MeadGuitars has teamed with international blues teacher, author, and musician Andi Saitenhieb to produce:

Cigar Box Guitar - How to Play / Learn to Play

The Complete Guide This DVD contains more than 3  1/2 hours of detailed step-by-step instruction in over 70 short and easy to follow tutorials.  Not only will you learn to play classic blues melodies and riffs, you will learn basic and advanced techniques and quickly become a great player;  All from an experienced blues guitar teacher.  The instruction assumes you have absolutely zero experience playing a stringed instrument, and brings you to a mastery level in no time.

Andi is a professional musician/teacher, specializing in Old School Blues (Delta Blues & Country Blues on acoustic, and Chicago Blues on electric).  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.  For this DVD, he has remastered and videotaped the material in one of his books specifically for the Cigar Box Guitar.  

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All of the tutorials on this DVD are played on a MeadGuitars 3 string CBG tuned to open G.  However most all of the information presented can easily be uses on other instruments with other tuning.  Although Andi is from Germany, his English is quite good. This DVD is recommended for anyone wanting to learn to play cigar box guitar.  If all you want to do is pick up a few licks, turnarounds, and techniques, you can quickly and easily do that with this DVD.  But if you also want to go deep into advanced blues techniques and theory, that is covered as well.  Within days you will sound like you know what you are doing.  Within weeks you actually will know what you are doing.

The material is presented in concise 1 to 5 minute video clips, accessible in a easy to use DVD user interface.  At your desk, in your living room, or in your hotel room, you will have ready access to dozens of tutorials in the following chapters:

  • Basic Techniques Advanced Techniques
  • Tuning
  • Blues Formulas
  • Intro's, Endings, & Turn-Arounds
  • Chords
  • Melodies & Riffs
  • Playing Slide
  • Hand Percussion

You will learn to play licks from blues guitar greats like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson, and Eric Clapton.  There is even a version of Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple that you will actually be proud to play. 

Although the course includes many videos on advanced chords and progressions, given Andi's casual teaching style, you can become very proficient at playing without ever looking at them.  The Playing Slide chapter alone includes 8 different videos covering right and left hand techniques and will teach you slide songs from blues greats.

This DVD plays on TV's around the world as well as desktop and laptop computers.

Why not move to the next level with your cigar box guitar and REALLY learn how to play it well. 

There are other less-expensive training DVD’s available on eBay.  Our professionally edited and produced course is taught by a professional guitar teacher and musician containing significant quality and quantity of content, worth every penny charged. The price you pay for this DVD is a fraction of the cost of live one-on-one training that Andi provides all the time.  There are also Cigar Box Guitar training books available on eBay as well.  Learning to play anything using a book is much harder than visual, personal, video instruction


Other Cigar Box Guitar DVD Offerings 

How to Play Cigar Box Guitar BLUES
Over 2 hours of step-by-step instruction covering song components of 12 bar blues songs.  The numerous interchangeable song components you will learn are based on the works of blues founders Little Walter, BB King, Buddy Guy, Robert Lockwood Jr., Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Junior Wells.  Includes innovative looping of demonstration videos, training videos, and each play-along song component.  Check it out here    

Two Disc Combination - This Complete Guide disc along with The How To Play Cigar Box Blues disc.
DISCOUNTED PRICE when you purchase both of these 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.  Check it out here   


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