"Baby Elephant Walk" - Fingerstyle Guitar

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This is my rendition of Henry Mancini's *Baby Elephant Walk* arranged for fingerstyle guitar. I'm in standard tuning but down a half step. There's a short intro to the song, so if you're in a hurry to get to *Baby Elephant Walk* move your cursor to 1:02.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Chet
• Atkins
• Tommy
• Emmanuel
• Doyle
• Dykes
• Baby
• Elephant
• Walk
• acoustic
• guitar
• fingerstyle
• fingerpicking
• Taylor
• 314

[Jasperguitar]

Hello. I LOVE your guitar work! I hope to play like that one day, no doubt. I'm just wondering. I have bought a taylor 214CE recently but I can't find a way to record it via somekind of line-in to my computer. Since I have just bought the guitar I don't have enough money for high-budget solutions. Do you have some advise for me?

Cheers from the Netherlands

[sthugh]

@Jasperguitar I used a pair of small diaphram condenser mics on this one. They were both Oktava MK012 mics. MXL makes some knockoffs for around a hundred bucks each that aren't bad, but if you can find a used Oktava on Ebay, I'd go with that,. You really only need one. That and a cheap little $80 Behringer or Yamaha mixer with phantom power is all your need. I just used a little Behringer on this recording. If you need to go straight to the board, I'd get the Fishman Aura for that pickup.

[Byrdmanguitar]

Great!! Watch out Doyle!! I love the intro - I presume that's yours? Is that a 600 series?

[sthugh]

@Byrdmanguitar,

Hi Joe,

I was just watching you perform Nuages, and that was terrific. I did a DJango cover a few months ago, but it didn't come out anywhere near as nice as yours, so it's still sitting on my hard drive.

I've just got a 314. It's all I can afford, but I like it as well as many of the 914s I've played. You have to look a bit harder to find a really good 314, but they're out there.

[perlariojas]

tab info?

[sthugh]

To the upper right where it says "more info".

I don't write stuff down though if you're talking about tablature.

[broomeydbr9]

111 likes, 11 dislikes, cooool! All the ones :P

[gatocabrito]

NIce.

[Jasperguitar]

@sthugh Thanks for the reply! I'm now googeling everything (:

[JodyBDaniel]

WoW that is impressive..i had to post it to my facebook wall , Amazing.

[MartinRaetzJr]

Great arrangement, wonderful playing. Bravo!

[magicbanana]

Really terrific. Loose and playful, but not overly goofyball, like so many versions of this tune.

[AnkeZohm]

wow - absolutely great!

[Monster2820]

It's great