Category: How to Play Cigar Box Guitar

Stay weird.  Build weird guitars.  Play them for others.  Have fun.  That’s the lesson Shane delivers in today’s video.  Check out his wild diddley bow.

 

Chuck Berry taught us what rock and roll was.  Shane Speal teaches us how to play it on a 3 string cigar box guitar!

Attitude is everything…even if it means beating the heck out of your guitar to get those sounds.  Shane Speal is known for his violent approach to playing.  He’s even wearing a hole in his main cigar box guitar.

 

Here’s a unique walking bass line as heard in the Shane Speal song, “Willie Knows.”

 

Learn the funky Shane Speal rendition of Dyin’ Bed (aka In My Time of Dying) on 3-string cigar box guitar.  Tuned GDG

Shane Speal shows his EEB tuning and how it’s used on his song, Mother Leeds.

 

Shane continues his lessons on 4-string cigar box guitar

 

Shane Speal gives a straightforward lesson for 4-string cigar box guitar.  His chords are simple two-finger exercises.  Enjoy!

We just love Seasick Steve!  Shane shows how to use Steve’s 3-string tunings for cigar box guitar.

Shane gives more of his secret blues licks.  For this lesson, you’ll need a 3-string, fretted cigar box guitar tuned in Open G (GDG, low to high)

Shane Speal performs the Star Spangled Banner on a 3-string cigar box guitar and shows you how to do it on one string!