Do you use your fingers when playing the cigar box guitar? Do you want to find some fingerpicking patterns you can learn to sound better? Then maybe it’s time to master one of the most popular guitar fingerstyle techniques and apply it to your 3 or 4-string cigar box...
Grab your mandolin, and let’s jam some blues! Though blues may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you picture the mandolin, be sure with a slide here and a hammer on there, you can be as expressive on this 4-string axe as any! Here’s a few...
Robert Critchley is a musician and songwriter and composes music for film and television. He has 30 years of experience recording, editing and mixing custom recording projects. His music has recently been featured on “American Pickers” on the A&E...
Improvising a music solo is intimidating when you first start out and also if you are a seasoned player. There is so much to consider when you make a solo. The theoretical part of knowing which scales to use to the emotional intent must be taken into account. It can...
Learning how to play the slide guitar can be one of the most expressive ways to play the guitar, be free of your tempered fret tuning, and seamlessly glide between notes. To make your guitar sing like an angel or stutter like a motorbike is possible with this tiny...
Cigar Box Guitars (CBG) are as you picture them—an instrument made with a cigar box, a wooden neck and steel strings attached. The instrument has grown in popularity as DIY kits, and building plans became readily available for hobbyists. However, the first mention of...
Welcome to the fantastic world of classical guitar! Maybe you have wanted to learn guitar and not sure where to start or have played for a while but want to try something different. I imagine you already have a nylon-string classical guitar or are thinking of buying...
Ok, I hope you picked up a few facts and tips from How to Play Classical Guitar in Lesson One. This lesson will introduce more advanced techniques and interpretive skills to take you to the next level of classical guitar. Here’s an audio track from the...
In today’s cigar box guitar lesson, we will learn Wicked Game by Chris Isaak. This is an approachable tune that would be a good challenge for a relative beginner player. You will need to understand how to read cigar box guitar tablature to play along with the video...
DADF#AD tuning or “Open D” is a fantastic tuning that many guitarists and resonator players use instead of standard guitar tuning. You can produce big lush sounding chords that give your guitar style a pleasant change. Open D is a very convenient tuning...
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