Elderly Instruments Latest - Guitar Books, Videos & Media http://elderly.com/list/guitar_media/new.rss en-us copyright 2009 Elderly Instruments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:38:53 -0500 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:38:53 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 720 webmaster@elderly.com 1967 Custom Fidelity reissue; the legendary studio album from the late Steve Mann on CD for the first time! With Dick Rosmini, Taj Mahal and others, plus two two bonus tracks and a 16-page booklet with photos. ($14.95) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/BRM-CD112.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/BRM-CD112.htm 2009 -- 12 dazzling duets with fingerstyle icon Emmanuel and jazz phenom Vignola: "Paper Moon," "Django's Castle," "Clouds," Swings 39, 42, 09 and more! ($14.95) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/SACD-CD2090.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/SACD-CD2090.htm 14 cuts from this father figure of electric guitar, recorded for Capitol from 1948-53: "What Is This Thing Called Love?", "Lady of Spain", "Lover", "Brazil", more. ($11.95) ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/MW-CD051.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/MW-CD051.htm Originally released in 1966. Pensive, meditative, and features a definitive jazz hit version of "Little Drummer Boy." ($11.95) ]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/VERVE-CD76402.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/VERVE-CD76402.htm Book/DVD set. Retro-looking, no-nonsense approach to playing guitar. From holding your guitar to navigating the music biz. The DVD has video demonstrations, DVD/ROM with MP3 tracks for every song and example, play-along tracks, more. Play licks in the styles of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana, others. Includes chord dictionary with 1,700+ chords. Note/tab. 224 pp. ($24.95) ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/books/items/20-33420.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/20-33420.htm The country hitmaker and guitarist in a heartfelt, mostly instrumental tribute to his foremost mentor, "Mr. Guitar" himself! Mostly original tunes in a reverent Atkins style, a nod to Jerry Reed, a take on Atkins' legendary "Producer's Medley" and more. ($15.95) ]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/SELECTONE-CD2008.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/SELECTONE-CD2008.htm Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/books/items/20-33317.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/20-33317.htm 2009 - Ten original tunes from this genre-busting guitar ace; with Victor Wooten, Stuart Duncan, Noam Pikelny, Scott Vestal, Andrea Zonn and others. Includes "Meditate", "Road To Hope", "As Easy As Falling Off A Log", more. ($13.25) ]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/DREAD-CD0901.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/DREAD-CD0901.htm RCA Victor '70s instrumental reissues from these guitar greats. "Me And Jerry" contains pop covers such as "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "MacArthur Park", and "Cannonball Rag". "Me And Chet" includes "Jerry's Breakdown", "Mystery Train", "Good Stuff", and more. Also includes bonus tracks, detailed notes, and color booklet. ($19.95) ]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/RAVEN-CD301.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/RAVEN-CD301.htm Everything you need to know! Open A,D,E,G & standard tunings, slide scales for soloing in all keys, improvising - open-tuning chord forms, muting, vibrato, delta & electric blues, shuffles, more. Teaches the styles of: Robert Johnson, Keith Richards, Duane Allman, Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, more. From Guitar World magazine. Written music included as a .pdf file. ($13.45) ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/videos/items/20-DVD33913.htm http://elderly.com/videos/items/20-DVD33913.htm 3+ hours of intense music theory for the guitar: generating chords from scales, harmonizing scales, arpeggios and chord inversions, stacked chord voicings, voice leading, more. From Guitar World magazine. Written music included as a .pdf file. ($13.45) ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/videos/items/20-DVD33914.htm http://elderly.com/videos/items/20-DVD33914.htm Featuring: warm-up exercises, scale studies, economy picking, sweep picking, diminished/dominant 7th sweeps, writing heavy riffs, warped blues scales, modes & argeppios, more. From Guitar World magazine. Written music included as a .pdf file. 60 min. ($13.45) ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/videos/items/20-DVD33917.htm http://elderly.com/videos/items/20-DVD33917.htm All of these licks are integral elements of the jazz guitar vocabulary for developing motifs and fueling original improvisations. He covers Minor and Major 7ths motifs, chromatics, ii-V7 lines, minor vamps, jazzed blues runs, shuffles, double-stops, melodic development and more. He borrows from Charlie Christian, Barney Kessel, Joe Pass, Django, more. Get a grip on these 50 licks and you'll have the insight and chops to develop evocative solos from bossa to bebop, funk to blues to Gypsy jazz. A Guitar Lab product - employing a hands-on approach in which students "play" their way through the curriculum, using tools like tab files, practice rhythm tracks, more. 1 hour, 48 min. ($20.50) ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/videos/items/495-DVD8092.htm http://elderly.com/videos/items/495-DVD8092.htm This essential collection covers everything from intervals and sweep picking to classical riffs and whammy-bar workouts. Buono breaks down advanced concepts into versatile licks. Learn note targeting, pinch harmonics, control, moving between major and minor tonalities, soloing in the upper registers along with three-note per string concepts, tremolo picking, more. Will serve you well in any rock style: from blues to metal. A Guitar Lab product - employing a hands-on approach in which students "play" their way through the curriculum, using tools like tab files, practice rhythm tracks, more. 1 hour, 51 min. ($20.50) ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/videos/items/495-DVD8093.htm http://elderly.com/videos/items/495-DVD8093.htm The bread-and-butter of acoustic playing is covered in 50 lessons demonstrating fingerpicking patterns, open-string voicings, changes with bass lines, alternate tunings, Brit-pop strums, left-hand mutes, double-stops, funk patterns, alternating bass, movable chord-shapes, Travis-picking, harmonics, and much more. Teaches the techniques that define the acoustic masters. A Guitar Lab product - employing a hands-on approach in which students "play" their way through the curriculum, using tools like tab files, practice rhythm tracks, more. 1 hour, 43 min. ($20.50) ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/videos/items/495-DVD8094.htm http://elderly.com/videos/items/495-DVD8094.htm Dalton hand-picked a wide range of essential techniques and cornerstone licks, including pedal steel emulation, hybrid right-hand and chicken pickin' techniques, acoustic riffs, alternate picking, multiple string-bends and double-stops. Learn bluegrass riffs, major pentatonic runs with blues notes, dobro riffs, banjo rolls, string slapping and Travis picking. Joe also shares advanced soloing concepts like voice leading to help you build solos of your own. Useful for any country - alt-country, twang, roots-rock, country-rock, more. A Guitar Lab product - employing a hands-on approach in which students "play" their way through the curriculum, using tools like tab files, practice rhythm tracks, more. 1 hour, 48 min. ($20.50) ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/videos/items/495-DVD8095.htm http://elderly.com/videos/items/495-DVD8095.htm Jeff reached out to the Delta and beyond to deliver the building blocks that every consummate bluesman must know. He goes beyond the familiar minor pentatonic licks by uncovering the scalar approaches, turnarounds, comping ideas and signature lines of blues masters Clapton, Page, Green, SRV, Hendrix, King, T Bone, more. Learn sliding 6ths, chromatics, minor and major applications, killer double-stops, octaves, rakes, swing comping, more. A Guitar Lab product - employing a hands-on approach in which students "play" their way through the curriculum, using tools like tab files, practice rhythm tracks, more. 1 hour, 41 min. ($20.50) ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/videos/items/495-DVD8096.htm http://elderly.com/videos/items/495-DVD8096.htm 2009 - Gypsy swing with support from Diego Imbert on acoustic bass and Hono Winterstein on guitar. Special guest Roberto Alagna on "Be Me Love". Including "Lullaby of Birdland", "Something", "Blues", "Poinciana", more. ($14.95) ]]> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/DREY-CD36927.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/DREY-CD36927.htm Book/CD set. Explores the country's remarkable musical heritage - covering everything from the music of Russian villages to the sacred tones and melodies adapted from ancient Byzantine modes. Traditional instruments, like the balalaika, domra, and the seven-string guitar, are explained in detail, as well as the altered tunings and techniques designed to emulate them. Covers familiar work songs, romances of the Russian gypsies, and songs of the Russian bards. CD includes all the examples from the book. Note/tab. 47 pp. ($14.95) ]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/20-33483.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/20-33483.htm A straightforward approach to adding diminished and whole-tone colors to your improvisations. Geared toward the rock guitarist who has a firm understanding of pentatonic and blues applications, this book provides an excellent introduction into the world of applying altered tones that will take your playing to a new harmonic level. Many etudes, patterns and licks are demonstrated, showing how to get these tones under your fingers and into your playing today. Free audio downloads available. Intermediate. 32 pp. ($14.99) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-20791.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-20791.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 Studies teaching the basic notes on all six strings of the guitar. The studies are reinforced by original etudes and solos written by guitar pedagogue, Jack Petersen. Beginning. 60 pp. ($10.00) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-98548.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-98548.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 New electric guitar transcriptions compiled from the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 11 pieces, including "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K525 I," "Rondo alla Turka K331 III," "Sonata K545 I," and "Symphony #40 K550 I." As with other editions in this series, these transcriptions are intended to be performed with a pick employing string-skipping, alternate, hybrid, and sweep-skipping techniques. The selections have been performed in a variety of settings from accompanied solos to a sextet. Divided into two sections, music for solos and duets, and parts for larger ensembles - and full scores, canon solutions and the piano accompaniment score to the Turkish Rondo. Note/tab. Free audio downloads that include bonus tracks and playalongs are available. Intermediate/advanced. 88 pp. ($23.00) ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/02-99972.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/02-99972.htm