Play Jazz & Blues on the Cigar Box Guitar. Learning to play jazz and blues on the cigar box guitar is simultaneously easy and difficult. Easy because you only have 3 or 4 strings to worry about so fewer options than a standard 6 string guitar. Difficult because getting good full-sounding chords with 3 or 4 strings in GDG or GDGB tuning often requires bigger stretches for chords or large skips up and down the neck to play all the notes. The new two-book series "Jazz & Blues Unlimited" provides an excellent resource on both 3 and 4 string cigar box guitars covering most topics required to successfully play jazz and blues. Book one covers riffs, scales, and improvising, while book two covers more chords, fingerstyle, and chord progressions. All audio tracks and video tracks available here: www.brentrobitaille.com/cbg-jazz-blueswww.brentrobitaille.com/cbg-jazz-blues-video

Brent Robitaille is a musician and author well known as a music educator, composer/arranger, and owner of Kalymi Publishing. Brent is the author of 16 books which are in worldwide distribution. His books for "Cigar Box Guitar" are among the first books ever published for this instrument, including: "The Ultimate Collection" "Celtic Collection" "Blues Overload" "101 Riffs & Solos" & "Technique Book." His guitar books include "Improve Your Guitar Chord Playing" and the "Slide Guitar Collection." He has also written the "Traditional Collection Series" for violin, mandolin, ukulele & guitar. Brent is also a well-known music producer recording hundreds of arrangements and compositions with many artists and bands spanning a 30-year career. His music has been performed throughout the world including recent performances in Italy, England, and New Jersey. Brent is also a well known YouTuber publishing over 800 music videos. His music videos have accrued more than 5 million views in over 196 countries with 30,000+ subscribers viewing his videos daily. Brent studied composition, guitar, piano and theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Humber College, McGill University, and York University.