Looking for a good starting point on how to finger some nice, tropical sounding "Hawaiian" guitar chords. Got anything good for me folks? Thanks!
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 07:26 PM
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 07:29 PM
Just curious, what does a Hawaiian guitar chord sound like? |
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Joined: Aug 27, 2008 Posts: 1570 New York
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 07:32 PM
Beats the hell out of me.. haha. Hence the parenthesis around the word Hawaiian. I am thinking like... island, tropical sounding chords. Maybe something like Laika and the Cosmonauts' "Fadeaway". |
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 07:37 PM
Oh, ok . . . |
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 07:41 PM
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 07:52 PM
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 08:25 PM
I love that King Benny Nawahi comp! Sometimes I like him more than Sol, but why choose . . so much great pre-electric playing on those Nationals. Sam Ku West, and also Bob Pauole with the duo "The Genial Hawaiians" will also blow your mind if you are so predisposed. Not as fiery perhaps, but technically advanced. Brozman is the only modern player that I can think of that can rip those triplets so cleanly like the greats of old. Though he dislikes Roy Smeck, I do hear a touch of that over the top, almost vaudevillian zaniness in his approach sometimes. But that showmanship was always part of the style. I'm working with the Brozman Traditional Hawaiian Steel Guitar dvd, which is great and a lot to digest. Bob is a very inspirational musician and teacher. One of the best shows I ever saw was with him with slack key master Ledward Kaapana. They have a real simpatico melding of the minds when they get together that is special. |
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 08:44 PM
Zak, there was a great Casey Bill Weldon 2 volume complete works CD set put out by Document Records--recommended, if you can track them down. |
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 08:49 PM
I have it somewhere around here in his own words, but I don't need to dig it up because I have it memorized (it's so good): "Roy Smeck plays like someone who has had his taste surgically removed." |
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 09:10 PM
Just search "slack key". I went through a very heavy slack key phase right after my ragtime phase |
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 09:18 PM
I found the exact quote. Liner notes for "Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics (1927-1938)" ( Arhoolie CD7027) Bob on Smeck's Indiana March : I guess I paraphrased, but that's where I got the idea he wasn't a big fan. |
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 09:29 PM
Badash, for beginners interested in this style, I can't recommend Ozzie Kotani's "Guitar Playing Hawaiian Style" book and CD highly enough. The next best thing to having a private teacher right there. And now I hear he has made a companion video! I agree about Led. I don't know if it is still up, but go to the Kennedy Center concert archives, and there was a whole concert of Led solo slack key. Man oh man . . . Sorry about your thread Matt . . . I promise, I'm done. |
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 10:02 PM
I enjoy Bob's National Guitar book. I want to enjoy his playing, but I just can't on some level. It's generally so precise it's machine like. Machine like blues don't appeal to me. |
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Posted on Feb 23 2009 10:06 PM
Roy gets points in that clip for "first use of phaser" with that swinging the Uke around action! |
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Posted on Feb 24 2009 07:14 AM
Thanks for the insight. I will check some of this out. |
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Posted on Feb 24 2009 11:57 AM
And yet he keeps saying it all comes back to Charlie Patton for him. I hear the same "precision" in all the music he plays. Even the few gypsy jazz pieces I've heard. The 2 and the 4 are late as they should be, but hey are unwaveringly precisely late. It just lacks life for me. |
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Posted on Feb 24 2009 12:09 PM
great discussion and clips everyone. Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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