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mpi_50
Lokahi

USA
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Posted - 11/30/2008 :  7:00:25 PM  Show Profile  Send mpi_50 a Yahoo! Message
I attended the Nov. 22nd show Keola and Maonoalani Beamer did in Antioch, Ca. It was nice to reunite with my classmate. It was a great show and at the end while he signed a CD, I asked him about tunings. I used the Kilauea tuned to C. He said that it was nice but to try C wahine. I settled for Keola's C. Now the problem, I had a pretty good repertoire of songs in C Kilauea. I have none in Keola's C. Any help with chords would be greatly appreciated. I can transpose to the songs that I have. I noticed that Keola's C can almost be used with uke chords, am I on the right track? MAHALOZ!

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Pupule

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Posted - 11/30/2008 :  8:07:13 PM  Show Profile  Visit Admin's Homepage  Send Admin an AOL message  Send Admin an ICQ Message  Send Admin a Yahoo! Message
See if this helps a bit. http://www.taropatch.net/tunings_cwahine.htm

Andy
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Allen M Cary
Lokahi

USA
158 Posts

Posted - 12/01/2008 :  11:45:44 AM  Show Profile
You may have noticed that Keola's C has the same tuning of the first 4 strings as standard tuning. Therefore all of the one and two finger chords you learned when first picking up the guitar will work. It is a good starting point.
Aloha
Allen
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mpi_50
Lokahi

USA
133 Posts

Posted - 12/01/2008 :  6:28:53 PM  Show Profile  Send mpi_50 a Yahoo! Message
Mahalo, I'll try the chords out. Now do the uke chords really work or am I just delusional?
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Pupule

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Posted - 12/01/2008 :  6:38:18 PM  Show Profile  Visit Admin's Homepage  Send Admin an AOL message  Send Admin an ICQ Message  Send Admin a Yahoo! Message
quote:
Originally posted by mpi_50

Mahalo, I'll try the chords out. Now do the uke chords really work or am I just delusional?

The ʻukulele chords work since the first 4 strings of Keola's C are the same as standard tuning. Compared to uke, the intervals are the same, but notes are different. The ʻukulele is as if you had a capo at the 5th fret of your guitar (tuned in standard.)

Andy
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mpi_50
Lokahi

USA
133 Posts

Posted - 12/02/2008 :  7:01:39 PM  Show Profile  Send mpi_50 a Yahoo! Message
Ok, so I wasn't imagining anything. Thanks I had good success building arepetoire of songs in c kilauea, and I'm fighting the depression of starting all over again in an unknown territory.
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RJS
Ha`aha`a

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Posted - 12/02/2008 :  9:02:54 PM  Show Profile
It is ok to play in the C Kilauea, even if it isn't a common tuning. You just have to be a bit more careful on the basses.

Sonny Chillingworth often said that it was better to learn one tuning very very well rather than a bunch of tunings learned poorly. Of course, he was talking about Taro Patch. That was, btw, the first tuning Keola learned, too.
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mpi_50
Lokahi

USA
133 Posts

Posted - 12/03/2008 :  7:51:26 PM  Show Profile  Send mpi_50 a Yahoo! Message
I should have gone with my gut instinct, that was my first choice, auwe!
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mpi_50
Lokahi

USA
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Posted - 12/03/2008 :  7:53:48 PM  Show Profile  Send mpi_50 a Yahoo! Message
RJS, I'm in Brentwood, No.Cal.; you said be careful on the basses, could you expand on that please.
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