I read once that the reason the twelve bar form is regarded as the basic blues is that record companies in the USA thought it would be a good idea to have a standard blues style. I always thought that it was just a basic building block of blues music.
No matter where it came from, twelve bar blues is like a universal language among guitar players, so it’s best to learn a little of it.
Here is a representation of twelve bars in the key of A:
A A A A
D D D D
E D A E
. . . or you could play seventh chords instead:
A7 A7 A7 A7
D7 D7 D7 D7
E7 D7 A7 E7
. . . or you could play the basic chords up to the last bar and let the E7 chord lead into the next twelve bars.
You can make up your own variations on the basic twelve bar blues – play arpeggios, use barre chords instead of open chords, but along with practicing blues on your guitar you will get plenty of ideas on making the blues your own music by listening to other blues guitar players and imitating what you like.
Here is a video that will help you with the major pentatonic scale in blues guitar music:
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