You won't find anyone who knows more about the blues than Dave Rubin. Dave's written hundreds of columns for all of the major guitar mags, authored countless blues books and has played with Son Seals, Chuck Berry, Johnny Copeland, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, James Brown, Marvelettes, the Coasters and the Drifters, to name but a few.

Rubin is also one of the very few to be awarded The Blues Foundation's Keeping The Blues Alive Award.

TrueFire and Rubin have cooked up dozens of blues lessons over the years, but the Big Book of Blues is clearly our most ambitious production to date with 124 interactive pages of blues insight and instruction across 4 CD-Roms featuring 137 video elements and 166 lesson examples.

Dave Rubin's Big Book of Blues leverages our new interactive player for both Windows and Mac with looping, zoom, speed and other useful controls.

The Big Book examines the styles of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Buddy Guy, Albert King, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Freddie King, Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Steve Cropper and many more top blues artists.

Virtually every style of blues and blues-influenced guitar is touched on: Delta Blues, Texas Blues, Chicago Blues, Boogie-Woogie, Blues-Rock, Brit-Blues, Rockabilly, Country Blues, classic R&B, Jump Blues, Cool Blues, early Rock 'n Roll and more.

The Big Book covers intros, turnarounds, double stops, bottleneck, open tunings, 6/9 chords, partial chords and substitutions, bending, bass lines, vamping, soloing, blues boxes, organ vamps, jamming tips, great tone, triple stops, fills, blues forms, fingerstyle blues and more blues essentials.

Here's how Big Book of Blues works …

We selected 58 of Rubin's most popular articles and lessons and beefed them up with extra tips, anecdotes and history.

All 166 of the lesson examples are presented in PowerTab format in an easy-to-use interactive manual.

137 cherry-picked video examples are presented in the TrueFire player to illustrate key lesson examples.

Two complete blues solos are broken down phrase-by-phrase by Rubin with narration, jam tracks, notation and PowerTab.

58 BIG BLUES TUTORIALS

Blues Vamps - Build a Firm Foundation with Rock-Solid Riffs; Rockin' in Rhythm - Get in the Groove with these Fundamental Beats; Jump Blues - Essential Elements to Get You Jumpin', Jivin', and Wailin'; Kick Out The Jams - Rhythm Tools for Jamming the Blues; T-Bone Walker - The Father of Electric Blues Guitar; Cool Blues - The Smooth Sounds of Sliding 6th/9th Chords; Night Train - Learn the Familiar Hooks of an R&B Classic; Sweet and Lowdown - Blues and Boogie Bass Lines for Guitar; Blues Intro Riffs - Navigating the I-IV Chord Change; Open-D Tuning - Dust My Blues…with a Slide; Open-String Turnarounds - Authentic Cadences for True Blues Power; British Blues-Rock - Blues from Across the Atlantic; B.B. King - Soloing Styles of a Modern Blues Monarch; Freddie King - Licks and Fills in the Style of the "Texas Cannonball"; Roots of Rock n' Roll - Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Duane Eddy; Pickin' and Grinnin' - Country Music Fingerstylists of the Past and Present; Delta Blues - A Solo-Guitar Accompaniment in the Style of Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, and others; "Killing Floor" - Howlin' Wolf's Classic Roars Again; Robert Johnson - The First Guitar Hero; Jimmy Nolen - Funk Machine; Minor Blues - Get Out of Your Major Rut!; Eight-Bar Blues - A Variation of the Standard 12-Bar Form; Organ-Combo Blues - What's a Rhythm Guitarist to Play?; Memphis Soul - The Rhythm Guitar Style of Soul Legend Steve Cropper; Solo Acoustic Blues, Chicago Style! - From Mississippi to the Windy City; Double-Stop Blues - Sometimes Two Notes Are Better Than One; Back at the Chicken Shack - A Classic, B3-Inspired, 12-Bar Jazz-Blues; Classic R&B - Ike Turner, Curtis Mayfield, Cornell Dupree, and Steve Cropper; Jimi Hendrix - Exploring the Ornamental Fills of Jimi's Rhythm Guitar Style; Triple Play Blues - Using Triads and Triple Stops in Your Solos; Battle of the Boxes - B.B. King vs. Albert King - Two Classic Blues Patterns Weigh In; Color Tones - Combining the Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales; Blues Turnaround Licks - Back to the Beginning; Killer Blues Tones - Classic Guitar/Amp Combos of B.B. King, Albert King, and SRV; Country Blues - Accompany yourself with an Authentic 12-bar Pattern; Fingerstyle Blues - 12-Bar Arrangement for Solo Performance; Muddy Waters - King of Chicago Blues; Boogie-Woogie Alternatives - Substitutions for Standard Boogie-Based Accompaniments; Rockin' The '50s - Exploring the guitar styles of doo-wop, boogie woogie, and rockabilly; Jimmy Smith - King of the Organ Vamps; New Orleans - The Cradle of the Blues; Texas Blues - Lone Star Licks; Sliding in Standard - Bottleneck Blues without a Twist; Bottleneck Blues - A Crash Course on Standard-Tuned Slide; Albert King - Blues Power!; Albert King - King Bender; "Catfish Blues" - The Evolution of a Classic Lick; The West Side Sound - Minor Blues Solo Guitar Arrangement; PLUS: Two blues solos performed and broken down phrase-by-phrase by Rubin with narration, jam tracks, notation and PowerTab.

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