3 string Cigar Box Blues Lessons & CBG Resonator vintage guitar Dobro styles

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3 string Cigar Box Blues Lessons & CBG Resonator vintage guitar Dobro styles

Blues Lessons on 3 string guitar 

            Anyone can master 3 string guitar....yes, I said it, I said the "M" word!
 
Even if you have tried learning to play guitar in the past, You CAN master the 3 string guitar in playing BOTH styles of Delta Blues with and without a slide. It is not difficult, It just takes correct explanation of the techniques, patience and practice. Three string guitar is something you can learn, and at any age, even if you are in your 50's, 60's, or 70's and have tried to learn to play guitar before.
This DVD explains American music the way it was played from the 1880's to the 1930's. It teaches you how to "capture" that old time Blues era and sound in your playing.
Watch this short clip to see the easily understood playing techniques to becoming a great 3 string guitar player.     If this video does not load, enter this link in your browser (  https://youtu.be/TXsTNM6A0eM )
   Most primitive Delta Blues and early American Folk music was created by people who could not read or write music, Nor did they know any music theory or even what an A chord was.
The truth is you DO NOT need to learn what an 'A chord' or what any chords are to play great sounding cigar box guitar.
If the people who created old time Folk and Blues music did not know chords, than neither do you.
This DVD shows you how to get that raw Delta Blues sound without headaches or over-thinking it...all without having to know any, math, chords, theory, or unnecessary garble. All of which what was never meant to be so difficult.
 
 Region "0" NSTC & PAL-DVD Plays in all Television DVD players in the USA, Europe, United Kingdom, Australia, and Asia   This DVD covers all the sounds from Vintage finger plucking and Delta Bottleneck slide and even Raw Electric Blues.
 Also covered and often overlooked is one of the absolute most important aspects, HOW TO CORRECTLY TUNE a 3 string guitar BY EAR.
 I will show you how to tune without ever using a tuner, or even knowing the names of the notes. I will explain how to tune the guitar with itself to play any style.
We will also cover how to  correctly set up your guitar so you get those early 1920's vintage sounds.
 We will also cover something very important to the overall sound, and that is the different pickups available for electric guitars and most importantly of all, we will cover how the amp itself gives you part of that "Old Timey" sound.
 
 I also will cover and explain  the strings and various sizes with explanation about their tone and tension, Different slides with in depth explanation about their contrast in your playing and more.
 
   You will enjoy learning and watching this DVD comfortably on TV. This is a real DVD, you will not need to sit in front of a computer or hunched over a laptop. You will be able to learn more relaxed while watching it on Television. Sitting and learning in a comfortable position is important.This DVD plays in all DVD and Blu-ray players worldwide, both NTSC and PAL encoded TV's will play this DVD on your Television.
 
 Alright, your still here?Watch this video below and watch the slide, you will see it is VERY simple.
...Slide guitar is basically ONE FINGER GUITAR!
I am not going to teach you anything you cannot do, so DON'T think you can't learn this or play this type of music, you can, It's easier than you realize.On this DVD we are going to go over and study the simple things you need to do in order to master this Old Time Delta Blues sound. You can do this. Three string guitar the easiest form of guitar that there is to learn.
 
 Watch this video and you will see, there is NOTHING complex going on, this is something you to can do after you have been taught the correct building blocks.
Watch this video and meet me below when your done.

If this video does not load, enter this link in your browser ( https://youtu.be/Qcn3WbidU8I )

Now, in order to be fair, the DVD starts off with fingering the notes, you might or might not want to play the fingered notes and you might prefer to play slide guitar..... but studying where to PUT your fingers is mandatory for us to cover. This is how you will learn slide very fast. There is NOT any complicated chords or structure. There is only three strings, so if you have had a bad experience learning regular guitar in the past, this will not be the same, this is NOT difficult, 3 string guitar is something you can learn, and at any age, even if you are 70. You can do this.
 
 Once we combine together your knowledge of the fret board and the finger positions and the slide styles, you will see how really simple it is. You can then combine it with the slide, you will then understand the 3 string guitar.
 It really is that simple once the steps are broken down and properly explained. Once again there isn't much to learn this guitar, It is just a three string guitar. Old Blues and Folk music is simple by nature, that is part of the definition of "Folk Music" itself, it's simplicity.
That's what this DVD is about, That is in fact the name of this DVD. It's called "Understanding 3 string guitar."
American Folk music is super easy. That's what defines "Americana," the more you try to learn and the harder you try, the less it sounds like Delta Blues and the more it sounds like contemporary and European music.

 
Watch this video, we are going to teach you how to play fingering on a 3 string guitar, you can then apply it to "your style" and taste in music.

 

Put that style  together with the slide, and a whole world opens up! You will have fun when you  play guitar.
Watch this  modern "Electric Slide guitar" ...it's down right Elec-tric! 
   You can use those styles to recreate that true vintage sound, listen to these short clips from one of my albums in this video below,


I will show you ALL of those techniques to play those EXACT styles AND MORE, not just those songs...but different styles that make up American music, you can freestyle and improvise forever on and make up a 1000 songs.
What's better? Learn and copy one song? Or learn how to make your own songs? You WILL be able to build your own music,  not just play other peoples songs. Yes, learning songs from other people is fun, but that is no crowning achievement. Open up your own world of music, it is truly is fun and rewarding at heart.
Here is something to think about, if some guy did it in a barn a 100 years ago, you can do it too. Try this,
Clear your mind....
 
Think of a peaceful time well over a 100 years ago. Think about an old barn or Farm house at the edge of a southern plantation. Imagine an old farmer or field hand who works the crops or in the field, just a person from the past who could not read or write holding his homemade guitar he made with old wood and simple tools.  He's just sitting on the porch or relaxing in front of that barn, He's just strummin' away a breezy afternoon..... He's having fun and just entertaining himself with music he likes and making sounds that he enjoys.

Now,.....do you think he knew what a D chord was transposed over the major scale???? Do you even think he knew what in the heck a major scale was????
NO way!!!!
OK, so why would you need to know complex chords, scales and keys?
 
I have seen many how to play Lessons such as "Mel Bay" Resonator Guitar and Blues videos that were completely false and some were so incorrect that it would be impossible to get a truly vintage American sound by studying them.
I am going to be Frank, if someone tries explaining Blues music in this way, "it's a G,...open E.... or D tuning ....or this flat and that sharp," you are heading IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.....THAT is NOT Blues music.
If many of the great Bluesmen of last century didn't know a G chord from a Flying Saucer or space-ship part... then why on earth do you need to know how to make a 'G chord' on a homemade guitar?
 
The truth is you don't.
That is what is so easy about the 3 string guitar, with proper instruction in learning how to play one, you will understand how to make the guitar make the "sounds" you want it to, you will make your own music. It really is that simple, you do not need to learn math or music theory. 3 string guitar is fun and simple. 
Well, thanks for your time, If you want this DVD, it's always available here. I can mail This DVD anywhere in the world.

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Region "0" NSTC & PAL - DVD Plays in all Television DVD players in the USA, Europe, United Kingdom, Australia, and Asia    
  *       *       *       *   The fine print.   No Guitar is included in this auction, this is a "HOW TO PLAY DVD"  for sale in this auction!    This is a wealth of information to study. YOU WILL LEARN. However, due to the time invested   THERE IS NO REFUND
It is also made and recorded on a simple camcorder BUT, it is a TRUE DVD   This DVD is made with DVD Architect 4.5 by Sony, It was several 100 hours worth of work in recording and editing, watch it on TV, No need to huddle near a computer. It plays on any TELEVISION worldwide.   I build and sell guitars (Red Dog Guitars) I hardly have grand ideas of selling How to DVD's to retire on. If you have time, come check my guitars out, they are my real passion, I love to build them and see other people play them and to see the joy they create in peoples lives, just Goggle "Red Dog Guitars" to see my stuff.
I would also like to share a massage about my craft and the wrapping and packaging I use. When working both in my shop and in my home, I try to recycle everything I can. It's NOT a political statement, nor a new "hip" trend I follow. I just personally hate throwing away large amounts of plastic and cardboard garbage. The guitars I build are made from old cigar boxes and salvaged or reclaimed wood. It's not just what I do, but who I am as a person.  So when wrapping or mailing item. I would be embarrassed to send you useless plastic or wasteful wrapping material that is just raw garbage. It will have no use and will only end up in a landfill.
This disc has NO Plastic cellophane, No Plastic shrink wrap and No Plastic covers.  
    Still here? .....Would you like to learn more about the history of the cigar box guitar?      

  Well, what is a Cigar Box Guitar? The truth is, in the South it's common to hear stories that B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins and all those other old-time blues guys started playing guitar on a cigar box guitar. Not many people who follow Blues and Country music know this, but many famous Bluesmen and Country singers started their career on a simple homemade cigar box guitar. One reason most Blues and Country music has such a distinctive sound is because it was derived off of music made on these simple instruments.       The precursor to the cigar box guitar as an instrument was the diddly-bow. It was a one stringed instrument where the player would take a Coke bottle or Rum bottle neck and run it up and down a string while plucking the opposite end of the string to achieve the tone they where after. These basic "guitars" didn't have frets and this crude form of guitar playing is what melded into the form of slide guitar were familiar with today. That is what is thought to be the creation of slide guitar in the "Southern Delta."
 From Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters to Elmore James, they were all influenced in some way by these early homemade instruments following along in their career as slide guitar players. That's where the blues and slide guitar truly started at. On those plantations and cotton fields, homemade guitars and 'field hollerin' went hand in hand. Blues players didn't play Cibsons or Martins, they couldn't afford them!
During the 1930's, B.B. King growing up a poor cotton sharecropper's son dreamed of buying his first guitar from the Sears catalog. His father wanted to buy him a guitar, but after going to the local 5 and Dime his father knew he didn't even have enough money for food, much less $2 for a used Stella guitar. Like so many of that era, his only option was to "hit" the shed and see what kind of parts he could come up with to build his son a guitar..... it's well documented he made his son "Blues Boy King" his first guitar from a simple cigar box.
 From Blind Willie Johnson to Ligthnin' Hopkin's, the list is long. Many of the biggest names in Blues and Rock played homemade guitars. It's been quoted that a schoolmate of the Legendary Blues guitarist Charlie Christian, said:  "[Charlie] would amaze us at school with his first guitar - one that he made with a cigar box. He would be playing his own riffs...but they were based on sophisticated chords and progressions that Blind Lemon Jefferson played."  -Ralph Ellison, schoolmate of Charlie Christian. 
It's well known Lightnin' Hopkins got his start on the cigar box guitar. If you would like to hear Lightnin' himself talk about his homemade guitar, watch this short video...what's better than the man himself telling you, its'o fact'o! What am I speaking Italian here? Watch this video,
       Many of the people who built these curious guitars went on to become America's best know Blues and Rock stars of the day. Rock 'n Roll pioneer Carl Perkins reminisced about his childhood cigar box guitar that he made with a cigar box, stick and baling wire. Years later, he would take the knowledge he first learned on that down-home axe to create the song "Blue Suede Shoes." That sure got Elvis to stand up strait, after that HE WAS HOOKED on the BLUES!!!
This form of guitar playing follows in the footsteps of those early Blues and Rock pioneers. Today's modern and Chinese made guitars can't even come close to the true primitive Southern Delta sound these handmade guitars make. Cigar Box Guitars can be channeled into a creativity that many musicians desire for a more authentic sound. Blues guitarist, in particular, really enjoy playing cigar box guitars in the search of playing "Delta Blues" in its purest form. Today you can still find guitar players who are looking for that raw and authentic sound and they chose to play cigar box guitars.
Here is a wonderful song played by Billy Gibbon's from ZZ-top, You will enjoy this song, have a listen,




This sound recording of Ry Cooder's song "Billy The Kid" is performed by Billy Gibbons of ZZ-Top and is an excerpt
from a Mark Maron interview. I have presented it here for educational and commentary purposes only in relation to
the brief discussion about of the history of the cigar box guitar as a long forgotten instrument in American history.
All Copyrights for this material are the property of their respective owners.


This story about what would make a poor person use a cigar box for a guitar in the first place began in the mid 1800's. The Cigar boxes that we are familiar with today didn't exist prior to the 1840's. Prior to then, cigars were shipped in larger crates containing 100 or more per case. But after 1842, due to exploration of the "West," cigar manufacturers started using smaller, more portable boxes with only 20-50 cigars per box. In the Old West and through out the 1800's cigars were extremely popular. Card games, Saloons and of corse those great Mississippi Paddleboats helped spread tobacco throughout early America. Because of the widespread popularity of smoking in those days, many empty boxes would be just laying around. Unlike times are today, the 1800's were a simpler time for Americans, when necessity was truly the mother of invention. Being that most American music was based off of stringed instruments, using a cigar box to create a guitar, fiddle, or a banjo was an obvious choice for a few crafty souls. The earliest proof of a instrument made from a cigar box that has been found is an etching of a Civil War solider at the "Siege of Charleston." Even during the Great War there was a passion for music in America and it was overflowing.        1880's Homemade Cigar Box instrument      
After The Civil War in the 1870's, America in ruins. Little money was had to buy instruments. One thing for sure about American resilience is ingenuity was abound. After the War both Union and Confederate Soldiers along with now freed Slaves carried the knowledge and appreciation of this creative and homemade guitar back with them to almost every corner of America. People used left over wood, cigar boxes, biscuit tin cans, string, broom handles, baling and screen wire and whatever else was lying around the house, shed or barn to create these crude homemade instruments. Making a "home-made" guitar was the only choice for the impoverished. This tradition continued for decades among the poor for most of the late 1800's up till and thru the 1950's. Flash ahead to the birth of Rock & Roll and the 1950's and you'll find Bo Diddley made and played his own guitars...I think you know what that was all about!
 Those humble beginnings are what eventually gave the Cigar box Guitar a home in music history. Now even the Smithsonian Museum In Washington D.C. has an early homemade Cigar Box Guitar on display [c.1861] to show Americans true pride and the roots of all our guitar-playin' Soul--- Now that's the Cigar Box Blues!

 

...and I am sorry but I have to repeat this because somewhere out there someone will assume I am sending a guitar.

I think it is because the music that I record and the guitars I build are so exciting and fun to watch, others want to participate and enjoy it themselves.  It has happened before, people bid, then email saying "I can't wait to get my guitar!!!"

  So...once again, No Guitar is included in this auction, this is a DVD for sale in this auction.

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