Video - DVD / CD-ROM

Slide Guide

"Slide Guide" opens up the wonderful and exhilarating world of slide guitar playing with step by step guidance from Richard Gilewitz who covers a plethora of elements that will add a whole new dimension to your repertoire.

You'll become skilled at the basics of deciphering the difference between 1/8th note and grace note slide movements and multiple combinations of basic fingerpicking patterns peppered with more complex timing considerations such as triplets and 16th notes.

Beginners will learn the proper way to hold a slide, the basics of vibrato, simple slide motions, and the art of dampening for smoother, richer tones. Intermediate players will benefit with exercises introducing shimmer and rattle techniques and an introduction to more advanced picking patterns while using the slide. Advanced players will be challenged to utilize the many exercises as inspirations for their own original compositions.

Open D, G, and C tunings are explored in "Slide Guide" along with explanations and exercises specifically designed for the 12-string guitarist. Electric guitar players will benefit as well from the same palette of slide techniques presented in this video.

"Slide Guide" will prove to be an exciting addition to any players' life-long library.

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Guitar Foundations

Richard set out to create a modular course of study focused on building solid foundations for playing, practicing and performing acoustic guitar. Guitar Foundations is an innovative course of study optimized for beginner to advanced players and features 157 minutes of interactive video instruction across 27 video lesson segments. Additional learning materials include text commentary, tab, notation and charts.as it serves multiple purposes for multiple levels of play.

Beginners will learn the fundamentals from the ground-up with a simple building block approach that unlocks the mystery of music theory, explains chord types, and the design of different keys. Intermediate players can select slabs of discussion about suspended and 9th chords, plus inversions, and how to build upon existing picking patterns to create new sounds utilizing triplets and 16th notes. Even advanced players will benefit from revisiting and perhaps even retooling their techniques. All levels will enjoy tackling a spruced up 12 bar blues with restoration of chord and scale shapes along with rhythm patterns.

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Fingerscapes

A cerebral course of study for guitarists across all styles. For the left brain; a palette of tools and techniques for rousing creativity. For the right brain; an “imaginarium” to stimulate invention. Fingerscapes is also chock-full of paradoxes. You’ll learn fingerstyle moves, but this is not necessarily a fingerstyle course – flatpickers are more than welcome. You’ll work with open tunings, but this is not an open tuning course. You’ll learn how to compose original tunes, but no harmony and theory here. The entire curriculum is presented on acoustic guitar, but feel free to plug-in the electric, pump up the volume and wail away.

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"Richard Gilewitz, Live at Charlotte's Web"

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(MB21640DVD)

A 66-minute DVD, filmed and recorded live at the Mendelssohn Club in Rockford, Illinois. This long awaited Charlotte's Web performance concert captures the essence of Richard Gilewitz skipping along the magical journey of the various musical genres of acoustic guitar. For those who have only heard Richard's playing on his CD's or the radio, the live DVD will be an eye opening experience as his fingerstyle gymnastics - along with his home spun yarns too unbelievable not to be true - are brought to life during this performance. Known as one of the strangest men in acoustic music today, Richard Gilewitz fascinates his audiences with his ability to make one guitar sound like an entire orchestra, creating his own signature sound that is now available on DVD. It is his live shows that bring out the best in this man who follows a distinct cadence that creates a glow that continually grows a little brighter with each tune.

This Charlotte's Web concert performance includes the following tunes performed by Richard Gilewitz:

• Available Space by Ry Cooder
• Daughter of Pete's Feet*
• Echoing Gilewitz*
• Embryonic Journey by Jorma Kaukonen
• Gove's Tune by Gove Scrivenor
• Have You Ever Seen a Rainbow at Night?*
• Minuet for the Backroads by Gove Scrivenor
• Pete's Feet*
• Prelude No.1 by David Walbert
• Prelude No.2 by David Walbert
• I Am Eaten By Sharks by David Walbert
• Spanish Two Step by John Fahey
• St. Louis Blues by William C. Handy
• Synapse Collapse *
• The Last Steam Engine Train by John Fahey
• Thumbsing *
• Wazamataz *

* by Richard Gilewitz

"All-Time Favorite Fingerpicking Guitar Tunes, Volume One"

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(MB21326DVD)

Contains six popular tunes demonstrated and taught by rote method. Recorded at the Renaissance Arts Center in Tampa, FL, this 102 minute DVD contains an array of tunes personally selected by Richard for their common nature involving folk, blues, or ragtime themes.

Set in a relaxed "living room chat" atmosphere, with Richard often adding extra comments while playing, this completely live DVD is made up of some of Richard's favorite selections that he has accumulated, arranged, and learned over the past 31 years that he has been playing fingerstyle acoustic guitar.

Now it's your turn to learn to play:

• "Freight Train" by Elizabeth Cotton
• "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie
• "In Christ Their is No East or West" by Wm. Dunkerley and A. Reinagle
• "Scarborough Fair" a Traditional Tune
• "The Last Steam Engine Train" by John Fahey
• "St. Louis Blues" by William C. Handy

DVD - All Star Guitar Night

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10th Anniversary Concert All Star Guitar Night Tribute To Chet Atkins DVD. Recorded live at the Historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville Tennessee, July 2002. This 70-minute DVD features outstanding tributes from a number of artists, live interviews, and artist lessons.
Tracks include:

1. Mr. Bojangles - Muriel Anderson
2. County Down - Phil Keaggy
3. Sir Duke - Ben Lacy
4. Wazamataz - Richard Gilewitz
5. Two Shores - Muriel Anderson & Phil Keaggy
6. Happy Again - Thom Bresh
7. Washington Post March - The 2nd Nashville Guitar Quartet
8. Honeysuckle Rose - Richard Smith, John Pell, Dave Pomeroy
9. Mister Sandman - Suzy Bogguss, Muriel Anderson, Jenai
10. A Baker's Dozen - Muriel Anderson
11. Deep Gap - Alison Brown with Muriel Anderson and Vassar Clements
12. My Favorite Marsha - Alison Brown
13. That's Alright Mama - Johnny Hiland
14. Seymour's Blues - Seymour Duncan
15. Baby's Coming Home - Brent Mason
16. Alabama Jubilee - Nokie Edwards
17. Reminiscence - Victor Wooten
18. Mountains Of Illinois - Pat Bergeson

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