Blues Guitar Scales

What are the Chords in a Blues scale (on Guitar)?
I like the Blues scale but im kinda new to Guitar what are the chords in the Blues scale.
ok first of all,blues is quite strange you know, you mostly play a minor scale of only 5 notes of a "normal scale" and play them with dominant 7th or dominant 9th chords. first of all, the most popular progression is I-IV-V (1, 4, 5) now "what does it mean this thing they keep saying?" okay first of all those numbers refer to the notes in a scale, but in a chord progression (a succession of chords) it refers to the chords it follows.
Ok, lets make an example, lets play in the key of A, A is the I chord (play A dominant 7th), then D is the IV ( play d dominant 7th or d dominant 9th), and at last play E which is the V (Play E dominant 7th or dominant 9th)
lets play the A chord, while the chord is "ringing" play the major pentatonic or major blues scale, you'll see it sounds cool, now play the D chord, use the minor pentatonic or blues scale ( the blues scale is the same thing to the minor pentatonic, only the blues scale is using one more note on the pentatonic, the blues note , the 3th flat), and lastly play the E chord with the blues scale or minor pentatonic, now you will use this in different key, play in the Key of E, in a chord progression the notes are E F G A B C D E, now use the I-IV-V so in this case would be E,B,C, same thing, only play the scale in the key of E,
Now you probably have heard of 12 bar blues right?, its the same thing only you play the progression in bars, (you probably have learned that in some music class right, that a bar has 4 notes, what I like to call tempos) lets use the example of the key of A,
in the 12 bar blues would be I, I, I, I, IV, IV, I, I, V, IV, I, I
now your wondering what is that, ok in the key of A would be play each corresponding chord 4 times with each letter I put: A, A, A, A, D, D, A, A, E, D, A, A, then repeat from the beginning, count how many letters i put? they are 12, 12 bar blues (get it)
now you see, this is the tempo of the chords you play, in a normal blues standard progression like this one, you need to know to which chord you are approaching to (know the progression, the key, the chords, and the scale), so keep in mind while improvising, while do can play the minor pentatonic (normal blues scale) in the first chord of the key, in this case A, it sounds pretty cool when you play the major pentatonic (major blues scale) with it, so you don't run out of ideas, also, remember that blues is not always how fast you can play but how intense and expressive you play, of course if you want some fast parts do them, but remember what Eric Clapton once said "you can make a single note sound different each time if you give it the right kind sincerity" (wow deep, jajaja), if you have any questions, feel free to ask
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