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How long have you guys been playing? How familiar are you with pentatonics and improvising?
Secondly, what type of blues are you interested in? Is it more to blues rock? Or more pop-ish like John Mayer? Or are you really interested in mastering the 12-bars?

I play some blues. I'm not teaching, but I can point you to some valuable & time saving lessons.

Feel free to PM me.

learn blues chord progression, its relatively hard to learn a genre without first learning the base rhythmic progression.

Ahh you are still new. Don't worry, I've been playing for 10+ years and I still struggle with this.

Recently I've seen a video with a refreshing take of learning the minor pentatonic scale. It would have been useful if I've seen this 10 years ago:


Right now you have learned one minor pentatonic shape, and yes you're right, most blues and rock solos use this shape.

The next step for you is: In that shape, identify what notes you are playing (Refer to this diagram). Start with the root. Memorize where the root is in the shape. Next learn how to identify the 3rd, 5th, b7 notes are in relation to the root note (For example, if root is on 5th fret, where is the b3 note? Where is the b7? etc). This will teach you how to identify intervals on the fretboard.

Once you've done the homework above (Recommend you spend 1 to 2 months on this), start learning the other shapes. If you're new to this, you might feel it's daunting to memorize 4 more shapes. But don't worry, the first shape you learned is moveable around the fretboard. Because you've done your homework, you know that if you are able find the root note anywhere on the fretboard, you can identify the notes around it. (In my youth, I would just memorize shapes without thinking about the notes. It's a big time waster.) Don't memorize buta2 je.

If you're soloing on I-IV-V progression, you can get a lot of mileage from just minor pentatonics (You can pick up the blues scale when you're familiar with minor pentatonic, it's just one extra note). Don't worry about major pentatonic/scale for the time being, work on the above, work on your timing, work on your techniques (Bending, vibrato, slides). Major scale can come later.

Good luck & enjoy!  :thumbsup: