This just popped up on my youtube watch suggestions.
A different way to make a CBG
Note from Shane: I've edited Timothy's original post to include the photo above and embedded video. (Great find, Timothy!.) There is also an entire tutorial on
Read more…Ok, so this lesson isn't as cool as "Born Under a Bad Sign," but it's definitely gonna get you playing A LOT better. Tune your three string slide cigar box guitar to GDG, grab a stubby slide and let's do this.
Note: The following plans were written by violin maker, Steven Miller and originally posted on Fiddlerman.com.
Cigar Box Fiddles have been known since the Civil War. Wooden cigar boxes had entered commerce by the middle of the 19th century, and pr
Read more…Another great viewer request featuring an obscure R. L. Burnside song. I had to create a new tuning in order to play it... and I love it!
First, here's the original song. You'll notice in my lesson that I tweaked the feel of the song a little bit
Read more…The viewer requests keep coming in! "I Ain't Superstitious" is one of the most challenging songs yet... but you can do it! I break the riff down into three parts for you to master. I'm especially thrilled to teach a song that is in the key of D.
Read more…You asked for more Howlin' Wolf... so you're gettin' more! For this lesson, I've taken the 1960 Chess Records version of "Back Door Man" and distilled the guitar parts down to a single 3-string cigar box guitar riff.
For reference, let's hear the
Read more…Viewer requests! Shane shows how to play two of Howlin' Wolf's biggest songs: "Smokestack Lightning," "Little Red Rooster" and "Asked Her for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)."
Tune your cigar box guitar to Open G to start the first lesson:
Next, we
Read more…Shane's back with another request...this time for the late, great Robert Johnson's "Preaching Blues." This lesson is for a 3-string slide guitar, tuned low to Open E (E-B-E).
First, let's hear the original.
Now on to the lesson. Take some time
Read more…Here's an easy way to grasp the blues scale on a 3-string fretted cigar box guitar. Shane uses a CBGitty Tin Pan Alley guitar to teach the scale, but you can use any fretted 3-string cigar box guitar. Tuning is Open G (GDG).
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Read more…I first heard JP Williams at the Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival last year. Unlike the other acts bringing primal, slashing gutbucket blues and folk, Williams took the stage to deliver classic, uptown Chicago blues (and a touch of Memphis so
Read more…Get that ol' Son House tone! Here's some ideas for creating your own DIY Dobro... whether using a mailbox, inserting paint lids in your cigar box or even using actual resonator cones.
I show you several instruments from my own collection in the
Read more…One of the wildest concepts I've ever created in cigar box guitar design has to be the Peep Show windows. The idea started when I took a wooden humbucker pickup ring from C. B. Gitty and decided to use it as a sound hole. I've written about these
Read more…VIEWER REQUEST!
Tune your three string cigar box guitar to G7 (GDF), grab a stubby slide...and take that stick outta yer butt!
G7 tuning is easy to set up. Start with your normal Open G (GDG) and drop the high string one step down to F. It's a fun
Read more…The blues traces its origins right back to Africa, sharing rhythms, verse repeats and even a 5-note Pentatonic scale. As a blues musician, I'm always looking for those little connections back to the deepest roots, whether in the study of field holl
Read more…Jerome Graille is back with another close-up cigar box guitar video. This time, he tackles the Mississippi Fred McDowell classic, "You Gotta Move" with a touch of "Sittin' On Top of the World" at the turnaround.
He describes it: [This is] a
Read more…Let's play some music that sounds perfect on the back porch. In these two video lessons, I break down some "deep blues grind" sounds... those slithery, slidin' and moanin' riffs that make you tap your foot.
It ain't hard. You just gotta follow a
Read more…I came across these simple musical instrument projects at a children's tent at the 2018 Susquehanna Folk Fest last week. The main instrument is a freenote xylophone made from styrofoam cups and wrenches.
What you hear in the video below is a pale
Read more…Antique cigar box guitars offer one of the greatest glimpses into the history of these instruments. They allow us to look closely at the parts, the setup and give us new ideas for our own creations. Even focusing on the wear marks shows us how muc
Read more…Our favorite cigar box guitar & banjo duo is back! Hymn for Her just dropped an animated music video for their new single, "Blue Balloons." It is the title track from their Oct. 2018 upcoming release, "Pop-N-Downers."
More info at www.hymnforher
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