A while ago NightOwl put up a two part tutorial on how to play Amazing Grace and I learned it on a 3 string. This guitar is a 3 string with an additional bass string, one octave lower than the lowest of the three normal strings. You can easily adapt any three string piece to work with the extra bass string. If anyone wants to see the amp settings there is a picture in the first (oldest) of the comments.

I'm afraid that the video is a bit over exposed. The camera was set to manual and I shot quite a bit. This was taken from later in the recording and the light levels must have risen a bit.

Because there is a lot of interest in NightOwl's excellent tutorials here are the links:
Amazing Grace cbg tutorial Part 1
and
Amazing Grace cbg tutorial Part 2

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Comment by The Phrygian Kid on March 2, 2012 at 10:33am

nice job Maw, real classy, and a nice sound too

cant believe you got 1200 views thats awesome.  I done mind bending shit that only gets a hundred.  Bravo sir

Comment by Jamie MacBlues on March 2, 2012 at 10:04am

BTW John, ah already watched this vid a while ago, but as was pretty new to channel, was watchin what ah wis sayin. Now ye ALL know ma sense of humour, thought  ah'd have a wee laugh re GITAR. IS very neat playin, BTW :) 

Comment by Jamie MacBlues on March 2, 2012 at 9:59am

Nice one John. But ya gave me a bit of a fright wi that Gitar/s of yours. Thought ah wi seein double again. Seein double not THAT  firghtnin, but it  is when leads into the dreaded DTs.LOL  Nice playin, ma man:)

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on March 2, 2012 at 9:19am

Hi there.

Thanks for leaving the very generous comment.

All the best.

John

Comment by smokestack guitars on February 29, 2012 at 5:09pm

Nice playing John, cool looking guitar as well with a nice tone.

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on February 26, 2012 at 10:00am

Hi.

Thanks for the comment. Very much appreciated.

All the best.

John

Comment by THENUGE on February 25, 2012 at 11:05am

wow man...that was incredible

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on February 10, 2012 at 8:12am

Hi Keith. Yes. You are right. I have got much inspiration from watching her videos.

Comment by Jamie MacBlues on February 2, 2012 at 12:42pm

You' re welcome, John. Hopin to get more time to check everyone's channel  out soon. Commitments must see to for now are takin lot of my time. Stress levels high LOL

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on February 2, 2012 at 10:54am

Hi Jamie.

Thanks for the kind comments.

All the best.

John

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