Pilot · 4 Numbers, Hundreds of Songs

Quilted maple, whisky burst

The star guitar

A dreadnought in quilted maple under a whisky burst, bound in curly maple, with gold hardware and a bone nut. Gold is the channel's accent colour and this is the guitar the channel opens on — the one that has to say, in one frame, that the room is black, the light is hard and the instrument is worth looking at.

The inlay

Four numbers, hundreds of songs — so the board gets the four-chord sky.

• Fret 3a pearl star
• Fret 5a pearl star
• Fret 7a pearl star
• Fret 9a pearl star
• Fret 12a pair of stars, and one comet crossing the board

What the episode teaches

Four numbers — I, V, vi, IV — play hundreds of songs, and they play them in any key.

The instrument

Body

Dreadnought

Woods

Quilted maple under a whisky burst, curly-maple binding, ebony board

Hardware

Gold, bone nut

Song

4 Numbers, Hundreds of Songs

Key

C, then G

Chords

C G Am F

Numbers

I V vi IV

Where to watch

This episode is not posted yet. When it is, it goes up on YouTube @NumbersNotTabs