The best in blues and blues-based licks, riffs and techniques with a dose of historical perspective to put it all into place are presented in this book. It includes standard notation and tab, plus online access to 86 demonstration audio tracks.

Lessons include: scales and target notes, chord subsitution, open-string turnarounds, blues vamps, boogie-woogie alternatives, bottleneck blues, cool blues, 8-bar blues, Memphis soul, British blues-rock, Delta blues, and more; plus artist-specific lessons on B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, and Freddie King.