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Auntie Nancy
`Olu`olu
USA
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 Posted - 03/27/2005 : 04:47:49 AM
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Aloha Karl!!
Ah, one of my very favorites that I don't see on anyone's list is HAPA's Ku'u Home O Kahalu'u.
Do you have enough sunshine now to play outside?
mahalo!!
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2005 : 9:38:32 PM
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Auntie Nancy,
I am afraid yor memory bank hjas lots more hawaiian music in it than mine. I have only been exposed for a few years, and mostly slack key, very few singing pieces aside from what we find on some of the slack key albums. So, i am not familiasr with any of the first group of songs.
I have concentrated on the music only so far, as i have no idea of the language yet, and tryig to sing in a new tongue, and play new material would really be quite daunting.
I did learn Ku'u E Home Kahalu'u this winter while on Kauai. THe arrangement is similar to Paul Tagioka's on his Slck Key Inn cd, which is a dandy. It si quite simple, no complicated fingerings and is a nice slow piece.
Rik, what i said earlier about playing a piece fast was just something i do on a rare occassion. If i am not progressing well on a piece, i will slow down, take it apart, work on the parts and put it back together again, but sometimes in (maybe) frustration i will just rip thru the bugger as fast as i can, and, darned if it doesn;t help! At lewst it works for me; next time i play it at normal pace, the parts come together better. Just as an example, have you ever tried to show someone how to play a piece r e a l l y s l o w l y, and find yo could not play it at all? You have to go back at pace and watch what you arre doing, then show it at a slower pace. I've even seen the pros do that on teaching videos; their fingers get tied up at ultra slow paces. Just another little tool. If it works for you , great, if not, chuck it. |
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slackkeymike
Lokahi
440 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2005 : 04:10:57 AM
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Originally posted by cpatch
Andy, did you learn Opihi Moemoe out of Leonard's book?
Yes, never worked through the tab note for note, though. I got the gist of the it from the book and then after listening to a recording of Led over and over, I sort of got it. Tried playing along and it's good enough that people recognize it as Opihi Moemoe.
Ledward has a book of tabs??
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Sarah
`Olu`olu
571 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2005 : 2:08:42 PM
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Aloha e Mike,
Leonard Kwan's book has the tab for 'Opihi Moemoe. Don't know if it is still available - maybe used.
aloha,
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
546 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2005 : 3:04:37 PM
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Aloha Mike,
FYI, As for now, Opihi Moemoe can only be found in Leonard Kwan's now out of print Slack Key Instruction Book, Tradewinds Recording, Honolulu, HI c. 1980. A friend Dennis Ladd put this endeavor together; he also did the tab of Oz's book. Every now and then a copy will pop up on EBay.
This transcription of Opihi Moemoe has a problem in terms of its time signature 12/8; it is too difficult to read for most, it should be 4/4. My thinking is that the choice of 12/8 rather than 4/4 is because of the instrumental hook played on strings 3 & 4. However, if you don't read music nomenclature anyway, then there's no problem -- just follow the numbers.
Overall most of the transcriptions are from Leonard's first album, known as the Red Album (the color of the record jacket). The Red Album is one of the best slack key albums of all time. It came out about 1961-62? Unfortunately, most of the songs (with the exception of My Yellow Ginger Lei) were ejected into the public domain as soon as the album was published and put out for sale. It was published and first put on sale during a period when the 1909 Copyright Act was in effect.
The 1909 Act was punitive. If an author or publisher did not secure statutory copyright (Federal) or provide statutory copyright notice (date of publication, with c in a circle or the word copyright), both the common law rights and statutory right to protection were forfeited -- and the work was ejected into the public domain.
Opihi Moemoe is I what I consider a classic slack key composition. I use my own transcriptions of the Red Album for classes and include Opihi Moemoe as part of the performance repertoire for my university ensemble.
Peter Medeiros
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wdf
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 07/25/2005 : 3:53:11 PM
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| Dancing Cat's website has handwritten sheet music for 'Opihi Moemoe click here. Someone with infinite patience could enter it into something like Powertab and produce tab. |
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slackkeymike
Lokahi
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Posted - 07/25/2005 : 4:33:43 PM
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Thanks all...I printed out the sheet music for keepsake...gonna look for a copy of Leonard's book.
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Papamonty
Aloha
USA
37 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2005 : 03:25:55 AM
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My repertoire:
He Aloha No 'O Honolulu (Ledward Kaapana)
Slack Key Lullabye (Ledward Kaapana)
Moe 'Uhane (Dream Slack Key) (Sonny Chillingworth)
Ho'omalu Slack Key (Sonny Chillingworth)
Liloa's Mele (Sonny Chillingworth)
La Paloma (Ray Kane)
Keiki Slack Key (Ray Kane)
Kealoha (part of 5 Song Medley) (Ray Kane)
Moana's Laundry Basket (Keola Beamer)
Kahuku (Patrick Landenza)
Lahaina Luna (Patrick Landenza)
Opihi Moemoe (Leonard Kwan)
Sase (Leonard Kwan)
Manini (Leonard Kwan)
Am working on next:
5 Song Medley (Ray Kane)
Thanks for looking.
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Ray Sowders
Akahai
USA
96 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2005 : 06:47:53 AM
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Howzit Folks,
I always wonder if most people list the instrumentals they know? I'm kind of different I guess. When I first started learning slack key I wanted to learn to sing the songs I would hear and love. Then needed to put the occasional pa'ani kind of forced me to learn some instrumentals to get some melodic runs to work with. I'm still more of a singer player, I guess. But then once you start getting involved in hula the pa'anis aren't required (or desired by most dancers and kumus) so my list of songs is a collection of instumentals, and songs that I sing. As a kid learning music I was surrounded by other players who did solos much better then I. So, I was content for a long time to sing, and let the others handle the solos. Slack key was the vehicle for me to finally put something more complete together. Since I usually play solo, it helps to have some licks to mix it up! Looks like you folks have been working hard out there. Lots of great songs listed. I don't know a lot of them, but that is the never ending story eh? So much great music out there! Which one to learn next? I just started working on a love song written by Elodia Kane called "Kuu Lei Poina'ole". She wrote the song about her love for Ray, it's a great song. Yuki Yamauchi put a nice arrangement together for it, now I can't put it down! Keep slacking everybody! Ray |
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HeartOTexas
Akahai
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Posted - 10/12/2005 : 2:59:56 PM
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Originally posted by Karl Monetti
Jeez, I better cheque the speling on my posts befour eye send the frum now on, a? Yes, it was the SAME, not the LAME songs. Sorry bout dat
Thanks for the links, ANd
Karl - where do you come up with this stuff?  I'm ROFL! (rolling on floor laughing!)
As another newby to Ki Ho'alu, I've been learning from Keola Beamer's book, "Learn to play Hawaiian Slack Key". I have the first four songs memorized now, and am working on the zen of the music. They are:
Isa Lei
Mino'aka
Moana's Laundry Basket (I slightly modified it)
And Papa's 'Okolehau
Working on: La Paloma
(Ray Kane's arrangement from Mark Hanson's book.)
Wanna learn:
All I can find time to learn. I'll be working through the Hanson book for the next few months.
This has been a great thread. Thanks to cpatch for starting it.
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HeartOTexas
Akahai
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Posted - 10/12/2005 : 3:28:29 PM
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One I wrote. I am having a heck of a time naming it. The best I have come up with so far is, "Can't surf, might as well write a guitar piece" Pretty catchy, eh?
How about something to do with Coconut Trees under the Northern Lights? or maybe Rubba Slippa's in da Snow? We could probably collaborate on some words to go with it.....
H.O.T.
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 11:26:45 AM
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Yo, H.O.T.,
Now you got me rolling in the aisles. I LOVE it! "Rubba Slippas in the Snow". It would actually go with the "Tiny Bubbles" music, but that isn' smarmy enough for me. I want some real kitsch. Actually, i think the tune is I wrote is sort of OK, so the words will really have to be awful to bring it down to the level of Tiny Bubbles
Maybe we can come up with words, like you said. I'll try sending you an email of me playing it. Jesse had done that with me earlier this year and it worked great.....now, if I can just dig up his instructions....... |
Karl
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Mika ele
Ha`aha`a
USA
1493 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 4:10:18 PM
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Karl,
Don't forget that the Hawaiian notion of long underwear is
----Boxer Shorts----
That and a Blue Hawaii is not the same as a Blue Alaskan |
E nana, e ho'olohe. E pa'a ka waha, e hana ka lima. |
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Bill Neubauer
Aloha
USA
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Posted - 10/13/2005 : 6:07:32 PM
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Can we still add to this list? Here's my lame repertoire. This is not every Slack Key tune I've ever learned and since forgotten, but tunes that I perform routinely whenever I gig in Buffalo;
"Moe Uhane" by Sonny (learned poorly by ear from Sonny's CD, and improved upon after hearing seemingly everybody playing it at the very first AMC back in 2001).
"Opihi Moe Moe" by Leonard (learned in T/P in Keola's class at that first AMC, but now I play my own arrangement of it in Keola's C - but still in the key of G).
"Holo Wa'apa" (in Keola's C - learned from Keola's first instruction book from the 70's, which I came across in a store in 2002. I often play this as a medley with "Walkin'In A Winter Wonderland", inspired by Leonard's playing of this on the first Kihoalu Christmas CD).
"Roselani Blossoms" (in F-Wahine, learned by ear from Keola's CD).
"Pua Sadinia" & "Keiki" by Ray Kane. My take on these two is to play them in F-Wahine, even though Uncle Raymond played them in Taro Patch. On his "Punahele" CD, it says he played "Pua Sadinia" in T/P "tuned down to F". I didn't know what that meant at first, so I was playing it in T/P, with the capo on the 3rd fret, actually playing it in the key of "D". I stopped that a couple of years ago. Then just recently I went back to it, but instead of re-tuning every string from DGDGBD down to CFCFAC (T/P "tuned down to F") I just figured it out by ear in F-Wahine. As it is, F-Wahine takes long enough to get to from anywhere, and I figured I needed more tunes in F so I could get there and stay there awhile. Anyway, I swear I'm playing it note-for-note the way he does, but you can't tell, even though we're in different tunings. (I'm just about done tabbing it out, if anyone wants to try it). And as long as I was there, I figured out ("fingered" out?) "Keiki" in F too. I just put the capo on the 2nd fret and play along with the recording. Plus I throw in a couple licks from John Keawe's version of it.
These three songs in F, plus my two arrangements from my CD of "Fairest Lord Jesus" and "Softly And Tenderly" in F, give me 5 altogether. I capo at 2 for "Keiki" and "Roselani Blossoms" - don't want to perform too many songs in a row in the same key.
On my "Wish List" is "Punahele" by Ray Kane, and "Wee Ha Swing" by Sonny (in Buffalo, you're not considered good unless you can play "fast").
Oh Yeah - I also Capo 4 in F, play a bare-bones Slack Key arrangement, and sing "Morning Dew". The other vocal numbers that I do are "Grass Shack" in Standard Tuning (Gasp!)in G and "Blue Hawaii" in A. Also, "Over The Rainbow" ala "Iz" - I play a lot of 4-note chords, ignoring the E and A bass strings, although it still doesn't sound like an ukulele.
I also perform two originals in the Slack style from my CD, plus three more hymns arranged for Slack Key, again from my CD, and always "Amazing Grace" in T/P, using the old needle trick on the last verse.
That's my limited Hawaiian repertoire, and I'm happy to be able to play them!
Bill N.
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RWD
`Olu`olu
USA
850 Posts |
Posted - 01/28/2006 : 2:59:32 PM
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I have been playing Slack key for two months so my list is short. The hardest one was my first, Ku'u Lei Awauhi Melemele, because I was new to slak key and the syncopation made it hard to learn.
Songs I can play by memory:
Ku'u Lei Awapuhi Melemele - arr. Keola
Kalena Kai - arr. Keola
Sanoe - arr. keola and I modified to resolve 2 chords and 2/4 played 4/4
Mino'Aka - keola
Songs I am working on:
No Ka Po - keola
Songs I want to learn:
Queen's Prayer - Ozzi
Aloha'Oe - ozzie
Kapalua Bay - keola
Ka Hanu O Evalina - Ozzi
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