12 bar blues

Depends on what type of blues you want to play... real basic 3-chord or more of a jazz-blues.

The real, mind-numbingly simple, 3-chord blues are as follows:

root for 4 bars
4th for 2 bars
root for 2 bars
5th for a bar
4th for a bar
root for 2 bars

So, F blues in the above format would be:

F7, F7, F7, F7, Bb7, Bb7, F7, F7, C7, Bb7, F7, F7

A more jazz-type blues would be

root for 1 bar
4th for 1 bar
root for 2 bars
4th for 2 bars
root for a bar
6th for a bar
2nd for a bar
5th for a bar
root 2 beats/6th 2 beats
2nd 2 beats/5th 2 beats

Blues in F again:

F7, Bb7, F7, F7, Bb7, Bb7, F7, D7, G7, C7, F7|D7, G7|C7

There are of course TONS of alternate chord choices you can make... this is an EXTREMELY generic guideline.

 

or you could try (my favorite) 1 3 5 6 7 6 5 3 1 then on bflat 1 3 5 6 7 6 5 3 1 then repeat on f then b flat 1 3 5 6 then on c 1 3 5 6