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Learn to play “Smoke On the Water” on your Cigar Box Guitar with just ONE FINGER! [Video Lesson in Link]

Pretty much every would-be rocker of a certain age knows the opening riff to Deep Purple’s classic “Smoke On the Water”.

DUHN DUHN DUN, DUHN DUHN, DAH DUHN…

Fortunately, playing this riff on an open G “GDG” cigar box guitar is so darn simple it only takes one finger! In this video lesson, I walk you through how to do it, with simple tablature notation provided as well.

And hey, once you have the opening riff down, the rest of the song is just a bunch of notes and rhythm and stuff, no problem easy-peasy. Does anyone even know how the rest of the song goes? I’m not sure I do.

So grab your CBG and give this riff a try today!

[FREE TAB] You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive – 2 & 3 string cigar box guitars

Learn how to play the mournful country classic You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive on your 3-string cigar box guitar and 2-string bass with the totally free-to-download tablature in this post.

[FREE TAB] 2 & 3 String Tablature for Copperhead Road by Steve Earle

Learn how to play Copperhead Road by Steve Earle on your 3-string cigar box guitar and 2-string bass with the free tablature in this post. Continue reading “[FREE TAB] 2 & 3 String Tablature for Copperhead Road by Steve Earle”

How to Play On The Road Again by Willie Nelson – Free 2 & 3-string tab

Learn how to play Willie Nelson’s On The Road Again on your 3-string cigar box guitar and 2-string bass with the free tablature in this post.

Free 2 & 3-String Tablature For Yesterday by The Beatles

Learn how to play Yesterday by The Beatles on your 3-string cigar box guitar and 2-string G-Bass with the totally free tablature in this post. Continue reading “Free 2 & 3-String Tablature For Yesterday by The Beatles”

Free Christmas and Holiday Tablature for Cigar Box Guitar

Don’t forget that we have a library of free Christmas and Holiday tablature for cigar box guitars here on CigarBoxGuitar.com!

Here are a few of the highlights:

And quite a few more!

New Tablature for Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir by Guest Contributor Ben “Uke” Rouse

Click the image above to view the knowledgebase article for this tablature.

A few days ago we shared an awesome video of UK-based Ben “Uke” Rouse playing Led Zeppelin’s classic song “Kashmir” on a 3-string cigar box guitar. Well after a huge hue and outcry, Ben has worked out tablature for his arrangement, so that now you can try your hand at it too!

Ben has been a professional ukulele player and mandolinist in the UK for years, and only recently (VERY recently – he first picked up a CBG only a couple of days before creating the Kashmir video). You can find out more about Ben here on his FaceBook page.

We’re very happy to feature this here on CigarBoxGuitar.com, and hope to be presenting more of Ben’s tab arrangements soon.

3 New Cigar Box Guitar Tabs Added: Auld Lang Syne, Here Comes Santa Claus and O Come All Ye Faithful

We’ve just added 3 new pieces of 3-string cigar box guitar holiday tablature to the library. All three were arranged and tabbed by Glenn Watt, who during the Christmas rush of orders has taken over from Ben/C. B. Gitty as the resident tab-master. Click the links below to check out each – all 3 even include videos by Glenn showing you how to play the songs!

Auld Lang Syne

Here Comes Santa Claus

O Come All Ye Faithful

This is probably the last batch of holiday songs we’ll be adding this year, so we hope you are able to put them to good use, and we also wish all of you a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season.

Cigar Box Guitar Tablature Library added

We have just created a new section of the knowledgebase here on CigarBoxGuitar.com which will host a growing library of tablature for cigar box guitars, with a focus on the popular Open G “GDG” tuning style.

We have added a few initial pieces of tablature and more will be coming soon. Click the image below to check out what has been added so far!