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Permalink Reply by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on August 5, 2017 at 3:15am

Hi Ron.

I have the book by Brent Robitaille called "Cigar box guitar technique book" which has pretty much all the info for three and four string CBG tuned GDG or GDGB. It's packed with great stuff, chords, scales, riffs etc. Definitely recommend it.

For video I've purchased membership at learncigarboxguitar.com which has lessons for three and four string. Really helpful. Justin Johnson also does dvds for four string as do several others. There's another chap called Kenny Lee Burgess (I think that's his name?) who sells dvds on eBay for bottle neck, three and possibly four. Shane Speal has done some lessons on four string on YouTube too.

Best of fortunes finding what you're looking for but they're the ones that I've found helpful so far.

Bear :)

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Permalink Reply by Ronald Hanes on August 5, 2017 at 5:22am

Thanks guys. I really appreciate your response

I'm going to go for it. You've been very helpful

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Permalink Reply by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on August 5, 2017 at 5:35am

No worries Ron. Enjoy the journey and I'll be looking forward to seeing the videos of your performances soon! It's highly addictive this music thing and the CBG is massive fun. You can take things as seriously as you want by learning in depth or just be happy with the one-finger chord songs put together by Glenn Watt et al. Nobody is going to judge you whichever way you decide to do things and that in itself is incredibly liberating and, for me, spurs me on to WANT to delve deeper.

Best of fortunes with it all.

Bear :)

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Permalink Reply by Blues Frog on August 6, 2017 at 2:14pm

Another thing to think about is DGBE tuning which is the first four strings of a six string standard tuning. I did this with my custom four string. Plays like an electric guitar. sounds like one too.

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Permalink Reply by JL on August 7, 2017 at 3:07am

I believe Shane's  and Ben's friend/guest-star AJ coined that as Arkansas tuning

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Permalink Reply by JL on August 8, 2017 at 3:51am

my bad, EADG is Arkansas tuning, DGBE is Chicago tuning, d'oh

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Permalink Reply by Hollis Fenn on August 7, 2017 at 3:29am

This also the tuning for a baritone ukulele, so chord shapes, songs, help for that instrument should apply to 4 string gitty tuned that way

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 8, 2017 at 7:47am

You can also try the G7 tuning Shane recently posted about. G/D/F/B, it works real good.

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