How to Play Diddley Bow pt. 1 "The Magic Note"

[@ScottCroom]

The level of brilliance is amazing. All from one string. Dang.

[@justinchambars844]

looking for the g spot on the g string

[@DNAblues]

Shane I love your teaching playing and enthusiasm. I'll be playing originals and covers all night.

[@dragmio]

I love your approach to teaching music.

[@cardboard316]

This is a lesson I've been looking for! Stay musical

[@bartbrush5574]

Great videos, Shane! My mother learned your first chant in the 1930s, growing up in the Florida panhandle. Her version: Once upon a time, the goose drank wine, the monkey chewed tobacco on a sweet potato vine, etc...

[@steelman774]

Great video!! I just built my first one last weekend out of a 3 and a half foot wooden steak that we used as a string marker when we poured a concrete footing. Two screws, an old used acoustic G-string and a large bolt later and I’ve got a crude Diddley-Bow. I’ve been using a small glass medicine bottle but I was thinking of using a small piece of copper pipe, but I really like your idea of a 3/4 socket. I’ve been playing with different ideas of a sound box for it, but it makes such a unique walking stick that I’m tempted to leave it open. I’ve been playing everything from the Stones to Zeppelin to old blues riffs to original compositions but I never ... and I mean Never ... thought to use old children’s rhymes like RamJam did with Black Betty. Simplistic and brilliant all at once!

[@tracymcdougal4729]

I just got a Diddley Bow together, so I need some instructions on how to play. Thanks for your wisdom in the video.😎

[@pihtbull3055]

Man when you tune that string down a few notes it gives me chills .

[@congerscott6064]

I live in the deep south and i know several people that play the one string diddley bow and they are damn good at it and i mean really good, that's the only instrument they play and will not play anything else, they all make their own diddley bow's, to them it's like a badge of honor, they take it serious and they really know music, i love it, great video 👍🏆.

[@ShaneSpeal]

I want to meet these people! You should film them and put the vids on KZbin

[@haroldvondenstein]

Great. You are a champion for inspiring others to make music. Keep up the good work.

[@beasley658]

Built one the other day love it

[@merlinporterarts]

Looking for inspo on making one string guitars for kids art club...Wow hit gold here...two notes open and a magic note...Thank you!!!

[@brandon9271]

I want to hear "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" on that thing :)

[@noicegraffti2888]

brando92711 ha that fucking cool

[@njgl2010]

I'm sure Justin Johnson can do it....if he hasnt already

[@alex-E7WHU]

On a g string..?? 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

I,m in St.Louis , got a friend named Lance or Lawrence that makes these , lost track of him in 2010 be nice to find him again and buy a few off of him for practice , thanks for uploading :) QC

[@stephenwillis444]

Thanks much for your tutorials .. That particular Diddley bow intrigues me a lot and if you could what type of cigar box is that and what are the dimensions for the neck??

[@JamesNoble97]

Hrom Blesk He's playing a Bb which is the minor 3rd of G. Also, C would be the perfect (not major) fourth. No hostility, just letting you know.

[@aaronrose7779]

thanks shane - for open g tuning, that's an A# (3rd fret) i think

[@xxenlnexx]

Excellent! Is the magic note the 3rd fret, or 5th fret? Love it...

[@marin4311]

Third

[@bareakon]

It's also a minor third in music theory terms.

[@MrMdevaney]

shane , thank you man great vid

[@scott-jc5nd]

thank you! well done! great teacher

[@scott-jc5nd]

made an electric shovel diddley bow

[@alanimoikan]

You are the man bro awesome

[@sydmarty1]

So if you are tuned to G Is the "magic note" a C or a D?

[@mcstabba]

That would be C.

[@ambiguationdotnet]

Bb - it's the minor third

[@SleepDeprived67]

Great video!!!!!

[@pulpero666]

3rd fret. 3rd menor note :)

[@tommyholloman2601]

Great lesson Shane love those old. Black Betty one of my favorites, But you might want to check the closed caption on that song lol not to accurate but kinda funny too 😜

[@forrestcrawley1566]

Tommy Holloman hahaha. Turned on the captions because of this comment. Hilarious.

[@deathslice60]

Where is the magic note? My OCD starts up if I don't know the specific area of the neck

[@mellowgeekstudio]

Third fret (minor third).

[@WILLARDJ]

MR.SPEAL,MR.SPEAL,,,,,Sir thanks for posting

[@robbertbricker4387]

feckin awesome bro!

[@elizabethbrown8833]

☺️ 'Way to go Diddley Bow !! 🎶🎶 💙

[@peterforrest3424]

What string do you use

[@christopherch7307]

❤it y'all

[@peterhooper3391]

...AND for those with a tuner on hand, here are the notes I'm playing after tuning to G... Oh, wait.

[@TheNickolais]

I reckon he's talking about the equivalent to the 5th fret on the guitar, which would be a c, a major fourth from the G.

[@keykrazy]

+Hrom Blesk I believe he's talking about the minor 3rd, i.e. the note "G" on a 6-string guitar in standard tuning.

[@MauricioKarren]

WOW

[@mr-nr4td]

1) diddley bow materializes in video / slight gris-gris...hoodoo presense eminates from screen...mojo... 2) rhythmic one note drone begins / spirit of the delta...bambara...papa l'ebat....labas...diddley mojo begins to work the room 3) slide begins riff note / mojo thick...the blues...on sa tier... the gris-gris drive away the v'eriquit'e....mojo in room full....petwo iwa they dance...hoodoo goin on 4) man begins to sing /...all disappears... instantly, room is cleared... like a tiny moth flying by a 6HP Bosch Dust Extractor Shop-Vac (sorry, I can't sing any better. had to laugh when the, any vibe at all, hit a brick wall)

[@alex-E7WHU]

Captions on.. 4:15....🤣

[@steelman774]

I was really enjoying the video until you pointed this out. ...... now I Love it!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@wolfyk95]

I couldnt help but slide

[@RippSnortin]

Good info for people who have a clue about music. But for me its not a magic note,its a secret note,because I have no idea what you are talking about.

[@jadenharrison]

Brushy one string got nothing on you bro

[@jeffersongallagher1990]

C'est quoi ton histoire de 'note magic"? Déjà tu utilise une seul corde et tu te serre de 2 notes seulement.. Autant utilisé une corde a linge ^^' T'es pas un bon musicien a mon avis ^^'