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 Eric Townsend on September 7, 2011 at 8:08am

Killer, John! Nice rendition!  What a neat build, too!  Sounds great   -- my next was likely gonna be a mutli-stringer Sitar/harp thingamajig -- may have to do an aluminum neck -- Any warnings or build issues I should think about  beforehand?  -- Funny you use a Micro-Cube...I took my last build over to a buddy's place to show him, and he has one...works great to quickly dial through the settings to find one sympathetic to the idiosyncrasies of each CBG.  

Comment by Kidd Filby on September 7, 2011 at 8:06am

RoadKill;

 

This sounds really good.  First I've seen aluminum necks... I like them.

 

Kidd

Comment by bemuzic on September 7, 2011 at 7:58am
very nice..is it an A bass string? and are they just broom handles? Been wondering about making something bassy and/or something with both. Not sure how strong the neck needs to be to take bass strings?
Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on September 7, 2011 at 7:57am

Hi Cameron.

Thank you for the kind words. Very much appreciated.

All the best.

John

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on September 7, 2011 at 7:55am

Hi David.

Thank you for the nice comment. This guitar seems to have eclipsed the others and now I am re-evaluating what I will do with some of the other boxes that I have.

Thanks again.

John

 

Comment by Crimson Toad on September 7, 2011 at 7:53am
perty nice music john...sounds great
Comment by David L. on September 7, 2011 at 7:47am
Well done John - a real nice sound.
Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on September 7, 2011 at 7:33am
This is a shot of the amp after recording the video. It is a Roland MicroCube and was placed just behind the camera, where the mic is.

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