Category: General Info And Helpful Hints

Here are some common chord shapes for a 3 stringed E B E guitar including the keys of E major and A major and their relative keys including relative minors. Technically the B shown is a B power...

A resonator cigar box guitar uses a metal resonator rather than the box lid to amplify the string sounds. It has a louder volume with a lot of sustain and can be designed to be played as a standard...

Your guitar does not sound in tune and you can't get it in tune- what's going on? New strings aren't stretched and won't hold their tuneMachine heads are poor quality and slipString action is too...

As a beginner to using an amplifier, I found everything very confusing. The controls have strange names and I needed to do quite a bit of research to work out how to make sense of it all. This post...

You can't just put steel strings  on your regular ukulele as this will damage the instrument, but you can now buy a steel stringed ukulele. Alternatively, buy or make a 4 string cigar box...

Because a cigar box guitar is tuned in open tuning you can play a chord with just one finger. The easiest way to play a chord on a cigar box guitar is to strum the open notes or use your finger or...