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Permalink Reply by Benjamin Miller on July 31, 2019 at 7:16am

Also I would be looking to play mainly country music or Rockabilly music. Is there plenty of resources for chords and tabs etc for country music?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on July 31, 2019 at 10:27am

Welcome Ben.

There are some tabs onsite. Check the essential pages How to play CBG and some of the links on the right side of the page. There's a lot of tabs on site, but I can't remember where at the moment. Someone else will know if you can't find it where I mentioned.

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Permalink Reply by KOOL DOG HOOCH on July 31, 2019 at 1:06pm

Welco

Welcome to Asylum Ben the "Hotel California" of CBG builders. In the essential page, go to how to play. Glenn Watts ,Shane Speal, Del Puckett are all good videos to learn from. On you tube you have " Uncle Mike". Justin Johnson(I belive that's his name) are all valuable resources. If you hit a snag just ask, someone here has done it or something close to it to give advice. Once again welcome.

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Permalink Reply by Benjamin Miller on July 31, 2019 at 6:25pm

Cheers guys will start having a look around

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on August 1, 2019 at 1:21am

for rockabilly a fretted CBG would be best especially as you say you havent played before. trying to get the right note on a fretless is a lot harder. you can still play slide on a fretted CBG.

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Permalink Reply by Benjamin Miller on August 1, 2019 at 9:28am

When you say fretted do these have to be raised frets or can they just be marked onto the neck i.e. cut in? Sorry for the silly question

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on August 1, 2019 at 11:28pm

real raised frets..lol

the idea of frets is that if the string is tuned correctly then each tone at each fret is correct in pitch. on a fretless you dont get the "stepped "effect and the pitch changes as you finger moves up and down the neck of the guitar.so if you dont get it exactly in the right spot the note will be off pitch.

example would be when a child learns the violin.. no frets so the pitch is off untill they play enough to learn where exactly to put a finger for the note they want...

and there are no silly questions. we all have to learn from scratch at some time in our lives. i just happened to start a few years before you.lol

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Permalink Reply by Clint Spotts on August 5, 2019 at 1:45am

Hi Ben - don’t worry about making mistakes...that’s how we all learn! Don’t chase perfection...you’ll never reach it. Have fun and play hard. 

Remember:  If they don’t know what you’re doing they don’t know if you’re doing it wrong!

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