How to Play Cigar Box Guitar BLUES Lessons / Training / Tutorial / DVD

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How to Play Cigar Box Guitar
B L U E S
Training, Lessons, Tutorial
MeadGuitars has teamed with international blues teacher, author, and musician Andi Saitenhieb to produce another great teaching DVD
The entire focus of this teaching experience is on playing the twelve-bar blues on a cigar box guitar.
This DVD contains more than 2 hours of detailed step-by-step instruction that cover many authentic and interchangeable 12-bar blues song components based on the works of blues founders Little Walter, BB King, Buddy Guy, Robert Lockwood Jr., Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Junior Wells.
The twelve bar blues progression is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music today.  It has a distinctive form in lyrics, phrase, chord
structure, and duration.  It is known and played world-wide.  Once you know the basics, you can play for hours with friends or strangers.    You will fit in practically anywhere the blues are being played.  Even if you don't speak the same language, you can play along if you know some 12-bar blues song components.
Each of the 13 chapters is broken up into 5 videos that focus on a “high” and “low” part of a given song.
Each with its own characteristics, but both fitting together nicely.
And most of these high and low parts can be played with those learned in the other chapters of the DVD.
You will gain the ability to easily mix and match the pieces as you see fit.
After completing this course, you will have enough skill to make up your own riffs, rhythms, and songs, all sounding great together in the 12-bar blues style.
In addition to hands-on instruction from Andi, each teaching video includes dynamic on-screen tabs and overlays.  These show you the specific fingering of each note and includes graphics indicating hammer-on, sliding, and muting.  No need for books, or sheet music with strange symbols.  Simple, clean, easy to understand.
Each chapter uses a backing track that you can download from Andi’s website.
The tracks provide drums, guitar and other instruments to help keep you in rhythm, and keep you motivated to continue learning.
Playing along with the backing tracks, you will sound great in very little time.
This disc offers something no other Cigar Box Guitar training offers:  Infinite play loops.
Demonstrations – Will play all 26 different 12 bar blues song demos with the complete backing tracks back-to-back-to-back.  And once the last one completes; it will start over again with the first.  Initially this is good to get a taste of what you will be learning.  But more importantly, once you have gone over the material it provides a great way for you to drive home everything you’ve learned in a concise and efficient play-along or listen-only format.
Lessons – Will play all 26 lessons including on-screen tabs and instruction back-to-back-to-back.  Imagine being stuck on an airplane, on a long car ride, working around the house, or laid up on the couch for an extended recovery.  This feature will allow you to watch and listen to the material in an ifinite loop without having to press any buttons.
Individual Lessons - Will play the one song component you select in a continuous clean loop.  This is a very effective way to get in concentrated practice time for each riff and melody covered in this blues tutorial disc.
Andi is a professional musician/teacher, specializing in Old School Blues (Delta Blues & Country Blues on acoustic, and Chicago Blues on electric).
Playing and teaching the blues is his full-time job.
With his years of experience teaching people how to play the guitar, he knows what works and what doesn't, and it shows in this course.
He provides private lessons and on-line blues guitar workshops. He is the author of two bestselling blues guitar books in Germany.  Andi is also a contributing author for 'Gitarre & Bass', a popular Guitar magazine in Europe.
Our initial Cigar Box Guitar teaching DVD entitled “Playing the Cigar Box Guitar, The Complete Guide” focused heavily on techniques such as strumming, muting, plucking, slide, hammer on/off, bending, chords, and others, as well as step-by-step instruction on a variety of complete songs.
This DVD however focuses specifically on riffs and song components of the twelve-bar blues progression.
Both training DVD’s have their place, depending on what it is you want to learn.
Other Cigar Box Guitar DVD Offerings
Playing Cigar Box Guitar – The Complete Guide
Over 3.5 hours of instruction for the beginning or advanced player covering many different CBG techniques including strumming, muting, plucking, slide, hammer on/off, bending, chords, and others, as well as step-by-step instruction on a variety of complete songs.
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Two Disc Combination
- This BLUES disc along with The Complete Guide disc.
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on the two discs covering both techniques AND the blues.  Great gift for yourself or someone you care about that would really like to jumpstart their Cigar Box Guitar experience.
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This DVD plays on TV's around the world as well as desktop and laptop computers and gaming consoles.
Instead of spending your time learning a few songs, that only a few of your friends and family may know or recognize, why not learn lots of interchangeable twelve-bar blues components that you can swap in and out as you see fit.
You will be pleasantly surprised at how far you can take your cigar box guitar blues playing with the lessons taught in this easy-to-follow professionally mastered course.
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