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Amazing Grace on double neck CBG

A while ago NightOwl put up a two part tutorial on how to play Amazing Grace and I learned it on a 3 string. This guitar is a 3 string with an additional bass string, one octave lower than the lowest of the three normal strings. You can easily adapt any three string piece to work with the extra bass string. If anyone wants to see the amp settings there is a picture in the first (oldest) of the comments.

I'm afraid that the video is a bit over exposed. The camera was set to manual and I shot quite a bit. This was taken from later in the recording and the light levels must have risen a bit.

Because there is a lot of interest in NightOwl's excellent tutorials here are the links:
Amazing Grace cbg tutorial Part 1
and
Amazing Grace cbg tutorial Part 2

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Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on September 7, 2011 at 11:14am: Hi Darren, Russell and Shane.

I really appreciate the comments. Thank you very much indeed.

Russell. I put links to both tutorials further back in the comments. Well worth a look as is are the other videos she has posted.

All the best.

John

Comment by Russell Carlin on September 7, 2011 at 11:01am: That was beautiful John, really nice playing,and that guitar is as cool as anything I've seen on here,that has inspired me to look that tutorial up and have a go myself if its still on here,Top Notch ,10/10.

Comment by darren brown on September 7, 2011 at 11:01am: awesome .

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on September 7, 2011 at 10:42am: Hi Craig.

Thanks very much for the generous comment. Having the low string on it is just so much fun.

All the best.

John

Comment by Craig bluesbox williams on September 7, 2011 at 10:19am: That sounded great. i really liked the sound of the bass string.

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on September 7, 2011 at 10:15am: Hi Dave.

Thank you very much. I have to admit, I have been looking around for an amp with a bigger speaker after your comments at the weekend. If I can pick one up cheaply enough I will give it a go and see what difference it makes.

All the best.

John

Comment by Pyno on September 7, 2011 at 10:03am: That sounds really nice John, the bass string sounds fine

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on September 7, 2011 at 10:03am: Hi Chris.

Thanks for the nice comments. You're right, but a stills photographer and not a videographer, which I suppose is pretty obvious really.

Thanks again.

John

Comment by Chris Tinker on September 7, 2011 at 9:57am: Very nice..... Great guitar and great playing....

Though you've given away your profession with the comment regarding overexposure, I wouldn't have had a clue.....