Hi - Got my cgb up and tuned and now tring to play some music!
I have tried to follow some of the videos by Ben & Glenn with some success - I managed a few notes!
Stumbled across 'Chords made easy on the CB Gitty site -(https://www.cbgitty.com/news/3s
Can Mindbender, by the band Stillwater, be done on a three-string fretless guitar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yau1Ceo-ow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Sdv3os1b8
I'd like to give this a shot. Does it have any weird chords?
I get that the tal
Read more…Here's some charts I put together for Gdg and DAd open tunings. The charts give the power chord (which can be used for either a Major or minor chord) and the Major, minor and dominant 7 chords, minus the 3rd. The chords may not sound "complete" wit
Read more…I am so mega excited right now. I'm sure many, many of you have had that moment in your playing when things just began to click into place. I've been playing on a four string for the entire day after something clicked in my ability, or mind or whatev
Read more…Okay, you'll have to excuse me if this is a dumb question but I'm struggling to find info on three string scales in open E tuning. Is this because all I need to do is use the six string standard tuning and utilise the E, B, E strings information? I a
Read more…I've spent some time today trying to learn and memorize the pentatonic blues scale in open D tuning. Either I've got fat finger syndrome or very narrowly spaced strings. So I've got a few questions, if ya'll might indulge me.
Do acoustic guitars tend
Read more…Hi, I am a total beginner not just with a 3 string CBG or even beginner with guitar, I am a total beginner for music in general other than listening to it. I was looking at both Justin Johnson's DVD for 3 string guitar and the starter pack on learnc
Read more…Spent a couple hours this weekend working out chord charts for gbe tuning. I got Major, minor, dim, aug, and 7 chords. All the 7 chords are minus the root, since I've only got 3 strings to work with. The chords work though, especially if you have
Read more…Help! I'm hopeless. I need some basic slide lessons and I need to find a slide that fits my finger. Every slide I try is either too large and falls off, or is too heavy for my bad finger and I end up pounding on the strings. I have resorted to playin
Read more…I am a old guy trying to get to grips with the three string, my problem in the past is to learn ukulele and three srtring.In some regeons in the UK there seems to be a hot bed of experianced players but in my area I don't know of one ,play what I t
Read more…https://rickmckeon.com/cbglessons.html
For anyone who hasn't visited my 3-String site I have a bunch of free video lessons with diagrams and tabs at the link above. I am tuned EBE just to get a nice low bass, but the concepts apply to any 151 tuning
Read more…Hello all....
I have loaded up some ideas that i hope will help anybody play the cigar box guitar. At the moment all lessons are on my fretted 3 string tuned to GDG.
Lessons will work just fine for anybody who plays fretless as well. Ideas are for sl
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I'm knocking up some backing trax for my next course and don't want to do them in all 12 keys. I know a lot of people play in G, what else do you like to use?
Read more…Following Keni Lee's videos, I'm learning a lot about theory, and have developed this "booklet" of cheat sheets to help me transcribe and write songs. It includes fretboard charts, major and minor scale charts, chord analasis charts, and tab sheets.
Read more…I have a buddy who's just getting started on a three string. He asked me to tab Wild Honey for three string.
Here are the chords.
Wild Honey By U2
(0)In the days
(0)When we were swinging from the trees
(0)I was A (5)monkey
(5)Stealing honey from a
Read more…I have built several 3 strings and find the EBe tuning good for my voice.I just finished a 4 string and want to tune it EBe and wonder what the 4th string would be. EBe? any ideas would help and what gauge string should I use.
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I couldn't figure out which group to post this question in, so thought y'all might help with this question.
Other than the movie "Honeydripper", what are some other movies that have been made about Blues Guitar players?
kieta
Read more…so i thought i would ask you nice folks the best songs for total begginers to learn with? If we could compile a list of songs with tabs or notes that would be great and hopefully stop guitar meeting the wall at force with the 1000th poor rendition of
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On my last question about fretted versus non-fretted....the response actually overwhelmed me. (Must have been an interesting topic that folks have serious opinions about.)
So now I ask:
When my fretted 3-string guitar gets here, I plan
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