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How to Play Cigar Box Guitar 3 String Secrets - Cool blues licks by Shane Speal

FOR 3-STRING FRETTED CIGAR BOX GUITAR
Shane Speal shows several simple blues licks you can play on a 3-string, fretted cigar box guitar.

Tuning: GDG
Strings used: AD&G strings from a pack of electric guitar strings
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Comment by Mr.C on October 13, 2012 at 7:41pm
I have two or three gooden wrote up a i post them shortly
Comment by Uncle John on October 13, 2012 at 7:28pm

A little harder here, but worth the effort.  Great sturf.

Comment by Jason Mills on October 13, 2012 at 7:44am

Cool stuff Shane,thanks!!!

Comment by ED (Bad Finger) on October 12, 2012 at 4:54pm

Ha!  I call it my version of the Infinite Monkey Theorem.  Given enough time, I'll eventually come up with something worth listening to.

Comment by Shane on October 12, 2012 at 4:44pm

ED, that's called "free jazz." LOL!

Comment by ED (Bad Finger) on October 12, 2012 at 4:43pm

Aw, man.  You're killing my Zen.  I picked these up by copying.  My MO is to have a sip of something strong and pick out different patterns until people stop looking at me funny and the cats stop yowling.

Comment by Shane on October 12, 2012 at 4:36pm

If this stuff was hard, I wouldn't be playing it!! I'm a simpleton. For as complex as my music is, it's all smoke and mirrors. This stuff is easy to grasp, easy to play and fun to crank up.

Comment by Shane on October 12, 2012 at 3:29pm

Thanks, TurtleHead.  The message needs to be screamed from the rooftops:  GET OUT AND PLAY!  So many people are getting in a rut of just building these things and perfecting them...  A perfect cigar box guitar?  IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!  These are the peasant instruments.  These are the instruments of the downtrodden.  These are meant to be played.

Get out of the woodshop for once and tune it up.  I'm showing simple tricks and secrets...no music theory, no hard stuff.  This is how I learned.  You can, too.

Comment by turtlehead on October 12, 2012 at 3:19pm

Good vids here Shane and I like the message.  Get out and play!  Thanks for the licks.

Comment by Shane on October 12, 2012 at 2:58pm

Amateurs borrow, professionals steal.  ;)

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