Short doc an a guy that makes cigar box guitars:
Here is a video profile I made about a cigarbox guitar maker here in St. Louis. Mark Vickroid makes wonderful homemade guitars out of old cigarboxes. Some of them even have an amp built in. I went to his house to see how he made them and talk to him about how he got started. He’s pretty funny — and if you check the sidebar links you will see a related video of him performing.
I was surfing around Flickr tonight and kind of bored; so I though I’d pick out what were the 5 most interesting photos.
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I found what I think to be one of the more interesting guitar blogs on the net - Guitar Flame. Written by Ovidiu Oprescu from Romania the blog has tonnes of interesting articles. Here are my favorite 3 so far:
If you’ve become stagnant in your playing or you are new to guitar, here are some tips that might light your fire. One hundred and one of them to be precise.
Check this guy out! You can view more of his work on his profile on Youtube.
If you’ve been viewing any guitar vidoes on YouTube lately you might have come across some pretty crummy playing by some of rock’s greatest lead guitarists. The god awful guitar work has become popular lately on YouTube with one Metallica clip receiving over 140,000 views in the last couple of months.
This little video made me think of an octopus. Imagine if you had like 8 arms, you could play some crazy stuff. These guys look like their having a good time, but I just have to ask, what’s with the hankerchief?
Broken headstock? No worries learn to fix it yourself.
I came across some interesting Drop D Guitar chord shapes well surfing the net today. Check out the PDF. I don’t know if that is a song or whatever, but there are definately some interesting shapes in there to play around with.
Click here for a Drop D tutorial, or if you prefer try the alternate tuner.
