Cigar Box Guitar Playing For Guitar Builders: Hints and Tips For Absolute Beginners
I know there are a fair number of Cigar Box Guitar builders who don't want to spend ages learning to play their builds, but just want a few tunes to illustrate how good their builds sound. If you...
Acoustic Cigar Box Guitars can be used to play slide guitar. They are usually tuned to open tuning and are either unfretted or have a high string action as this will eliminate a lot of fret buzz. The...
No Particular Place To Go: Beginner Tabs For Cigar Box Guitar
This lesson is a combination of fingerpicking the melody and strumming the chords. You will need to be able to play the following 1- finger barre chords: A powerD powerE power2nd fret7th fret9th...
Cigar Box Guitars are traditionally made using discarded cigar boxes, but other wooden boxes can be used. Cardboard boxes are best avoided but metal tins can be used. A cigar box of approximately 10...
Choosing a guitar amp is such a personal choice but many Cigar Box Guitarists want something easy to set up and play. Many Cigar Box Guitarists like to use an amp that is fairly portable and the...
With only 3 strings it might seem that you can't play traditional arpeggios or broken chords, but here is a simple way to play Major and minor arpeggios: Use the little finger on the top string to...
