Description
Over 2 Hours of Video Tuition
Lifetime Access
Instructional and Playalong Videos
Download and Stream Videos
Download: Tab Scores
Audio Playalongs
Chord & Scale Sheets + MORE..
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Cost effective version of the main Course
12-Bar Blues Song uses Flatpick Technique
Play using standard 3-String GDG Tuning
This Song Course is good for Beginners,
up to Intermediate Level
Develop Essential 3-String Blues Chops
Take your Playing through the Gears:
Learn across 3 Levels, over 4 Videos
Welcome to the 12-Bar Blues 3-String Beginner Song Course
Cigar Box Guitar is the DIY musical revolution, but if you want to play songs by the Blues, Rock & Country greats, why not learn how to do it right?!
- This 2 hour video series contains the 12-Bar Blues Song, instructional & playalong lessons from the main course.
- This song is taught across 3 levels, allowing your playing to progress from Beginner to competent, Intermediate standard.
- Learning this song will help with useful techniques and info for you to start playing famous tracks on 3-strings, giving you the perfect foundation to develop into a well-rounded player, start jamming with others or with classic recordings.
- You get lifetime access and can either download the entire course, or use online links to stream the videos.
- This course is taught by Sion Littledyke: I’m a teacher & musician with a wealth of experience who’s been producing YouTube, Cigar Box Guitar videos since 2018 on the Coda Tuition channel. If you’re interested to hear more about my experience & teaching approach, please scroll further down this page.
- This 12-Bar Blues Song Series can provide the learners with several months of high-quality tuition and musical development. This is a more specialised & cost effective version of The Complete Beginner Course; there are different course options available at different prices on the Video Courses page.
- 20% Discount offered on all future purchases in the Complete Beginner Course series. For example, you can try the Beginner Exercises & Techniques or other Song Lessons in the future, and purchase at a reduced price.
How to use the 12-Bar Blues Song Series
(Please note, this course covers fretted note playing – watch this space for future slide guitar lessons)
- This course uses GDG tuning throughout: the standard & most widely used 3-string Cigar Box Guitar tuning.
- If you have a grasp of the 101 playing basics, you’ll be able to start learning the Easy 12-Bar Blues Song arrangement.
- The Easy version allows beginners to start developing speed & dexterity, alongside rhythm skills & fluency.
- Intermediate & Advanced versions will allow you improve significantly, taking several steps forward on your musical journey.
- Final Song Playalongs allow you to test your skills and chart your development.
There are numerous Downloads to help aid your progress:
Welcome PDF, suggesting how you can use the course
TAB Scores (printable formats for US, Canada & everyone else)
Audio Playalongs & Tuning Notes (for all song levels)
Video Timing Points (to aid with repeat viewing)
Several Freebies (including chord & scale sheets, audio practice beats + MORE..)
Flatpick Songs
- Flatpick technique is generally easier for beginners compared with fingerstyle, so it can be a good idea to start learning flatpick songs. This 12-Bar Blues will develop & improve your 3-string chops, allowing you to learn & play famous flatpickin’ tracks.
- In the full Complete Beginner Course, the songs gradually increase in difficulty & complexity, with this 12 Bar Blues song being slightly easier than the Classic Rock.
- 12-Bar Blues Song videos include:
2 hours of combined Tuition across 4 videos
Instructional Videos broken down line by line
In-Video Playalongs allowing you to chart progress
Full Song Video & Audio Playalongs across 3 levels
Single Note Riffs, Slides, Slurs & String Bends
Power Chords & Barre Chords with Strumming & Picking
How to Improve Time Keeping, Fluency & Speed
Audio Demos for the 12-Blues Song
12-Bar Blues (Level 1 – Easy)
12-Bar Blues (Level 2 – Intermediate)
12-Bar Blues (Level 3 – Advanced)
What students say about the course
I have been “sitting” in the CBG course for beginners for 2 weeks now. I would describe myself as an advanced beginner. What I was missing was a real, serious learning program for 3-string CBG.
Well, what can I say? I found exactly what I was looking for! Easy to understand instructional videos, with backing tracks AND TABs. I am absolutely thrilled and practise for 30 minutes a day. Every CBG player should know: an absolute must-have!
Uli Kuder, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
I wish I had this course from the beginning, it’s solved a lot of problems. I find good solutions to aspects of my playing, and I’m working my way through to get rid of some mistakes and bad habits.
I absolutely recommend this course. I haven’t seen such a profound introduction to CBG. Sion doesn’t take it for granted that you know where to place your fingers, so he gives you exact instruction on how to play most efficiently.
Margrethe Damkilde, Midtjylland, Denmark
I have now had a couple of months’ worth of lessons using videos and tab notation from Coda. It has made a massive difference, I feel I have progressed enormously and much more than I would have done on my own.
Sion’s tab notation is much easier to use than normal tab which doesn’t show timing, and the videos are extremely detailed and easy to follow.
Peter Kennerley, Cambridge, UK
Learning Paths
- Once you have access, the welcome video outlines the Complete Beginner Course content and suggests ways to use the resources; there are several learning routes you can take.
- If you’ve tried the 101 basics of playing 3-string Cigar Box Guitar, you should find that you’re well equipped to start playing the easy version of this 12 Bar Blues song. Compared to fingerstyle playing, most beginners will find flatpick songs easier at first.
- The Classic-Rock Song from the full course also uses flatpick playing. The easy version is also well within the capabilites of most beginners, and is at a comparable level. It’s slightly more varied with 3 different sections, so some beginners may prefer to start with this 12-Bar Blues Song.
- After completing at least 1 of these easy flatpick songs, you should find that your musical chops have developed significantly, so that you’ll find it comfortable to start learning fingerstyle technique. If interested, you could either continue with songs and try the Swung-Blues, or learn the basics of this style using the technique exercises.
- The Country-Rock fingerstyle song uses more open chords than the other songs, which can be more difficult for beginners compared to power chords & riffs. As a result, the Country-Rock is probably the most difficult of the 4 songs in the full series.
- The Complete Beginner Course is also available in full, or there are several more specialised course options available at different prices on the Video Courses page.
- This 12-Bar Blues Series can also help you develop 3-string skills to a standard where you can start learning famous tracks (check Coda Tuition on YouTube!) Cigar Box Guitar song arrangements appear across a range of difficulty levels, so you might want to choose a few easy tunes to learn. You can then return here and further improve using the Intermediate & Advanced level arrangements, before trying more challenging tracks online.
About the Tutor
- I’ve been playing 6-string guitar for over 40 years, gigging for over 30 years and teaching for over 25 years, which I started before I completed my music degree back in 2000 (Leeds Uni – 1st Class).
- I’ve been a big fan of the blues since I was a kid in the 1980s but more recently, a student introduced me to the world of Cigar Box Guitar. After learning to play and teaching him for a while, I started releasing 3-string tuition videos on the Coda Tuition channel in 2018.
- I regularly teach face-to-face & online across a range of instruments & musical areas including:
Cigar Box Guitar (3 & 4-string, slide & fretted note styles)
6-String Guitar (electric, acoustic, classical & lap-steel)
Bass Guitar (fingerstyle, flatpick & slap technique)
Banjo (5-string Bluegrass & 4-string Tenor styles)
Mandolin & Mandola (standard & Irish tuning)
Ukulele (Tenor & Baritone tunings)
Music Theory, Production & Composition
- I teach 1-1 online Cigar Box Guitar lessons to students from various countries including:
UK; USA; Canada; Australia; Belgium; Denmark; Germany & Brazil. - I use my 1-1 teaching experience to help with creating video lessons, since there are certain learning methods which are particularly effective for beginners, and also common pitfalls which are good to both highlight & avoid.
- I’m also aware that it’s good to strike a balance between introducing useful musical info & technique, and keeping lessons fun & interesting so, I try to create this balance in the video lessons throughout the Complete Beginner Course.
I hope you have fun learning to play your 3-string Cigar Box Guitar and I hope this course helps you to complete several steps along your musical journey – happy picking! Sion Littledyke
