Big Book of Blues

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 featuring 137 video elements and 166 lesson examples.

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.