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How to Play Money For Nothing on CBG Cigar Box Guitar

***It's easy to play this on 3 string! You just play the B string notes (there are only 2 in the riff!) on your high G. The 6th fret on the B string (my #1 string here) equals the 10th fret on high G string. For the second time through which uses the 8th fret on the B string here, that would equal the 12th fret on the high G string. You can do it! Maybe I'll make a 3 string tutorial for this song later. All my 3 string cbgs are fretless. So I'd have to make a new one.***
I put together a tutorial on how to play Dire Straits "Money for Nothing" on cigar box guitar. Hope it helps some of my CBG friends out there. This song is a blast! Try it; you might like it. :)

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Comment by Janis Wilson Hughes on February 2, 2017 at 7:59am: Gary, Thank you! Got any time this weekend for building? I really enjoy the additional options that 4th string gives me. I'm sure you'd have fun with with one. :)

Rick - thank you!

Derek, I really appreciate the kind words! Folks who don't like to finger pick could use a pick, but it just sounds better if you finger pick this tune. Like you said, that's how Mark Knopfler does it after all. :)

Comment by Derek Rose on February 1, 2017 at 4:22pm: Great instructional video, Janis. Your playing sounds perfect. And you play it without a pick like he does!

Comment by Rick Alexander on February 1, 2017 at 3:38pm: Awesome! Great song, and very nicely put together video lesson.

Comment by Gary W aka Rev. Bluejeans on February 1, 2017 at 12:14pm: Janis - that is so cool! Now I need to take my son's advice and make a 4-string for myself!

Comment by Janis Wilson Hughes on February 1, 2017 at 10:17am: Thank ya kindly APG! :)

Comment by AGP # on February 1, 2017 at 10:00am: Great Tutorial of a Great Song Janis, thanks for posting!

Comment by Janis Wilson Hughes on February 1, 2017 at 8:59am: Thank you Uncle Johny!:D

Comment by Janis Wilson Hughes on February 1, 2017 at 8:58am: Thanks Norbert! I learned how to play this from a video on a regular guitar, so I'm paying it forward. :) when I busted this out on CBG in front of my friend Eric, he suggested I make a video. The guitar weighs about 6 pounds.

Comment by Janis Wilson Hughes on February 1, 2017 at 8:54am: Yep Shane, I'made the potter. I recently posted a video about how I made the ceramic guitar I'm playing here.