A E A – Beginner Cigar Box Guitar

Cigar Box Guitar Chord Shape Diagrams: Beginner Tips

If you are moving on from one finger barre chords you may be wondering how chord shape diagrams work for a Cigar Box Guitar. Here are my beginner tips: These diagrams are drawn with the...

Cigar Box Guitar: Introduction To A E A Tuning

Most people tune their 3-string Cigar Box Guitar to G D G, but there are many other tunings available and one of these is A E A . This means that your guitar will be tuned up a tone ( or 2 half...

Movable Chord Shapes Based On Power Chords

It's very useful to have some movable chord shapes in your head as you begin to play songs or write your own. The downloadable PDFs below are useful for beginners trying to move on from 1-finger...

Chord Shapes For A Cigar Box Guitar Tuned A E A – Part 1

When you tune to A E A, the Cigar Box Guitar is tuned in the common I V I ( 1 5 1) tuning. Open strings play the root or I chord with the IV ( 4th chord) at the 5th fret and the V ( 5th chord) at...