Elderly Instruments Latest - Bluegrass http://elderly.com/list/bluegrass/new.rss en-us copyright 2009 Elderly Instruments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:12:20 -0500 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:12:20 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 720 webmaster@elderly.com 3-CD set. 54 tracks drawn from his recordings for the Mother's Best Flour Company in 1951. This set includes more conversation, and each disc includes a complete show. Many highlights. ($34.95) ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/TLM-CD24922.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/TLM-CD24922.htm Over 100 Celtic tunes from Scotland and Ireland arranged for the 5-string banjo. Reels, jigs, marches, stathspeys, hornpipes and waltzes, which are played for traditional dances throughout Scotland. All the tunes are played out of standard G tuning without the use of a capo. They will expand your repertoire and challenge your playing using a mixture of single string, melodic and Scruggs style that will give both of your hands a good workout. Beginning/intermediate. 96 pp. ($17.95) ]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21275.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21275.htm 19 cuts, all geared to life on the road. "Enter Highway", "Road Hog", "Graveyard Shift", "Truck Stop Baby", more. ($13.95) ]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/PINEC-CD1171.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/PINEC-CD1171.htm Finally!! The accompanying CD for Scruggs' perennially popular instructional book sold separately. ($15.00) ]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/books/items/SCR-CD01.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/SCR-CD01.htm Banjo virtuoso Jens Kruger has devised a completely different approach to learning the banjo based on playing a simple melody surrounded by open drone notes. This easy but highly musical lesson will teach anyone - in minutes - to play the melodies to songs such as: "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," "Aunt Rhody," "My Grandfather's Clock," "Wildwood Flower," "Shady Grove," and other favorites in the three-finger banjo style. Back-up by the Kruger Brothers Band lets you play along with Jens for productive practice sessions. Beginners. Includes tab as PDF file on the disc. 90 min. ($26.95) ]]> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/videos/items/300-DVD378.htm http://elderly.com/videos/items/300-DVD378.htm 2009 - True to form, the band covers tunes by Mark Knopfler, Jerry Lee Lewis, Solomon Burke, and Slim Whitman. ($13.95) ]]> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/MCM-CD0014.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/MCM-CD0014.htm The holiday celebration of seasonal standards draws Charlie together with The Grascals, Kathy Mattea, Dan Tymninski, The Cox Family, Aaron Tippin, and Jewel. Includes "Blue Christmas", "The Christmas Song", "Joy to the World", "O Come All Ye Faithful", 12 cuts in all. Also includes a bonus DVD featuring 11 tracks of live performance footage and interviews with Charlie and some of his guests. ($15.95) ]]> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/KOCH-CD4754.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/KOCH-CD4754.htm John offers a fresh take on Christmas classics such as "What Child Is This", "O Holy Night", "I'll Be Home For Christmas", "Ave Maria", "Go Tell It On The Mountain," 12 cuts in all. ($14.95) ]]> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/KOCH-CD4759.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/KOCH-CD4759.htm Kaufman, three-time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. This installment of a four-part series brings us Steve's favorite Celtic hornpipes transcribed for the mandolin (and fiddle too). This collection of hornpipes will build your repertoire as well as help you develop more ideas, licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. Intermediate, 100 pp. ($19.99) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-20711.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-20711.htm Kaufman, three-time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. This installment of a four-part series brings us Steves favorite Celtic hornpipes transcribed for the mandolin (and fiddle too). This will build your repertoire as well as help you develop more ideas, licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. Companion audio is available in which all the songs are played note for note at about 3/4 speed. Beginning/intermediate. 92 pp. ($19.99) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-20742.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-20742.htm A fun collection of old-time Scandinavian dance tunes arranged for the mandolin. Great for dancing or listening and a perfect repertoire builder. Audio available for download contains all 28 tunes at slow and regular speeds. Includes a mandolin chord dictionary. Standard notation and mandolin tablature with accompaniment chords. Beginning/intermediate. 68 pp. ($19.99) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-20971.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-20971.htm Kaufman, three-time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. This edition brings us Steves favorite jigs and waltzes transcribed for guitar. This collection will build your repertoire and help you develop more ideas, licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. Companion audio is available in which all the songs are played note for note at about 3/4 speed. Beginning/intermediate. 108 pp. ($19.99) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21220.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21220.htm Kaufman, three-time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. Here are some of Steves favorite reels transcribed for guitar. This collection will build your repertoire and help you develop more ideas, licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. Companion audio is available for this title in which all the songs are played note for note at about 3/4 speed. Beginning/intermediate. 92 pp. ($19.99) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21222.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21222.htm Kaufman, Three Time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. The third installment of a four part series brings us Steve's favorite hornpipes transcribed for guitar. This collection of hornpipes will build your repertoire and help you develop more ideas, licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. Your goal is to learn the song, memorize it and then race with the Champ. Beginning/intermediate, 104 pp. ($19.99) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21223.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21223.htm This collection originally appeared in .Kaufmans Collection of American Fiddle Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar. (02-95748) but the book was so large it was divided into four volumes. Includes an explanation of the guitar tablature system and essential techniques such as bends, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs. Tunes are in alphabetical order and include both standards and lesser-known fiddle melodies. Companion audio downloads are available. Note/tab. Beginning/intermediate. 80 pp. ($20.00) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21449.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21449.htm This collection originally appeared in .Kaufmans Collection of American Fiddle Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar. (02-95748) but the book was so large it was divided into four volumes. Includes an explanation of the guitar tablature system and essential techniques such as bends, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs. Tunes are in alphabetical order and include both standards and lesser-known fiddle melodies. Companion audio downloads are available. Note/tab. Beginning/intermediate. 80 pp. ($20.00) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21450.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21450.htm In-depth lessons for players of all levels taught and recorded (slowly and up to tempo) by Waitze. Learn and improve the fundamentals of bluegrass flatpicking guitar! Effective right-hand and left-hand exercises, different backup styles, driving and syncopated rhythm, bass runs, crosspicking, melody and rhythm, gourmet bluegrass endings and licks, variations of your playing, and examples for improvisation. Exercises designed to help you find your way in and out of every possible twist and turn of the left and right hands. Note/tab. Free audio downloads available. Intermediate. 94 pp. ($23.00) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21829.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-21829.htm In order to harmonize, the lead note and the harmony note need to be in harmonic agreement with one another, as well as with the background chord and the key of the song. Steve found that in most cases, but not always, that thinking in thirds will usually achieve the desired sound. Also contains a section on how to read tablature, plus a discography. Note/tab. Intermediate level. 96 pp. ($22.95) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-99642.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-99642.htm Learn four more Scruggs tunes the Murphy Method way, note-by-note, with no written material at all! Includes 3 tuner songs, two of which ("Earl's Breakdown" and "Randy Lynn Rag") are also taught without using tuners. Other tunes are "Flint Hill Special," and "Reuben." Intermediate/advanced. 120 min. ($19.95) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/videos/items/285-DVD162.htm http://elderly.com/videos/items/285-DVD162.htm 2009 -- Banjo picker Nickerson steps out with a slate of 14 posterior-pounding tracks, featuring the members of Blue Highway: Rob Ickes on Dobro, mandolinist/fiddler Shawn Lane, songer/guitarist Tim Stafford and Wayne Taylor on bass. Some originals plus tunes from Jim & Jesse, Bill Monroe, Kenny Baker, the Gershwins and more. ($11.95) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/BONES-CD3181.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/BONES-CD3181.htm 2009 -- The perennially popular blue- and newgrass mandolinist in his sixth Sugar Hill solo album, "an aurally inspiring mix of bluegrass favorites and complementary new songs." With his band: Scott Vestal, Stephen Mougin, Byron House and Chris Brown, plus guests Del McCoury, Edgar Meyer, Jerry Douglas and more. ($15.95) ]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/SUGA-CD4055.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/SUGA-CD4055.htm His first recording on Rural Rhythm contains 12 gospel numbers including "I Will Not Be Denied", "Soul Train", Going Home", more. With Scott Napier on mandolin, Josh McMurray on banjo, and Matthew Madden on bass. ($13.95) ]]> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/RHYC-CD2001.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/RHYC-CD2001.htm 2009 - More numbers penned from band members Alan Bibey and Steve Gulley. 14 tracks including "Laura Lie", "The Door", "Lifting Up The Cross", "Heartbreak Express", more. ($12.95) ]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/PINEC-CD1170.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/PINEC-CD1170.htm 2009 - Self-penned tracks, combining bluegrass traditions with that of classic country, blues, and honky-tonk. ($13.95) ]]> Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/REBEL-CD1834.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/REBEL-CD1834.htm