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 Charlotte Henry on January 7, 2012 at 3:57pm

Wow! That was fantastic!  Love that sound!

Comment by Paul 'PapaHogg' Smith on January 7, 2012 at 10:11am

Sounds great too!

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on January 5, 2012 at 1:14pm

Hi Ian.

You are very kind. How about benevolent dictator? I think democracy has had its day anyway and dictators are normally better paid.

Comment by Ian MC Donald on January 5, 2012 at 6:34am

John for prime minister 

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on December 30, 2011 at 11:12pm

Hi there.

Thanks for leaving the comment.

All the best and happy New Year.

John

Comment by J.Rob on December 30, 2011 at 2:29pm

Playin the Gospel nice work!!!!

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on October 17, 2011 at 9:12am

Merci Philippe.

C'est vraiment gentil de votre part à tout commentaire.

Tous les meilleurs.

John (I do hope that says what I think it does)

Comment by Phill Hill Charlie on October 17, 2011 at 8:12am

Que c'est beau...j'adore ce titre....I love how you play it...

...°<[:-) [---]==={

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on October 17, 2011 at 6:07am

Hi there.

Thanks for the comment. I know how good you are at making instruments with a deep sound so I am particularly pleased to get your feedback.

All the best.

John

Comment by Redneck Recycling on October 16, 2011 at 7:02pm
nice cbg n great pickin roadkill !!!!

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