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Comment by MadGomer on December 18, 2015 at 9:03am

Rick, I'm not the expert by any stretch on this but would suggest there's no "standard" three string tuning, but GDG seems to be the most common, although others like DAD are also frequently used.

Comment by Rick McKeon on December 18, 2015 at 7:00am

Standard Tuning for the 3-String CBG

Sorry if this topic has been beat to death, but I searched and didn't find the discussion. Just as there are many different tunings for the 6-string guitar and 5-string banjo but they each have a "Standard" tuning what would you consider standard tuning for the 3 string? GDG?

Comment by Pete Turner on July 4, 2015 at 2:24am

Thanks Niegel & thanks for all the how to's on youtube. You're the Man!

Comment by Nigel McTrustry on July 3, 2015 at 11:55am

One for the weekend!

Little Red Rooster.

Tuning = G D G

Comment by Nigel McTrustry on July 3, 2015 at 11:53am

Comment by jala on June 5, 2015 at 8:29pm

hello

it's like the pig all is good

justin johnson replayed several times' a difficult plan for have us back in the head and for those starting out and do not understand French as me is a plus, keni lee, glennwatt, shane speal

john savage nickel and I quote, how to play guitar beginner cigar box and many small videos and tabs, are true bibles, when you learned to swim or drive the monitor said và slowly but surely, here the same thing

good luck

Comment by Michael Walker on June 5, 2015 at 2:35am

is there any group for a 4 string? 

Comment by Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker on December 29, 2014 at 4:41am

Here is the latest addition to the CigarBoxGuitar.com FREE cigar box guitar knowledgebase: 3 printable sheets showing you the easiest and most-used chord forms for the 3 most-used keys C, G and D!

These are great for having on the table at jam sessions, since a large majority of popular songs are played in these 3 keys, and only use the chords shown on these sheets!

Here is what the sheets contain: two chord forms each of the "main" chords (root, fourth and fifth), and one each of the secondary chords (sevenths and minors):

Key of C: C, C7, F, G, G7, Am, Dm, Em

Key of G: G, G7, C, D, D7, Em, Am, Bm

Key of D: D, D7, G, A, A7, Em, F#m, Bm

I hope you find them useful!

Comment by TN Twang on December 10, 2014 at 9:27am

UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL:

Justin Johnson's DVD on "Playing Slide Guitar" works great for unfretted 3-string instruments--like the ones many of us are particularly fond of making.

I've been working through the DVD repeatedly using several unfretted 3-string instruments instead of 4-string instruments like he's demoing. The lessons transfer just great and would provide an excellent starting point for newcomers (without contradicting any of the lessons available from Keni Lee, Knotlenny, and others at CB Nation).

He gives 3 suggested tunings showing which strings to use for each. For the first tuning (which re-creates Keni Lee's tuning suggestions), just leave off the bass string to play on a 3-string instrument.

The second tuning (which channels the "open" tunings of Ellmore James and Duane Allman) can also be made into 3-string tuning by omitting the bass string. His Ellmore James lick is even easier on 3 strings than it is on 4!

Justin's third tuning is for a D-minor blues with melody and accompaniment. Just omit the F string and you have the D-a-d tuning familiar to all 3-stringers as Knotlenny's "say you see" tuning.  I actually believe that "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down" sounds better with the F string missing.

Instructions are thorough. No music reading is required. You only need to know the alphabet through letter G and be able to count to 15.

Try it... You'll like it!

TN Twang

Comment by Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker on November 16, 2014 at 3:08am

3-string CBG Chord form sheets - G Chords

This is the first in a series of printable PDF sheets of chord forms for 3-string cigar box guitars tuned to Open G "GDG". Click the link above or the image to the left to go to CigarBoxGuitar.com and view the post.

We also have a growing library of Song Tabs over there for 3-string cigar box guitars, be sure to check that out too!

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