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Pauline Leland
`Olu`olu
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 Posted - 07/25/2003 : 6:04:39 PM
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Originally posted by BreezePlease
Pauline,
Two quick questions:
1) What tuning(s) are you playing, or trying to play?
2) In what key do you usually sing?
-dean
Hi Dean,
1) Taro Patch
2) Most of my singing is with ukulele, and I think my target is often E, which is, of course, awful to do on a C-tuned uke. C is too high to sing with and too low to sing under. Bb works sometimes.
Hey everyone else,
Thanks for your continuing contributions. I've also heard good things about the handouts from George Kahumoku/Ed Bigelow; a source for them for those of us who have missed the workshops would be welcome.
Mark Hanson, in his book Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, has parallel thirds and parallel sixths, a few shifts from D7 to G, chord fingerings for G,C,D,& D7 and a few fingerpicking paterns, all in Taro Patch. Then he leaps into Ray Kane's "La Paloma" with no more than a passing remark that you might find pieces of the building blocks in one or two of the tunes he has transcribed. I want more hand-holding, sigh.
Aloha,
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 07/25/2003 : 6:21:31 PM
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Send a SASE to George requesting the handouts and he'll send them to you.
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Sarah
`Olu`olu
571 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2003 : 09:52:56 AM
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Then he leaps into Ray Kane's "La Paloma" with no more than a passing remark that you might find pieces of the building blocks in one or two of the tunes he has transcribed. I want more hand-holding, sigh.
Aloha e Pauline,
For what its worth – to me, La Paloma is too hard for beginning to learn slack key with...
I'm not sure, now, if you are still on the topic of playing with others, or if it's about vamps, or if your speaking of learning to play in general (or all of the above).
However, if it's hand-holding you want, there is nothing better out there in book-land than Ron Loo's books and tapes. He takes you thru measure by measure on the accompanying tapes. And as I've said before somewhere, his arrangements are an excellent source of a variety of traditional, easy-to-play vamps. Couple birds with one stone, there 
Aloha,
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rossasaurus
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 07/30/2003 : 11:02:45 PM
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Ed Bigelow's Napili Booklets are excellent resources, and it's kind of Ed and George to offer them here for SASE.
I use mine all the time!
Ed, are you going to "publish" these one day?
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ohanabrown
Lokahi
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Posted - 07/30/2003 : 11:21:12 PM
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Aloha, Ross
I've been trying to e-mail you since a week after the workshop but, it keeps sending it back to me. ( e-mail.)
Is it still the same, or maybe im doing something wrong.
Was great working with you and the rest of the taropatch ohana.
Malama Pono
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