Chords for 3-string CBG 101

_ _ Okay, so you got yourself a three string cigar box guitar now what my name is not Lenny
and if you give me about five minutes, I'm going to teach you a never fail technique for tuning [F] and
Absolutely everything you need to know to be able to play no less than eight gazillion songs.
I promise
Okay, this is my favorite configuration for cigar box guitar.
It's a three string fretless the
Marks you see here are not frets.
They're just fret indicators made with a pen and
When I first got one of these [Fm] and started playing one of these several years back
I [N] started looking around the internet to find out what the best way to tune it was because I really didn't know I kept
coming up with
DAD as this
recommended [Bb] tuning
_ _ DAD tuning [F] okay, well I quickly found out the dad wasn't in tune either
So I was completely on my own right back where I started from
So the next step is probably the most important one [N] what you've got to do is you got to get in your car
And you got to drive down to Guitar Center or some other
_ National chain of music retailers, and you're going to have to get off your wallet, and you're going to have to buy one of these
this is a digital tuner and
Make sure you spend a lot of money and get a really good one you're going to have to spend between
$80.90 something like that maybe more get it home make sure it's got triple-a batteries in it
Get your cigar box guitar out take a look at this thing and throw it in the garbage because you really don't need it
This is a cigar box guitar.
Don't overthink it.
That's the most important thing
_ DAD tuning in my mind really refers more to the interval [N] between the strings than the actual notes themselves
So unless you're trying to play along with a particular
Harmonica key or somebody else that's playing a piano or something like this the actual notes
Really don't matter that much tune it to something that is [Bb] comfortable for you
This is in what I consider DAD tuning, but it's probably more like [F] B flat F B flat
So just find a range that's [Fm] comfortable for you and tune it to
Say you see tuning.
That's what I like [Bb] to remember and what I mean by that is oh
_ _ [F] say can you see
_ If you can just remember that you can always get it in tune now when you're playing with a slide
I'm going to teach you a real couple of simple things to do
First of all you don't want to really push down [N] on the slide and try and fret the strings
I'm just kind of gliding the slide so it makes full contact with the strings
[F] Like that and if you can just play an open
open three strings and then slide up to the position where [A] the fifth fret would [Ebm] be and
[F] Then slide up to the position where the seventh fret would be
_ _ [F] so just those three positions open with all [Bb] three strings and
_ And [F] fifth fret or what would be the fifth fret
[Ebm] _ Just bar it all the way across and the seventh fret
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] Add one little thing [Fm] takes one finger and one note.
Just alternate [Bb] between open strings and
pressing your
_ Pointer finger on the second string or middle string right around the second fret _ _ _ _
_ _ Get in the groove with it _
Or and it's you can play a
At [Ab] least a gazillion blues tunes with that okay simply take the tempo up and you got some early rock and roll [Bb] vibe going
_ _ _ _ _ _ Hi, Avery
_ What can't you be true? _
[Ebm] Maybe I _ [Bb] can't you
You [Fm] don't start back [Eb] to the things you [Bb] used to do _ _
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_ Okay there you go
three positions three strings
one riff that includes two notes
Play on one finger a very simple tuning method that'll always be in your head now, and