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Somewhere Over The Rainbow on four string CBG

Somewhere Over The Rainbow, played on four string cigar box guitar. This is the first thing I have put here using fingering rather than just slide. I really wasn't getting fingering, which I don't really understand, but for some reason something clicked and so here is my first attempt at doing something with fingering and some slide.

Funnily enough learning this coincided with that arrival of a really super gift. Keni Lee's CD 6 which uses the same tuning intervals on three strings as the upper three on the four sting that I am using. I am only just starting to go through the lessons, but it makes a lot of sense.

The guitar is tuned GDGB. The guitar has both humbucker and two piezos in the bridge. He amp is a Kustom Arrow 16DFX, set to the clean channel with the three EQ knobs level and some reverb/chorus.

By the way, if you want to hear/see how it should be done go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ubVGiyAhkY
and find the extraordinary Tommy Emmanuel playing what I think is the best version I have heard.

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Comment by Boxy Music on December 3, 2011 at 11:08am: Nice one John, a unique version of a great song. And how about that Tommy Emmanuel eh? Phew!

Comment by Juha K on December 3, 2011 at 6:33am: Well played mate!

Comment by NightOwl on December 3, 2011 at 6:15am: You seem to have adapted quite well to playing without the slide. Good job. Look forward to hearing more.

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on December 3, 2011 at 6:05am: Hi.

Thank you all for the encouragement. Jim. I think we all know that people mean what they say in a constructive way, and that includes you. Don't be hard on yourself. Now, let's move on.

The neck is attached to the lid of the box and the strings go through to a brass plate on the back of the neck. If I can I will put a pic of that up tomorrow.

Thanks again for all the comments. All the best.

John

Comment by Mr.C on December 3, 2011 at 5:16am: Did you run the strings through the back of the box.

Comment by Mr.C on December 3, 2011 at 5:14am: I would post more constructivly but on a smart phone typing is slow going

Comment by legnahkra on December 3, 2011 at 4:46am: man this was really good... took me to some strange - nice feeling..! like it a lot... please do more like this..! by the way, that baby has excellent sustain..!

Comment by Mark Bliss on December 3, 2011 at 3:14am: There is no question that Keni Lee Burgess is peerless when it comes to helpful contributions to this site and the CBG movement!

And both Keni and John tend to be more than a little modest. Dont change a thing!

My 2c

Mark

Comment by Keni Lee Burgess on December 3, 2011 at 12:41am: Thank you John for your reply. Enjoy your practice, Keni Lee

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on December 2, 2011 at 11:05pm: Hi Richard.

Yes. It's the same guitar, but in fact it has been playable for quite a while. It's just that I was making other ones that sort of overtook it. For some reason I pretty much ignored it for a while. It isn't completely finished even now.

Thanks for the comments on the video.

All the best.

John