www.snowdenguitars.com Cigar Box Guitar Lesson with Mike Snowden Here are some tips for playing cigar box guitar blues with a slide! I am tuned to open G….. Utilizing A,D,G strings from a set of guitar strings Open G tuning: GDG Notes are listed from low to high (bass to treble) Check out my music at….. Download at CDbaby.com. cdbaby.com Downlaod at iTunes itunes.apple.com Also check out my hand made cigar box guitars at www.snowdenguitars.com Listen on mySpace www.myspace.com
Cigar Box Guitar Slide Blues Lesson Mike Snowden
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i love how baked and happy u look doin all of these..lol
i used light electric , 3,4,5 .ive tried it with acoustic but didnt like the sound. but thats just preference 🙂 there a lot of fun to play with
hey Mike , you made it real simple for me I am trying to learn, you are a great teacher, where do you live, let me come down for lessons
Thx!
nice video great lesson,… I use the 3rd 2nd and 2nd i get the most alsome sound , you might not think possable, there light electric with a humbacker pickup with a 24/.5 inc scale berch 3/16 ply wood 4.5x 9 incx1 3/4 red oak neck from southeast tx tree., small box not much room for pickup every one thats played it are begging me to build one for them its my 9th guitar
not sure if anyone replied to you or not but you just use a regular pack of medium acoustic guitar strings. And out of that pack he takes out the A, D and G strings (or strings 3, 4, and 5). So you could order them online or go to any music shop.
and can u send me a ebay link with some of these strings on your cigar box guitar tanks again
Hey you´re great I also want to make me a cigar box guitar but i dont know what strings i can use. My idea was to use normal steal strings from a normal western guitar but what string had it to be on the neck the thik one ore it had to be 3 thik ones i dont know. Can you help me? thanks
Well in fact, what I did was just muting the unwanted strings from DGDGBD so only the 3rd, 4th and 5th were able to resonate. =)
if you have a 6 string the tendency would be to tune the 4th string to a Min or Maj 3rd, this guy’s guitar is tuned gdg, which makes things a bit easier.
If you tune the the 4th string to the octave or to a fifth from the root, you can get a more country tang i don’t like it myself though i like to have the 3rd available so I can sound more heart broken
Adapting this to Open G on 6 string guitar, it doesn’t sound as awesome.
Gotta get a Cigar Box haha 🙂
nice riff.
Peace.
That sounds great thanks mate yr an inspiration i cant wait to sound like that ay:))
super…thanks for postin
Nice videos Mike, you make the cbg sound awsome.
im sitting here in frankston , victoria , australia , with my home made c.b.g , how do i play this , i cant even play a guitar ? these guys are picking away , yabbling about chords and things , and then i found this ! WOW! i can play this easy ,l and it sounds so friggin cool , im gonna sit here doin this all night !
Can you play some of the Allman Brothers Band, and show me?
You are AWEZOME dude!!!!
Ok Mike, it’s New years eve, and u made my facebook homepage to show everyone the homemade quitar and tallent. Until I can make one of these hope I can apply what I learned here to my six string. I am teaching myself. thanks for the video.
great stuff! i learn cbg this time, would you send me a little bit of tabs, please? spezial thanks:-)
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thanx real good
Great teaching skills & talent.
Great teacher.
don’t stop brother.. your good at this!