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Whoaaa.... new converts!!!! That's great.... I know everyone so far has said to start learning chords, but.... I would recommend that you find a youtube with a song build on a basic "12 bar blues" chord progression. Make sure your CBG is tuned to an open chord like DaD, GDG AEA etc and then play along with the song by simply fretting across the neck (using a slide or if your CBG is fretted, laying your finger across the neck). Listen and find the chord being played (there will be only there to find). You will accomplish a couple things. First, you will get a sense of relative positions of chords on your guitar neck and 2 you will quickly be playing music.
I know everyone wants to learn chords and notes and play scales (?) and all that on their way to becoming another virtuoso like Shane Speal, but if it's all sweat and little fun, you might miss the point.
I've used and studied and practiced different techniques (all recommended are good), but in the end, I had to find my own way to play. That's really what the "no rules" mantra of CBGing is all about. Take the resources that you have and figger out something that works for you.
No better place to start than the "12 Bar Blues"!!!
the best, Wichita Sam
Two simple scales (right from Shanes or Keni Lee's videos) on the 1st string (the one closest to the ground)
1st string tuned to a G - G major scale:
Open - 2 - 4 - 5 - 7 - 9 - 11 -12
Or the Pentatonic Blues Scale:
Open - 3 - 5 - 7 - 10 - 12
You can also practice those on the 3rd string if you're tuned Gdg since they're both G's just at octave apart. I'm still learning the scales on the middle string and can't share them off the top of my head. (Heck even those two I had to pick up the guitar to see what they were...but they come naturally now.)
My 1st CBG I actually wrote them out on the back of the neck to help me remember :)
Once you have them down just working on one string you can start to alternate the 2nd string open in between notes. Once you get used to that you can start to alternate the 2nd and 3rd strings open between the notes:
1st Open - 2nd open - 1st at 2nd fret - 3rd open - 1st at 4th fret - 2nd open - 1st at 5th fret - 3rd open.....
In both directions of course.
On the chord charts, just finger the black dots.
Two simple scales (right from Shanes or Keni Lee's videos) on the 1st string (the one closest to the ground)
1st string tuned to a G - G major scale:
Open - 2 - 4 - 5 - 7 - 9 - 11 -12
Or the Pentatonic Blues Scale:
Open - 3 - 5 - 7 - 10 - 12
You can also practice those on the 3rd string if you're tuned Gdg since they're both G's just at octave apart. I'm still learning the scales on the middle string and can't share them off the top of my head. (Heck even those two I had to pick up the guitar to see what they were...but they come naturally now.)
My 1st CBG I actually wrote them out on the back of the neck to help me remember :)
Once you have them down just working on one string you can start to alternate the 2nd string open in between notes. Once you get used to that you can start to alternate the 2nd and 3rd strings open between the notes:
1st Open - 2nd open - 1st at 2nd fret - 3rd open - 1st at 4th fret - 2nd open - 1st at 5th fret - 3rd open.....
In both directions of course.
On the chord charts, just finger the black dots.
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