Here are a few Christmas arrangements to wrap your fingers around in Open D (DADF#AD) guitar tuning from the Open D Guitar Christmas Songbook. Both songs, “O Come, All Ye Faithful” and “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” arranged with notation,...
It’s that time of the year to grab your ukulele and learn a few Christmas classics. Here are three tunes to wrap your fingers around in order of difficulty: I Saw Three Ships, Deck the Halls, and What Child is This? Ukulele Strumming Patterns in 6/8 Time...
Cigar Box Guitar Jazz Blues Lesson I’m going to tackle a jazz blues on today’s cigar box guitar blog post. Playing jazz on the cigar box guitar is likely not the first thought you have when learning this instrument. Still, I have to say, not only is it...
Flatpicking on the guitar means to use a pick or plectrum to strike the strings, as opposed to fingerstyle where you use your fingers or finger picks. I’ve compiled 12 useful tips and techniques to help you improve your skills at Celtic Flatpicking, though the tips...
My composition teacher would often say, “music is not words, and words are not music” which meant it is difficult to describe music with words and vice versa. I believe he might have also added—numbers are not music, and music is not numbers. As...
Seven Tips for Playing Better Barre Chords Learning barre chords can be a pain for most beginner guitar players. Some students just give up and play open position chords or use a capo if there are barre chords in the song. Eventually, not learning to play barre...
Popular Chord Progressions on the 3 & 4-String Cigar Box Guitar Here are five popular chord progressions you will recognize. Wait, do you know what a chord progression is? A chord progression is just a bunch of chords that get repeated and form the harmony of...
A great way to master chords on the cigar box guitar is to memorize the most common chord shapes, or “moveable chords.” Moveable chords allow you to keep your fingers in the same shape and change the chord name by moving to a different fret. For example,...
Welcome to the Kalymi Music Shop. Visit the main shop page here Kalymi Music has been publishing educational music books and arrangements globally since 2014. We continue to develop innovative learning for musicians of all levels and cover various instruments,...
The Complete Cigar Box Guitar Chord Book is the most extensive library of chords ever assembled for the 3 and 4-string cigar box guitar. With over 2000 chords, chord progressions, strumming patterns and exercises to become a CBG chord master. The chords are shown...
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