Cigar Box Guitar Songbooks Guide
PLAY WHAT YOU LOVE
Our Songbooks will help YOU get started making great music on your Cigar Box Guitar!
Ben "Gitty" Baker created these books to help folks like you make sweet music on your homemade instruments. Each book presents a collection of familiar easy-to-play songs, along with detailed how-to play information, chord form references, historical info and much more.
This is the book to start with if you are just beginning. Includes forty-five beloved traditional songs, all arranged in easy-to-play tablature for 3-string Open G "GDG" cigar box guitars. Also includes how-to-play lessons, full lyrics, chord forms & more!
Building on Volume 1, this songbook presents another 49 well-known traditional favorites, also arranged for 3-string Open G "GDG" cigar box guitars.
If four-string cigar box guitars are more of your jam, this songbook has you covered. In it, Ben has re-arranged the tablature for 30 of the traditional favorites featured in his 3-string songbooks, specifically for 4-string Open G "GDGB" instruments.
Hymnal Series
These songbooks focus entirely on traditional sacred hymns and spirituals: the songs that have been the musical bedrock of Western Christianity for hundreds of years. Ben Gitty has created new tablature arrangements for 113 beloved songs, available in two volumes and also as a single large "Worship Leader's Edition."
Complete Hymnal - 113 Songs (316 pages)
Celtic Series
Ben Gitty has a deep love and appreciation for Celtic music: the music of Ireland, Scotland, elsewhere in the British Isles and beyond. This series of songbooks contains the best of traditional Celtic songs and tunes: drinking songs, love songs, rebel songs, songs of war and fighting, and more.
35 Beloved Irish Favorites for the "High Holy Day"
35 of the Best Irish (and related) Drinking and Pub Songs
35 Irish and Scottish Songs of Independence and Rebellion
38 Traditional Scottish Favorites - Love Songs, Patriotic Songs, Ballads of War and Battle
39 of the (Mostly) Sweetest Love Songs From Ireland and Beyond
38 of the Best Traditional Seafaring Songs from Ireland, Scotland, England and Beyond.
Other Songbooks
130 Pages of Traditional Christmas and Holiday Favorites