Basic techniques for cigar box guitar playing
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- A few tips and pointers..unprepared and unrehearsed...just recorded in a break in my working day, still dusty from the workshop, as you can see from my shirt and cap.
www.chickenbonejohn.com/
Hello John
I want to say thank you giving me some hope. I'd been a multi-instrumentalist for the better part of my life. All the usual suspects, Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle, Keys, Dobro. Bouzouki, etc. But back in 2013 I suffered an ischemic stroke that almost killed me. It took away my finger dexterity, and hand/arm strength, and some stability in my left side. I was devastated, I'd been a singer, songwriter, and musician all my life (70 + years), and suddenly I can NO longer play anything. Then our son gave me a Cigar Box guitar kit for Christmas 3 years ago. I had been a guitar builder since the 70's so I loved the idea of building one, but the realization that I could no longer play kept me from finishing it, until I saw our videos and the light bulb light up!! I subscribed immediately. I realized the I don't have to form chords with it, I can just "one finger" the notes and try using a slide. Whether this will actually work or not remains to be seen, but at least NOW there's some hope. Thank you. I look forward to watching any of your future videos.
God bless:
Dave
Thanks much, Learned more in 10 minutes than 10 years switching up multiple cigar box guitars. Look forward to giving it another whirl
Regards David
I love your videos chickenbone John!💚🤠💜💙
Too kind!!!
This is the BEST video on Technique I have seen. Thanks you so much for offering your thoughts on playing.
due to an accident i lost the tip of my ring finger. I thought it was the end of my guitar playing. I had to leave the band. 3 string slide will allow me to play again. Thanks for the lesson
Excellent job John. Best beginner guitar lessons so far. You just got you a new subscriber. It's nice to know that there's people out there that will show you how to play instead of showing you how well they can play.
absolutely superb!
A master class thank you so much.
Really useful lesson John. Thank you for caring about those less talented than you, a good quality have, and you have it in abundance my friend.
Thanks very much Chickenbone John.
I only just started playing Cigar Box Guitar about 3 months ago.
I cannot play with a Slide properly yet. You explain it very well and you are a great Cigar Box Guitar player.
Thanks
Wonderful!! I took away a few new things that nobody's told me/called me on. Loved your description of the left hand like jelly and just taking up enough of the weight of the slide to get a clean sound.
Thanks John. I always keep these type of tutorials in my playlist for easy access. I think they're excellent for all player, irrespective of their skill level. They iron out any bad habits that are inevitably picked up over time. I find half an hour or so of exercises each day works wonders.
Hey Chicken bone! Kool dog here, I learned how much I've been doing wrong just by watching this video. Thank you very much!
Well, I don't know about doing things wrong, I just use what I've learned from others and what works for me.
@@chickenbonejohn714 what I meant was that I hold the neck in the web of my hand and everything else you mention.
thank you for sharing your knowledge. Thoroughly enjoyed that.
im starting to make my own cbg's.ive been a drummer since ican remember but have always wanted to play bluesey guitar.the 3 string slide cbg is great ive got 2 songs almost done.
Brilliant as usual CBJ can't believe you get time to do a video in between making all them ace guitars mate , it just shows your dedication to your Art,which is so much appreciated,and to those who are pondering
About buying a CBJ cigar box guitar ponder no more as I can guarantee that these are top quality instruments and that alot of dedication and love for the music and instrument has been put into every one of them , keep em coming.cheers kev
Thank you for this video... Lot of great tips that explain solutions to several problems I've been having (I've been doing it wrong! lol) Thanks again.... - JD
Very clear - very informative - thanks!
Really useful lesson, Thanks John
So fun and this makes me want to get ( or make) a CBG of me very own!
Thank you for sharing skills.
Great lesson!!!
Many thanks..if it helps a few people, than that's good to know.
Awesome job.
nicely done....don't worry about what you can't do....do what you can and do it well...your approach is dead on.... oh....and practice
Excellent video. Now I know where I'm going wrong!
Hi, and love your video. It's just what I need. I will be finishing my cigar box guitar today (if the parts come) and really looking forward to getting started on it. I do play the guitar and mandolin but never have played a 3 string cigar box. Just the way to hold it is big for me in your video. My box is going to be VERY small so I see you can hold it the classical way. I'm going to have to do that. It's to short. But I'm ok with that. That's how I originally learned on the guitar. Thanks so much for the video!!
Sounds like a Hinkley. Short and small, anyway.
Glad I dropped by. Not sure about 3 string yet but I think I'll have a go at making one just to find out... Cheers
you're a legend mate!
thanks , very very good,
Gaz
Thank you mate !
Thanks John Great
Great stuff, man ...
Nice to meet you, brother ...
very good thanks, never gave much thought as to how Im even holding a guitar!
the little things
That's been really really helpful! Thank you for doing this.
I'm here in the U.K too so I'm gonna save up and try to buy one of your guitars...I don't have the skill to make one myself. At the moment I'm tyring to do this on a bad 6-String that I've just strung 3 strings on to!
Thanks again. Derin
Ha, ha! That’s what I thought of doing!
Cheers John gave me a good few tips as I'm just starting out
cheers
Thx you !!! ;)
Hi,
I want to build a cigar box guitar. Can you tell me how many frets you should have on the neck and is the distance between the but and bridge important. I was going to copy my acoustic guitar.
Hi John . . . thanks for sharing, your post rekindled my interest to craft a cigar box. I noticed the frets in your CB which looks like it adopted guitar. If you won't mind, can you give me some points fret to fret distances and the 12/12 distances or the nut to 12th fret and the 12th fret to bridge. Would appreciate any feedback. Thanks and hope to see more of your posts.
I got the idea of testing the pitch with a guitar tuner, in case they put the frets in the wrong spot. I’m sure the intonation is good on CBJ’s guitars, but I’m buying a $50 piece of junk. I’ll pick up a good one if I can learn this stuff.
Hi, nice tone there - what scale length/string gauges are you using?
at 12:50 you say you're playing the top and the middle
but it looks like you're playing the string on the bottom and the middle string
so apparently I've been totally confused as to what "top" means
Hey man that was fantastic, I really appreciate it very much. I do hope that you will take the time to put together the follow up video you mentioned... I believe it would be truly beneficial... Thanks again,.
What are the best strings and combos to use for 3 string cigar box?
Depends on what tuning you are in as regarding what gauges to use, but at ChickenboneJohn we offer a range of strings, handmade in the UK, specifically made just for cigar box guitar. www.chickenbonejohn.com/collections/guitar-strings
the slide has to be glass it just sounds the best
i have been searching the youtube sites, but have not come across who plays melody songs using cbg 3 strings, all i see is blues, rock. is cbg only for this type of music
HI, you can play any type of music on them, they are good for folk, celtic, Americana, reggae, African Hi-Life, limited only your imagination.
Super stuff. If you could do some instruction on the right hand - that would be excellent also. Thanks John.
would you do an tutorial on a 2 string as well
2 string's not my thing I'm afraid.
There isn't another one, unless I have a Doppelgaenger.
Why do you call the Bottom string the top? I'm just learning and that just confused me a little?
I call the bottom string the bottom string and the top string the top string, because that's the way it is!!! But seriously, when we talk about bottom and top strings, it's about the pitch, so alternatively call them low and high. It is nothing to do with the physical position , it is all to do with the pitch. Think of a violin or a double bass - there is physically no "top" or "bottom" string, it has to refer to pitch, there is no other logical way of referring to it.
@@ChickenboneJohn ok thank you that makes sense now I appreciate you taking the time to answer.
Is this ChickenboneJohn from Cigar Box Nation?
TONY KART.....Hell yea...
Unfortunately for the karting side of things, my guitar business took off in around the second year that I was racing my twin Subaru TonyKart, so we've had little track time with it over the past few years.
The top string is the highest sounding note, bottom string is the lowest sounding string. That's the normal naming convention for all stringed instruments.
That’s backwards from a 6 stringer, right?
@@jaybarber68 Not at all. The the naming convention is the same for all instruments in terms of what is the "top" and "bottom" strings. "Top" is highest pitched, "bottom" is the lowest pitched, it has nothing to do with the physical position of the string. Consider a violin or double bass - you cannot define the string as top or bottom by its physical position (a fiddle being held almost horizontal and a bass pretty much vertical), it can only be done by the pitch that the string is tuned to. A lot of guitar players (in my opinion mistakenly) call the string that is physically closest to them the "top" string because it is highest up with respect to the floor, but that makes no sense at all in musical terms.
@@ChickenboneJohn Thank you very much, I understand you. I took guitar lessons way back in 1978, but she just taught us some open chords (but nothing for the right hand), no strumming patterns. You’re as close as formal training as I ever got! I know nothing about music theory. I’m playing a 1960s Airline acoustic with 3 strings taken off! How much for a genuine Chickenbone, crafted in the Midlands of England?
@@ChickenboneJohn Oh, yeah, I forgot to say - like a violin, petal and lap steel guitars are the same too. Their strings go from side to side, instead of up and down😀
I hear of intonation a lot?
Gdg
just copy your acoustic, or order a fretboard from john