Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar

CD and TAB Book

“Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar” is a collection of solo instrumental songs and medleys featuring the lilting finger-style guitar technique Mark learned by sitting in with master players like Uncle Ray Kane, Keola Beamer, Led Kaapana, John Keawe and Kevin Brown. These are the classic songs, played just as you’d hear them in a backyard kani kapila – full of interesting twists and turns, sometimes richly complex, but always nahenahe ~ “sweet!”

Recorded live at famed producer Billy Oskay's Big Red Studio in the Columbia Gorge, "Old Time Slack Key Guitar" is great to listen to, but even better as a companion to learning to play slack key guitar. There's no fancy studio magic, no overdubs except `ukulele on one track, and not other instruments to get in the way. The CD opens and closes with the soothing sounds of the waves at Kaupoa Beach, Moloka`i.

The 24 songs are part of the essential repertoire that every aspiring slack key player should know. (OK, Mark tossed in two originals, too. Maybe he's looking for low budget immortality?). Whether you are a guitarist looking to discover Hawaii's unique musical style, a long time slack head searching for repertoire, or just someone who loves sweet fingerstyle guitar playing, you'll love "Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar."

To help students master this unique art form, Mark has written a 90 page TAB book with complete transcriptions of all 24 tunes. Written in Tablature and standard musical notation, these are full-blown arrangements complete with intros, variations, solos, bridges and modulations and codas. Most transcriptions run four pages or more. If you've been studying Mark's downloadable TAB, these arrangements might surprise you ~ familiar songs are played in different keys or tunings, and with many more twists and turns. If you thought you knew how to play Ahe Lau Makani, check out Mark's beautiful new arrangement in D major! And here, at last, is a solo setting of the duet "Tiare Tahiti," which Mark and Keola arranged for their 1997 book, "Learn to Play Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar."

Says Mark "My students have been asking me to transcribe a song the way I play it, with all the improvisiations, slurs and syncopations. Well, here are twenty-four of 'em!" Tunings include Taro Patch (in G, F#, F and Bb!); Double Slack (G and Bb), Drop C (C and Bb), F Wahine and D major (in F, naturally!)..

Because the TAB follows the CD so closely, you'll want both!

1) Pua Lena/Kealoha/E Huli Ho‘i Mai/Mauna Loa
2) Maunaloa/Pauoa Liko Ka Lehua
3) Kowali
4) Paniolo Slack Key (Malasadas)
5) Ku‘u Lei Awapuhi Melemele (My Yellow Ginger Lei)
6) Ahe Lau Makani
7) Nanea Kou Maka I Ka Le‘ale‘a
8) Moloka‘i Waltz
9) Moana Chimes
10) Old Timer’s Hula/Slack Key Hula
11) Hula Blues
12) Taro Patch Blues
13) Tiare Tahiti
14) Kaulana Na Pua
15) Playful Popoki
16 ‘Ulupalakua
17) Kanaka Waiwai
18) Kimo’s Slack Key
19) Papakolea

Thanks to the miracle of on-demand printing, you can buy both the CD and the Tab Book direct from Create Space!!

Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar CD

Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar: Complete Tablature Book

Purchase on-line via PayPal. You do not have to be a member - just click on the button! Mahalo!

Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key CD $15.00 plus $4.50 shipping	.

Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar TAB Book Now available as a Downloadable PDF without the CD for $15. (CD available on iTunes).	Go to TAB downloads page!

You may also order by sending a check or money order to
acme arts
PO Box 967
Jacksonville, OR 97530
Be sure to add $4.50 for shipping the CD; and include an e-mail address for the TAB book