Cigar Box Guitar Slide Blues Lesson Mike Snowden

[@Baktoo]

Dear Mike, Just caught the video, and wanted to thank you for sharing. I appreciate the kiss approach especially for someone with no music background, I cannot wait to try. Thanks again

[@muloc100]

Thanks Mike, Built myself a 3 string fretless but no idea how to play. With a heap of practice, this vid will go a long ways to appease the other half as to why I spent time building a CBG when I can't play one! Thanks a mill.... "Increase the Peace"

[@TheWickedmoon]

don't stop brother.. your good at this!

[@jassmandidgeridoo]

i love your stuff you make it easy to see and hear dont quit teaching these are the best lessons out there and i have seen and bouhgt a lot of them cbg4life

[@trampguitars]

Its Worth watching this video just to see the excitement on your face when you first pick up that cbg. Thanks for sharing. Peace brother

[@DNAblues]

Mike thanks so much for teaching an ez way to make nice sounding blues and have a lot of fun doing it. I recently bought a 4 string cigar box guitar to play slude and blues. Your tutorial is the best that I've ever seen for both enthusiasm and ease of learning. Thanks so much man. I'll be writing and playing my own stuff today. CBGs are the coolest guitars. Your smile and enthusiasm are contagious man. Thx again.

[@Sidewalkgrind]

i love how baked and happy u look doin all of these..lol

[@goshinjk]

Hey Mike, I'm primarily a harp player, but want to build and learn some CBG basics to fill out my repatoire' this year. Thanks for this easy to follow, simple instruction.

[@Nixnicoll]

Came across this purly by chance - every happy - love the video !!! Thanks again Mike - I'm going to have to get one of these cigar box guitars !!!

[@mondocain]

Great lesson! Muddy is king! Great lesson on this classic blues tune!

[@bogdanbp84]

Hey, man! Greetings from Romania! Just wanted to say that you've inspired me to modify a bit my banjo-guitar to a 3 stringer and start picking away. It's not the same sound, of course, but it's working for me. Thanks for the tutorials as well. Cheers!

[@Mojocbg]

Nice videos Mike, you make the cbg sound awsome.

[@chopperking1122]

im sitting here in frankston , victoria , australia , with my home made c.b.g , how do i play this , i cant even play a guitar ? these guys are picking away , yabbling about chords and things , and then i found this ! WOW! i can play this easy ,l and it sounds so friggin cool , im gonna sit here doin this all night !

[@MultiPowerage]

You are AWEZOME dude!!!!

[@raceman888]

Ok Mike, it's New years eve, and u made my facebook homepage to show everyone the homemade quitar and tallent. Until I can make one of these hope I can apply what I learned here to my six string. I am teaching myself. thanks for the video.

[@judebyrne3857]

Mike thanks for the lesson, just purchased a cbg,3 string, got the missis drove crazy, but i do love the sound. your tutorial is great, easy to pick up .keep it up man.

[@Bluessoulful]

Nice lesson Mike! I just tried it and I am on fire now with my new CGB :-)

[@krazywally5685]

Brilliant, happy music 👍😎

[@MobyDave1583]

LOL U make it look so easy man! I can't wait til I get mine!

[@hovlandbound]

This is just what I need, thanks for posting! But at this point in time, I just got done finishing my cigar box guitar but they sent one wrong tuner so I'm practicing with only 2 strings!! I know there is a 1 string and a 3 and 4 string but not sure about 2! It should be coming this week though. :) In the mean time I'm doing my best with the two G strings. Funny. And really! Ossi Osborne?!?! That had to be fun. :)

[@mickhope4401]

thanks mike , for your time, i have improved heaps from you already, mick sth australia you stay safe

[@DDEENY]

Hey Mike, that's sounds awesome! Who needs 6 strings? Less is more. And your amplified tone sounds superb, too. No wonder that Keith Richard discarded his 6th string for his open-G tuning. There's a place in New Jersey that offers classes for making both cigar box guitars and small, working amps and I'd be interested in both. What great sound from a simple, no-nonsense instrument. I'm definitely impressed! Thanks and God Bless!

[@bigdennyh]

Awesome ! I'm saving up for one of your guitars and I can't wait!

[@SnowdenGuitars]

I use GHS Phosphor Bronze Acoustic Guitar Strings Light. Use the A D and G string tuned to open G (GDG)

[@Ghostmeat17]

awh man. looks like your havin so much fun. great to see this. thanks for the video dude! Ben

[@sandraragole2411]

💣🎸🌬🌬🌬🎵🎶🎶🌬 3/2021

[@jimmy59ca2001]

hey Mike , you made it real simple for me I am trying to learn, you are a great teacher, where do you live, let me come down for lessons

[@lukealvarez6161]

Nice work. Sounds good.

[@terryvallette3022]

say mike love the idea you laugh all the time about building cigar box guitars. reminds me of me ha ha. still laughing about my first cigar box ha ha . what a kick in the shorts ha ha ha! love this stuff! cant get enough! so here I go, I'm in! ill build 12 of them and see if I'm still laughing ha ha ha. tell you this thou....really looking forward to this adventure. What a blast!

[@voxsteven]

Really good, Mike, thank you!

[@leonmaster5182]

Sooouu Wicked dude! Can't wait to get mine. and jam! thx so much sweet sound.

[@robdale50]

Mike , Thanks for the video lesson! I,m going to introduce it to my 10 year old! May start him playing!

[@WILLARDJ]

super...thanks for postin

[@charlesbill3594]

Love it Mike..

[@didraoul5898]

Hello Mike, very good tutorial , easy and simple to learn , do you use a effects pedal for your sounds , and your amp what kind of . thank you very mouch , best regard Didier

[@LoganCartwright]

You make it so pro sounding and yet so seemingly doable even for a non musician as myself. Thank you Mike After a lot of local shops and web based research, by coincidence just bought my first basic parts today for a CBG, and then found your video. Big score today is two perfect sized, finger jointed all wood CBs. If you don't mind, what kind if pick up does the CBG have your playing in this video? Thanks again, logan,

[@nextellcup8]

i used light electric , 3,4,5 .ive tried it with acoustic but didnt like the sound. but thats just preference :) there a lot of fun to play with

[@Zsolto66]

You really make this look easy :) Loved this, thanks for sharing. Zs

[@rythymroach]

Mike, loved it bro! want to get me one, or fashion a guitar with top tuning old fashin slack tuning, d g c, then do the bottom like your 3 string and have at it some with slide on a 6 string, until I can find a well made cigar box lol!! Cheers dude, it was awesome!

[@biloxirebel]

Great video, thanks so much!

[@JoseGarcia-yk3dl]

Hello !, I do not play the guitar, I play the violin. But I love these cigarbox guitar. My idea is to play blues and rock. What is the best option, three or four strings? Thank you very much!

[@johnaustin1825]

Hi Mike, Great stuff. I notice your fretboard only has 17 frets instead of 22?! Is it designed as a shortened guitar - similar to a Baritone uke? I've been building cigar box ukes and want to go onto guitars - Thanks - Lost John

[@MR5er1]

I'm practicing on a classical guitar with three strings, lol. But I'll soon build myself a cigar box guitar :)

[@GarnettM]

I got thinking of making a Diddley Bo -Just happen to see Jack and Ozzy P.O.D. ,shadowing your basement on their show what a lifetime memory that would be - even sold him one very cool , I worked in the Dj /Nightclub service and happen to have Robert Plant at my shooter bar some other big names too but ya once in a lifetime ,Thinking of using a neck from a 5 string I have , or do you think that size of neck is goofy --I play clawhammer like the 5th but what about the truss rod in a cigar box ?

[@MobyDave1583]

When my brother sends me my 3 string I am gonna learn that tune and then sometime meet you some where on busker road.

[@bongobrawnycampervan]

What's the strum pattern on the riff? Great video Mike.

[@profmul]

Hi Mike, great play. I want to build my first cbg. What is the length from the bridge to the nut?

[@brianduchowicz8993]

what number strings are u using in this one,,3rd 4th 5th??the guitari have is in open d,,so i dont know how to tune this thing the guy never told me anything,,can you help me,,i want that sound your playin,,im tryin ,but,the 2nd,3rd fret middle finger changes sound off alot on my guitar

[@MrFranciscoFidalgo]

Well in fact, what I did was just muting the unwanted strings from DGDGBD so only the 3rd, 4th and 5th were able to resonate. =)

[@2dudesonabike]

Hi mike this is the first lesson i took a bit hard at first because i did not have a cbg then a 4 string tin guitar i finished a cbg yesterday 5th of may 2014 but anyway i learn't the riff OK cheers Morgan.

[@DarkShroom]

if you have a 6 string the tendency would be to tune the 4th string to a Min or Maj 3rd, this guy's guitar is tuned gdg, which makes things a bit easier. If you tune the the 4th string to the octave or to a fifth from the root, you can get a more country tang i don't like it myself though i like to have the 3rd available so I can sound more heart broken

[@Double65s]

Very cool...Thanks!

[@groundunder12]

OZZY CAME TO VISIT YOU MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@curtisthibodeaux7533]

nice video great lesson,... I use the 3rd 2nd and 2nd i get the most alsome sound , you might not think possable, there light electric with a humbacker pickup with a 24/.5 inc scale berch 3/16 ply wood 4.5x 9 incx1 3/4 red oak neck from southeast tx tree., small box not much room for pickup every one thats played it are begging me to build one for them its my 9th guitar

[@redheadboyyy123]

Im trying to find the pick motion and each string being hit. Is it all strings being strung but they're open other than the frets being hit. And does the pick motion even matter. Im a hands on learner so it's a little hard for me to learn through the video. Its a great vid and i got the jist of it, but no one around me can play the cbg and i wana be the forst of my buddies. The electric guitar i play feels completely different to this though it's the same principal. What do you recommend for self teaching. Like is there a certain book, or should i just say screw it and make it up as i go? Thanks

[@biloxirebel]

Great vids, many thanks for posting. What amp do you use or recommend?

[@adrianpelham6024]

once agin brill stuff m8. I just bought a handmade import from usa with a Habanos cigar box. I play guitar but 3 strings thought I ? doh. but when I heard u I was sold on the sound. But mine is a strict slide guitar with what apears to be a softwood neck that is bowed, still sounds amazingly fine ... should it be so , any comments ? tu neway Adrian

[@johnmackay3458]

would be nice if you told us what amp your using.

[@darrenweitering4210]

Hi Mike, sounds awesome. Can you make your strumming pattern a bit clearer. PS Just starting out. Thanks Heaps.

[@chopperking1122]

ive made myself a CBG , its got no frets , I slide on it , but it has the fret marks there . I laid an acoustic guitar next to it and transfered the marks across . I have twenty fret marks , the electric I have here has twenty-two marks , but the one you have there only has sixteen ?

[@susilermer8147]

thank you...I am waiting for my "stompin´hogg" 3 String...

[@mscopley]

What kind of pedal are you using?

[@SnowdenGuitars]

Thanks Didier! No effects pedal on this video just using a Line 6 Micro Spyder amp. Mike

[@onebrotherjohn]

Can you play some of the Allman Brothers Band, and show me?

[@brianduchowicz8993]

how do u tune this thing??what are u tuned in,,and do u tune it in guitar tuning or chromatic tuning

[@jakechambers1739]

brian duchowicz open G is G D G guitar Turner will work just fine

[@shmallzshmwall]

Hey I'm trying the second and third fret riff and when I hit 3rd it sounds like garbage. I made my own cbg and I always seems to do something wrong in the making and they never sound as good as everyone else's. What am I doing wrong?

[@jakechambers1739]

samuel mitgang get yourself a snark tuner and make sure u are hitting the right note should be a F on the third fret middle string. if not an F that's why it sounds funky. how do your other notes sound on the D string?

[@tunnel7]

thanx real good

[@JPRibner]

Is the box an Ashton VMG Torpedo? Just wondering ...

[@leenew2510]

Can you play any reverend paignton and the big Damn band ?

[@leenew2510]

What amp you using there bud

[@MrFranciscoFidalgo]

Adapting this to Open G on 6 string guitar, it doesn't sound as awesome. Gotta get a Cigar Box haha :) nice riff. Peace.

[@alexmarcianesi1107]

will this work on a fretless cigar box guitar??

[@jmoffitt36]

Sure, you have to finger were the fretwire would be on a normal guitar. If your action is really high like my fretless some of the notes sound dull. You can cheat with your slide or wear rings on you empty fingers. For the most part I just use the Slide on the fretless. I have a nice Fretted 3 String built by John DeSmet. handmademusicclubhouse.com/profile/JohnDeSmet. I highly recommend his guitars and his prices are beyond fair. (Not Spam, Just passing the word ! ! !).

[@cesarmancini8339]

Thanks

[@lemoinexavier]

Thx!

[@jrbass62]

Where is the pickup??

[@alexbamvye6825]

What if i put guitar strings on a lp uke

[@joseanderson1526]

hello, can you help me with the chords of the cigar box guitar ?

[@jakechambers1739]

jose anderson if tuned in open G GDG. then open (no fingers) a g. it goes Open G . G# (1St fret) A(2ND) and so on G,g#,a,a#,b,c,c#,d,d#,e,f,f# and your twelve fret is an octave higher G . those R the easy chords

[@Kyletaylors3]

WOW......!!!!!!

[@monkeyshark100]

Haha know what I'm doing? Well that'll be a first 😬 Thanks. Will give it a try

[@curtbrooks7495]

Just finished my first guitar great lesson I wanna smoke a big fatty with y'all

[@BrodiBarringer]

im gonna take a few strings off my Yamaha electric, plug it in and see what happens, haha

[@sandraragole2411]

💣🧨🎸🌬🌬🌬🎶🎵🎶🎶 ty. 3/2021

[@jimcoolman0]

pickles!