Reddit reviews Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar (Guitar Books)

I suggest you take a look at "The Art of Contemporary Travis Picking: How to Play the Alternating Bass Fingerpicking Style" and consider picking up "Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar" if that's what you're interested in. I have both of them and they helped me get a footing in the style - The former has a lot of great songs for you to learn that you can spin your own variations on and play around with, and there's a followup to it for when you get more advanced. Good luck!

This book starts at zero and takes you through learning finger style blues:
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Fingerstyle-Blues-Guitar-Books/dp/0825625564

Here is a PDF of that book, but of course without the CD:
http://tommyemmanuel.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/beginning-fingerstyle-blues-guitar.pdf

Edit: In fact, that same site has a whack of PDF books on the topic here:
http://tommyemmanuel.wordpress.com/fingerstyle/

It is a bit like the RL Burnside type of style?

On the song I listened he uses a finger style drone note and plays repeating riffs on the high strings... on electric. Some songs are a type of "trance blues" staying on one chord.

If you work through a book like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Fingerstyle-Blues-Guitar-Books/dp/0825625564

He is basically playing traditional fingerstyle blues on an electric with bit of overdrive (not alternating the bass note, keeping it on one string). Lightning Hopkins RL Burnside etc. If you know 12 bar blues and blues scales then you can make this stuff up pretty easily and develop your own riffs... important is to practice with a tapping foot/metronome. Mix chords and lead parts without losing track or rhythm.

The book, "Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar" provides a decent intro to travis picking and blues. I'd recommend checking that out.

I love this book... if you enjoy blues....https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Fingerstyle-Blues-Guitar-Books/dp/0825625564

Start with these two books:

http://www.amazon.com/Hal-Leonard-Blues-You-Book/dp/B000FH4OFU

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http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Fingerstyle-Blues-Guitar-Audio/dp/0825625564

This is the classic book on fingerstyle blues for beginners:

https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Fingerstyle-Blues-Guitar-Books/dp/0825625564/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480794244&sr=8-1&keywords=fingerstyle+blues

It helped me a ton when I was starting. Great technical advice too

This book is really great, I've used it a lot for blues students and fingerstyle exercises.