Did you know there is a fast-growing collection of FREE tablature for 3-string cigar box guitars over at CBN's sister site www.CigarBoxGuitar.com? It's true!
For those of you who aren't sure what tablature is, it is a way of writing out songs that shows you exactly where to put your fingers on the instrument to make the notes. There's even a video lesson by Glenn Watt to show you how to read the tablature and play it on a 3-string CBG.
There's a real need for slide tabs. It takes a little practice to get the finesse to play lead with just a slide, but it can be done. When Glenn first started publishing fretted tabs, he and I had some communication over on another discussion area. Here are a couple of my responses (excerpted):
Riffs & Solos For Cigar Box Guitar: Essential Lessons For 3 String Slide Cigar Box Guitar
...I can make everything work on an unfretted, slide 3-string except for the 2-0-2 pattern 4 measures before the end. For that I need to put the slide on the 7th fret position and strum just the middle and bass strings--leaving the treble string silent. (I guess the tab would be x-7-7.)
...After pondering some, I realized that I CAN play your 2-0-2 tab with the slide if I don't actually play the bass string. That way I can play both your tabs so far and the 2-0-2 just becomes X-0-2 because I put the slide against the top string, second fret; play the middle string open; and don't play the bass string.
Meanwhile, in December, I got a copy of Justin Johnson's tutorial DVD for slide guitar. He doesn't use tabs, but offers some excellent rote-learning lessons on a 4 string. For 3 strings, when he tunes D-F-a-d, leave out the F; when he tunes A-C#-E-a, leave off the low A; when he tunes A-E-a-c#, also leave off the low A.
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1) Go to Ben's message at the top of this thread and click on a category: Americana, Spirituals, or whatever you want.
3) After choosing a title, click on the Read More button for that entry. Then (and only then) will a small version of the tablature appear--which you can click to download a full-sized PDF.
In short, the handy-dandy shortening of the descriptions causes the tabs to be hidden unless you click on the Read More button for a particular title. Possibly a bad design feature, but it makes the pages load faster because you don't pull down all of those images that you are not interested in.
Open D
I've started to make/translate some songs from either 6 string or 3 string into 4 string. Can I submit them? Is there anyway to get more 4 string tabs?
Are they blues songs? I would like to see them if you put them up anywhere. You probably can just post them on this thread.
There's more, the break down which starts on first fret 1*1*X then 2*2*X 3*3*X then continue on the fret marks to the bottom
Learn 3 String Guitar Lessons For Cigar Box Guitar Homemade
I'll post a video soon of this, I'm just learning to play, but I play this half way decent and it makes it a little easier to play when you see and hear the cadence and mutes pauses etc.
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Because it is such a comprehensive system it can be complicated and takes a little while to learn. For this reason tablature was developed specifically for guitar players. Guitar tab has 6 lines, one for each string, numbers on these lines indicate which fret to play and therefore the pitch of the note.
CBG tab uses the same principles. This makes standard guitar tab more easily translatable and it allows us to notate all 12 notes in the octave.
Three String Chord Chart
The 3's tell you to slide up to the third position, third fret if you have them, and play the note there.
So if you have frets that's all you need to know. Listen to the tune so you know what you're trying to do and use the tab to help you find the notes.
If you don't have any frets then hopefully you'll have some markers on the neck to indicate your left hand position. On a standard guitar these position markers, we can call them dots, are on the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th and 15th frets. If you have the option of placing your dots, this where I'd suggest putting them. Another in the 10th position is a good idea too, intonation is trickier down here.
The Complete Cigar Box Guitar Chord Book: 3 String Cigar Box Guitar Chords In Gdg Tuning
If your dots are here then you're first dot is position 3, the second position 5 etc and you can play the tab above and everything in The Starter Pack. If they are placed elsewhere, or your not sure, then continue.
Getting the dots just right takes some careful measurement and is beyond the scope of this site but you can easily check where you're dots are if you have a guitar tuner or a piano and a really good ear.
So now you know the position of your dots you can find the notes in those positions easily enough. To find notes in the other positions move on.
String Tabs: House Of The Rising Sun
With the slide you can play an almost infinite number of different notes. We are only concerned with 12 of them and we need to be able to find them. You should have at least on pair of dots 2 positions apart. Positions 5 and 7 are commonly marked, they are used a lot. If you do then first listen for the sound of position 5, then of 7 and then bring your slide in between and listen for a note that sounds in tune. There's only one and it's located it in the middle somewhere. Use a tuner, or better still a piano, to verify.
Do the same in every other position. Sometimes the dots are three notes apart and there'll be two notes in the middle you'll have to find. Use a tuner if you need to, eventually you should be able to find them without one though. Eventually you'll be able to play all twelve notes in the western musical system, the Chromatic scale.
This will seem a bit tricky for now and, if your dots are in the standard positions, you won't need to do it at all in the Starter Pack. It will be much easier once you've learned to use your slide properly.
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