A Cigar Box Guitar Builder's Guide to Stringing and Tuning / Bottleneck Slide Blues / Open Tuning

[MrCaribbean]

GOOD video, very informative, thanks ;-) wonna own a cigar box guitar, sweet!

[KeniLeeBurgess]

@MrCaribbean Thank you for your comment. Glad to hear you found my video helpful. Sorry about the delayed reponse. I just returned from a 15 day trip to China. Happy Hoildays. Enjoy, Keni Lee

[ibdjpickles]

Great Video. No one else puts it so simple and easy to understand. I just built my first CBG and have used your tips almost exclusively in my project. It has turned out to be a sweet guitar, I used the neck from my first ever electric guitar... Gives it a little bit more nostalgia for me. Thanks again KLB.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

@ibdjpickles Thank you for your interest and comments. I am glad you are finding my videos helpful. Please consider supporting my efforts here on youtube by purchasing my instructional video CDs. (On ebay search: keni lee) They are very reasonably priced, and I think you will find them quite comprehensive too. Definitely making a homemade instrument is a fun way to create a family heirloom at the same time. Please write if I can be of any further assitance. Enjoy.

[thestrugglewithin]

LOL awesome word from the sponsors haha!

[KeniLeeBurgess]

@thestrugglewithin Thank you. I am glad to hear you enjoyed my video.

[0channel0zero0]

Very nice videos, I look forward to buying your videos on ebay, too.

Thanks.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

@0channel0zero0 Thank you for your comment, interest, and support. Please feel free to write if you have any questions. Enjoy.

[transphattyacid]

Thank you so much for making these videos! You're amazing!

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you are enjoying my videos.

[lennypurnell]

Thanks Keni !! Thanks for the unwound G string tip too.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

My pleasure. I'm not sure what the thickest plain steel string is that you can get, but I'm thinking it would have to be at least a .020 to get it to tune to g. If you give it a try, tell me how it works out. Enjoy.

[lennypurnell]

Hey Keni

Great video! Very helpful! One question, sometimes you use a capital letter like EADg or Dgb Then a lower case letter. Are the caps a octive lower? Great instructional!! I gotta watch them all.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you. Yes, I usually write the three lower bass strings EAD (654) and the three treble strings gbe (321). Interesting note: many blues players would use a heavy plain steel string for a g string instead of the standard wound g.

[MrSkurzasty]

Hello, i was asking in main canal about slides - did You see that? Somebody deleted my post? :( Where i can ask a questions? Please answer

Best regards

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you for stopping by. What is your question?

[MrSkurzasty]

uold You tell me what is the differences between metal chrome slide and brass slide ? Becouse i dont know which to buy .

And do You know Johnsons guitor bottleneck JW995? What do You think about it?

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you for your question. Please watch these videos:

How to select a Resonator Guitar and Bottleneck Slide for Blues

and

Delta Blues Bottleneck Slide Open D Series 1 Video CD for Sale on Ebay Search: Keni Lee

They will answer your question concerning Bottleneck slides. Enjoy.

[ottomatik]

This is really helpful. Thanks, Keni! I'm off to eBay to buy your instructional course. -- Mark from Boing Boing.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

You are welcome. I am glad you found the video helpful. Thank you for your support. Please feel free to write if you have any questions as you work through the lessons. Enjoy.

[63gmac]

VERY helpful thanks! See you on CBG Nation.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

You are welcome. Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment. See you at the CBNation. Enjoy.

[jimendo45qf]

Great job . Your lessons show that 3,4 or 6 strings all work, if you have been intimidated by a 6 string guitar you can start with 3. then you can take what you learn from there and move on to 6 strings. For those of us that have 6 string guitars the 3 string is just another tone to enjoy. As I see it your lessons provide a road map if you will to the freedom of musical expression. I have your instructional video CD and your musical CD. Both of which I highly recommend. Thanks again - Jim

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you Jim. Yes, certainly understanding the relationship between pairs of strings in an open tuning is relatively easy. Considering there is only three tones, 1,3,5, that means you only need to explore 3 possible combinations of doublestops; 1&3, 1&5, 3&5 and their inversions. Regardless of how many strings you have, you will understand how the fingerboard works. I believe this is a great way to learn music from creating melody lines, to adding harmony into understanding chords. Enjoy.

[FLTlingit]

But first a word from our sponsors!

LOL. That was classic!

Enjoyed your video as always Keni

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you. Enjoy.

[kickingmule]

Thanks a lot Ken, but I prefer to tune my Git. in the tuning I want.

Why build a A Cigar Box Guitar, when I already have the sound I need ?

OK, stupid question, but if I build a git. as large as a Cigar Box it's handy to have in your pocket. Just like a harmonica, I guess.*smile*

I'll see what I can do ?

However, I've never understood, why the Spanish Git is tuned the way it is. Perhaps you Know ?

Take care !

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you for your comment. This video is not intended to limit the design of a CBG, but to give builders ideas how to approach design from a musical perspective. You can string and tune anyway you like. How do you tune? The interesting thing about different open tunings is how the order of the strings influences the arrangement. Walking Blues uses the 5 over 1 in the bass for the classic lick. You Got To Move works out better in Vestapol. Possibilities are endless. Enjoy.

[kickingmule]

Please, Ken, I just wanted to be a little funny, BUT I know what you mean and I appreciate what you are doing !!!

You have "opened" my eays/ears !!!

You are perfectly right about what your are saying.

Why have a lot, you don't need ?

Take Care

Urban

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you for your comment. Yes, I understand what you are saying. What I personally find fasinating about CBG is that it reduces a regular guitar and it's standardized tuning EADgbe and it's various schools of music, classical, jazz, country & western, rock & roll etc. to a simple primative instrument. It is so basic. It is one key. The notes of the major scale right down the fingerboard. You can literally see the doublestops and 3 note chords pop right out. Enjoy.

[631959]

Man Kenny I've grown up around music (Bluegrass) playing Mandolin and I have never understood this stuff until today,Thank you,Thank You ,Thank You!!!

[KeniLeeBurgess]

My pleasure. I'm glad the video helped to clarify your understand. Yes, although I mainly play Blues, this approach is widely used in Folk and Country music too. It is all Roots Music. Back to the Farm! Making a Banjo out of a grain measure and some baling wire. lol. Enjoy.

[thoxbui]

very nice explanation!

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you. I'm glad you found it useful. Enjoy.