Learn to Play Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar (book/CD)

Mel Bay Publications
Level: Beginning-Intermediate

Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar (Ki Ho'alu) is one of the world's great acoustic guitar traditions. This tradition includes virtuoso guitar pieces, but the majority of songs played slack key are the classic Hawaiian melodies either played as instrumentals or accomaniment to vocals with instrumental breaks between verses. Slack key does not mean a type of guitar - rather, it is any guitar played slack key style.
The slack key tradition is one of the roots of mainland American Country music, since the pedal steel guitar came from the lap steel, which came from the acoustic steel, which came from the slack key guitar. The slack key guitar and the classic Hawaiian music tradition can have the emotional depth of the blues, but has more emphasis on melody.

Ka Mua O Ka Mokuna:

• Taro Patch Tuning
• The Hawaiian Turnaround
• Two Approaches to Creating Slack Key Arrangements
• On Arranging
• Variations on a Theme
• Using Modulation
• Selected Songs and Tunings Used in Ki Ho'alu
• The Entire Instrument Sings
• C Wahine or Keola's C Tuning

and more

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• The Art of Hawaiian Steel Guitar vol.2
• Swinging In Hawai (quattro chitarre) - 50%
• La chitarra e le culture musicali