as the girl with the '68 Gibson:   Dude, I'd never advocate violence in any form against any one, but dude!   A '68 Gibson Les Paul?  Is there a statute of limitations on that?

* droool *

Hey these patterns are great!  does anyone know or use the patterns for minor pentatonic that begin in the 5th string? I like to use these scales and go back and forth with major scales on my leads.  I think it sounds good.  Does anyone see any problems with that?
S

It's all about intervals.  The guitar is tuned to 4ths (it's a major 4th between strings, except for G -> B, which is a 3rd), so you can start those patterns on any string except G, and you will *generally* be OK, as the intervals are the same.   If you want to learn to play them from the D string, simply play a pentatonic staring on E to the D.  This is the octave.      Whatever you play from there is a brand new pentatonic.