My way into Hawaiian music was guided hugely by Dancing Cat and George Winston. As a result I was rather late in discovering artists like Peter Moon, Sunday Manoa, and many others. When Uncle Raymond Kane said he was the composer of "Pua Sadinia" I accepted it and worked diligently at learning his arrangement.
Since then I've learned that the composer was David Nape and that Uncle Ray's melody is an interpretation, a close approximation with liberties. Heck, I even discovered a George Winston piano arrangement! So I've started to work out an arrangement that stays a bit closer to the original melody. In the meantime I shot a clip based on Uncle Ray's version:
It looks like The Guitar Workshop is gone, the URL is up for sale, but I was lucky enough to snag a copy of their Ray Kane instructional video and that's my main source for learning this arrangement. I think a lot of the material on that DVD is up on YouTube now.
Fran
E ho`okani pila kakou ma Kaleponi Slack Key on YouTube
Nice Fran! Hard to think of anyone who could milk every drop of sweetness and then some out of a simple tune better than Uncle Ray. Didn't realize TGW was goa, they had some good Slack Key, Ukulele instruction DVDs.
"Pua Sadinia" like Uncle Ray
Posted - 03/11/2023 : 06:58:35 AM
