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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.
He
Read more…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…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
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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…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
Found object guitars are popping up everywhere! We have two new viral videos this week featuring guitars made from an axe and a car air filter. If you have a wild instrument of your own, post it in the comments below.
Reverend Peyton Plays and Spl
Read more…Amazing Grace continues to be one of our most requested lessons. Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply shows you how to play the entire thing using just one finger. You'll need a 3-string cigar box guitar tuned to GDG.
We heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend that Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply has taken the great singalong rocker, Take It On the Run by REO Speedwagon and arranged it for one-finger playing! You'll need a 3-string cigar box gu
Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply has broken down Creedence Clearwater Revival's classic Bad Moon Rising and shows you how to play the entire thing with one finger! You'll need a 3-string cigar box guitar tuned to GDG.
Shane Speal has been championing the 3-string "EEB" tuning for years and has written several songs with it. In this lesson, he shows how you can start playing your own lush ballads by simply using two fingers for a moveable chord. It also includes
Read more…Cigar Box Nation founder, Shane Speal delves into the jazzy side of blues with this T-Bone Walker inspired riff. Speal takes Walker's rhythm style and transposes it for a three-string, slide cigar box guitar in the Open G tuning (GDG). You'll need
Read more…Huntsville, AL guitar builder, Scott Griepentrog was interviewed by Shane Speal at the 2017 New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival as part of the Builder's Forum. The idea was to learn more about the builders and try out their various handmade instrum
Read more…Shane Speal's back with one of the most useful lessons for cigar box guitar sellers looking for the ultimate riff that will draw people to their booth. Speal shows how to use a simple G major scale on a three-string slide CBG and a Roland MicroCube
Read more…Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply takes one of the most popular songs of the 1970's teaches you how to play the entire thing with one finger! This John Denver classic is very easy to play using Glenn's simplified technique. You'll need a 3-
Read more…Seasick Steve is a force of nature... a blues superstar who has been dominating stages in Europe.
He burst forth with a performance that went viral. In it, he flogged a 3-string beat-up guitar. Since then, he has been adding homemade instruments
Read more…If you've ever wanted more info on the guitars Seasick Steve is playing, including some of the homemade instruments he uses, check out this video.
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You'll need a 4-string cigar box guitar set up for slide. In this lesson, Shane Speal strings his guitar with E,A,D,G strings from his signature string set.
Tuning for this lesson: A (bass range), A (one octave hi
Read more…I've been recording my own music for years in dribs and drabs, but stepped up a few gears since joining the Nation, some members have asked me how i record music, so here we go!
I was always testing music making hardware and software, reading magazin
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