Our cbg were born for the blues .... we see videos of blues ..... but, and the other styles? Funky, rock, pop ..... there's nothing on them?
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I've always argued that cbg weren't made for the blues. They were made for the music of the day. The very first recording of a cbg is a song called 'Beans'. Nothing to do with the blues. I've also heard interviews. People talking about their grandparents playing country and gospel music on home made instruments. Cigar box guitars are now and have always been guitars. They are made to play what ever music you like.
Yup, I second that opinion Cause. I play very few blues tunes on my CB instruments and lean more to folk, pop, and traditional Appalachian music. Looking back at my vids of the last few months I've got stuff like This Masquerade, Tears of a Clown, Rainy Night In Georgia, Hallelujah, Durang's Hornpipe and a few blues tunes here and there. Jose, if you look a little deeper you'll find every style from classical to Django Reinhardt, and much much more all played on CB instruments.
Here's one of my favorite guys on CBN who plays a wide variety of styles.
I'll third that opinion and was going to link Cpt. Nemoff too. CBGs are tailor made for the blues, but I'm no bluesman so I play whatever I'm into at the time. The real trick is to sound like yourself...
YOWZER! Jim, I'm glad you posted that link to Captain Nemoff. That was awesome!
And I like it that you step out with different styles in your videos. Makes me not feel like such an outsider not playing the blues myself.
I've thought about that before Moritz because it seems like a good idea but there are a couple of hurdles. The first is that most fretted CBG's use chromatic fretting whereas dulci's are diatonic. This of course means that fret numbers on tabs won't correspond. Fret #2 on dulci gives an f# but you get an e on CBG even if both are tuned Dad. The other problem is that on dulci the strings are "backwards" compared to CBG. With a dulcimer in your lap the high, melody string or strings are closest to the player's body. If you hold a CBG in your lap it's the low string near your belly. This makes tab more confusing than it needs to be. In the last couple of years there have been more tab books and resources here on CBN that are specific to CBG's available.
Thanks Jim, I was just thinking about dulcimer tabs as an opportunity to get familiarized with other musical stiles and traditions.
I totally agree too! Y'all feel free to throw stones at me, but I don't listen to the blues. I wanna play (and do play) what I like to listen to. I'm learning some blues CBG to play with my friends who play the blues, but it's not my first choice. I appreciate the blues, but I like pop rock. If feels freeing to say that here, even tho I know some of you guys will choke on my taste. :)
And in more shameless self promotion, I just shared this tutorial of Dire Straits "Money for Nothing" on CBG today.
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