I feel I can play my power chords pretty well and play some rythem. Now I feel I'm ready to move on to the melody. I have Keni Lee Burgess CD4 but feel thats still a little too advanced for me (not really ready for the finger plucking). Is there anyt
Read more…Hi, I'm new here, and have become really fascinated with the idea of making and playing CBGs. (OK - I admit it - it was seeing Paul McCartney using one with Nirvana that reminded me that I wanted to try doing this...)
What I'm curious about is exam
Read more…I found this video on playing 12 bar blues on a CBG. It's apparently lesson 4 - has anyone seen Lessons 1 to 3? ANd can direct me to them?
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I have been watching and playing this video to death and have not yet figured out how to tune my CBG to play like this.
Please help.
Thanks.
Read more…I like to sing and play blues, I really like the key of E and just finished a CBG and would like the open tuning of E. Using the first 3 of a set tuning E A e would that be the open E tuning. It would be the I-E V-A and the D tuned up to I-e. Does th
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I'm new to the CBGs and newly learning how to slide play. I was wondering about the possible value of some of the more experienced player providing instruction, vids or tabs, on some of the more common licks, runs, turnarounds or even some
Read more…Hi Guys, well the time has come i have finished my first build (photos to follow) and now the real work starts cos i have to learn how to play the thing.
I have tuned it to an open G chord,Gdg and i want to try to figure out what that gives me. What
Read more…I am told that I need to angle the Bridge to compensate for areas that don't vibrate at the very top and bottom of the strings to get my CBG to play properly in tune, can anyone advise me on the direction and approximate degree of angle required.
Do
Read more…Ive been learning on a Tenor guitar and have now started with a 3 string CBG. its tuned to C-G-C,
the only problem I have is that I cant find any tabs or chord charts, and beacause Im new to the CBG world, Im struggling. I have watched Night Owls tui
Read more…So I bought a digital clip-on tuner from eBay. Tuning accuracy: ±0.5cents it said. Nice clear display. Looked really good. Only one problem. Most of the time when it says the guitar is in tune it isn't. It may be accurate to ±0.5cents but I am sure i
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Let me start of by saying I am not musically gifted. I am trying, I love music more than anything and would want more than anything to learn to play a cbg. Well I built one, I followed the advice and plans here. It turned out great , its a thr
Read more…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64T6ugyWXAA
And, how do I embed from YouTube to here? I see I can click the Media icon, and it asked for YouTube embed code, but, what is that? Is it an html <a href> tag or some such?
Read more…Heres an audio lesson from Mike Schmidt:
http://ia600703.us.archive.org/21/items/HomebrewMusic-RhythmBasicsWorkshop/RhythmBasics.mp3
Read more…Ok, much like Hal in the previous discussion, I just finished my first 4 stringer. Now, this isn't so much a question about chording and transposition...but this: I built this fretless. I watch vids of guys playing fretless all the time and it sounds
Read more…I'm finishing up my first 4 stringer, and just learning how to play guitar at all. I will probably tune it ADgb (middle 4 strings of "standard" 6 string tuning). If I understand tabs correctly, I should be able to play a standard tab, just move one
Read more…So I go to chordie and check out the chords for some songs. Now, here is where I have a question: It's listing (boys of summer for instance) the chords it uses are D C and G. Now, I look at a chord chart for my (2,3,4 string) DAD tuned guitar. I see
Read more…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMZm_olq12I&feature=player_embeddedhttp://youtu.be/CMZm_olq12I
This might make you think twice about needing a slide.
I was hoping I could embed the video in this page. I'm sure there must be a way to do it, but obv
Read more…just getting started w/ this cbg thingy and wanting to find some video lesson type stuff... wondering if there is a link to where KLB sells his cd's so I can get started w/ them and also if there are others out there that might have similar lessons i
Read more…As an old guy just started to learn to play my cbg
, actually infused into making a cbg by listening to sea sick Steve's albums bought for me for Christmas
I would really like to start to play some of his easier stuff,.I thought it would be great fo
Read more…Hi guys I am about to start building cbg with a resonator, although I am 69 years young I have never played a guitar of any sort. Would I be better making a three or four string and would I be better to build it fretted or fret less. Wich would be
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