Elderly Instruments Latest - Books - Steel & Pedal Steel Guitar http://elderly.com/list/newitems?catlist=215 en-us copyright 2009 Elderly Instruments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:30:13 -0500 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:30:13 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 720 webmaster@elderly.com Book/CD pack. Designed for anyone just learning to play the six-string lap steel guitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide by country music veteran Johnie Helms includes many fun songs and hot licks to learn and play. The CD contains 95 tracks of licks and cool songs for demonstration and play along. Covers: tunings (open G, open D, open A and open E), string gauges, chords, scales, key positions, right and left hand techniques, vibrato, string pulls, slants, and more. Note/tab. 47 pp. ($9.99) ]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/49-695967.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/49-695967.htm Designed to fit in your guitar case, this includes over 70 of the most popular and useful tunings for acoustic & electric lap steel guitar, bottleneck slide guitar, resophonic guitar, Weissenborn-style, and Hindustani slide guitar as used by the greatest players of the past and present. Features tunings & string gauges for Rock, Blues, Country, Hawaiian, Western Swing, Folk, Celtic, Bluegrass, Jazz, Pop, Cajun, Ambient, Classical, Raga and every genre in between. Presented in an easy-to-read, graphic manner, the strings, notes, & musical intervals for each tuning are shown along with comments about the tuning; its uses, advantages and the players who've used it. A string gauge chart helps you set-up each tuning with the proper gauge strings. For 6, 8, 10-string guitars. Half-size, 39 pp. ($10.95) ]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:00:00 -0400 http://elderly.com/books/items/618-5.htm http://elderly.com/books/items/618-5.htm