Chords, scales and tuning – Page 4 – Beginner Cigar Box Guitar

Fingerpicking Blues Chord Progression For Cigar Box Guitar

There are other blues chord progressions besides the ever popular 12 bar blues using the I,IV and V chords ( one, four and five) Today we are going to look at one with a softer, more chromatic...

G, D and A Major Scales On Cigar Box Guitar In Open G

There came a point when I just get annoyed with myself for continually hitting a wrong note when I was playing a melody on the Cigar Box Guitar. I realized this could be helped by learning a few...

Using The Minor Pentatonic Scale : Wayfaring Stranger

Today we are going to learn to play a simple melody in Dm ( D minor) on the 3-string Cigar Box Guitar. This is the pentatonic scale for D minor: There are 5 notes in the scale- 6 are shown...

Easier Way To Play In E On A 3-Stringed Guitar Tuned G D G

One of the problems with just using 1-finger power chords is that for some songs you have to move a long way up and down the neck so choosing your chord shapes carefully will help you to change...

Movable Major Chord Shapes With The Root On The 2nd String

Continuing the series on movable chord shapes we will look at other ways of playing movable major chords. If the root of the major chord is on the middle note of the 3-string guitar we can use a 4...

Movable Power Chord Shapes For G D G Tuning On Cigar Box Guitars

There are many movable chord shapes on the cigar box guitar. These are chord shapes that can be played in different positions on the fret board to give different pitched chords. Power chords...