Let's do a little chicken pickin' today with my favorite hoedown lick. In this lesson, I break it down into an exercise that will build up your picking and Stubby Slide chops. Start slow and build up speed over time.
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April Mae & the Junebugs: "Blue Moon" the latest in The SUN Studio Sessions Video Series.
Recorded live at the historic and legendary SUN Studios in Memphis during the recording of their album SUN Kissed! Filmed on location at SUN and the Victrola D
Spring is coming! Let's get into the spirit with another incredible instrument by the folks over at Scrap Wood City. This three string tennis racket guitar uses simple pine wood, guitar tuners and a Strat pickup that is held in place with plastic
Read more…Shane shows the swagger and groove of the blues picking hand (and that constant right foot stomp) that is the foundation for the GROOVE. The high hat cymbal represents your tapping toe as you play.
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The crazy fellow known as Scrap Wood City is back with another junk instrument tutorial. This time, he's showing you how to make a well-playing diddley bow from a broom handle.
We're not sure which is more intriguing, his video editing or his cool
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THIS IS CIGAR BOX NATION WRAPPED UP INTO ONE VIDEO!!!
Nathan J. Roberts, Hal Robertson, Skeleton Key and Rob "Hillbilly" Ingram got together to make a cigar box guitar music video, featuring Nathan's original song "My CBG".
Roberts says of the vide
Read more…Ray Nutter of St. Augestine, FL is a giant in the founding of the modern cigar box guitar movement, but his instrument of choice is actually a washboard... a super sized, insane washboard! Nutter's creations have been known to contain several cymb
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Here's a wild guitar concept I haven't seen before. This three-stringer was crafted from a discarded exit sign by Gary Desrosiers. According to Desrosiers, he came across the plastic sign at a job site and inspiration struck.
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Read more…The early kick drums were made from wood. Back in the day big band sounds were really popular and room for 4 or 5 drummers was not possible. They needed a way to save space and the drum pedal way the answer. Now drum pedals are made from metal. I ha
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In all my years of teaching cigar box guitar through Youtube videos, no lesson has been more popular than a quick class I filmed on Seasick Steve's playing style. Recently, I fired up the camera and updated the information, giving closeups to the f
Read more…Here's just a few video clips of one amazing set by Samantha Fish. The place was PACKED with standing room only! Wow...what a show!
Samantha Fish closing out the 2018 New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival.
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The folks over at Scrap Wood City have taken the DIY Instrument idea to a new level with this wild contra bass built from an old washing machine. They've documented the entire process in this video. Be sure to scroll down for a link to detailed not
Read more…You've shaped the neck, cut the soundholes and put all those glorious electronics inside. Now it's time to attach the lid to the box!
In the video below, I show the simple way that I attach the lid. As you can see, I prefer to use "drop in lid" ci
Read more…Shane shows how to play a "bastardized" version of Keef's classic riffs. It's all about which notes you keep, which ones you throw away and which ones you play wrong...on purpose! Tune your three-string cigar box guitar to open G (GDG) and get your s
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Muddy Waters was one of my very first heroes when I was introduced to the blues. He had the swagger and the bravado like no other man who has walked this earth.
He also had a badass guitar technique played with reckless abandon.
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Read more…"Widow Someday (the evil diddley bow song) by Shane Speal and the Snakes. Video produced by Ronn Benway... entirely on his smartphone!
Scroll down for info on the diddley bow, too.
Widow Someday features two unique sounds: a harmonica fed throug
Read more…You asked for this one! Tune your three-string cigar box guitar to open G (GDG) and get your slide ready.
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Get the most out of your acoustic/electric cigar box guitars with an inexpensive piezo rod & preamp unit.
In this video, I show a simple mounting technique for neck-through cigar box guitars. The sound is fantastic and really allows a great tone re
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"Come on, brothers and sisters, KICK OUT THE CANS!"
For our final build-off contest of 2017, we're looking for your best canjos, cookie tin banjos and any other playable stringed instrument made from discarded metal containers. It can have one st
