If you are playing a standard 12 bar blues progression, you can improvise over it rather easily with either a pentatonic major, or a pentatonic minor.

The minor pentatonic will give you an intentional half-step dissonance between the flat third in the scale and the major third of the I (one) chord. This dissonance builds tension which resolves whenever you leave the dissonant note.

The Major pentatonic will give a more resolved sound, similar to The Allman Brothers Ramblin' Man .

Tab Examples shown are for Blues in A. Scale diagrams shown are to be moved to appropriate fret for key.

A Major Pentatonic (G Form)

A Minor Pentatonic (G Form)

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