Category: General Info And Helpful Hints

Whether you've built or bought your cigar box guitar, one of the first questions you will ask yourself is "What can I play as an absolute beginner on cigar box guitar?" This is a very easy 12 bar...

A fretless Cigar Box Guitar has no fret wires installed. Without fret lines, it’s difficult to play in tune, so frets are usually marked even on a fretless guitar. A fretless instrument is often...

The 7th chord ( the dominant 7) is played as a major chord with an added  flattened 7th note of the scale e.g. In open G tuning we can play a D7 as 7 7 5:  The minor 7 chord is based...

To add a third note to turn the open string G power chord into G major, we can use our little finger ( pinkie) to press down on the top string to add the 3rd note of the scale. This is not found on...

The simplest way to play a minor chord on a cigar box guitar is to play the barred power chord and add your little finger to the 3rd fret above that barre on the first string only. E.g. A minor is...

You may have seen 3 string players just use their finger or a slide to play a chord and wondered how this is possible. A power chord is made up of the 1st note or root and the 5th note of the...