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PearlCityBoy
Lokahi
USA
432 Posts |
 Posted - 11/25/2009 : 2:21:06 PM
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Originally posted by guitarded
...you own one of these...
Ed,
Eh, what dat book? No hardcore Hawaiian music lover has a Mele Aloha book that looks that nice. Pages are dog-earred/sticky noted/paper clipped, filled with penciled in notes for playing in different keys or how to hold a cool chord someone showed you or "play 1st verse twice, then next couple of verses once, skip verses 5 & 6, and finish with two ha'ina's," stained with kanikapila food, tattered and falling out of the binding (we still get the junk original metal spiral binding version and will never ever replace it).
Then we look at the smart buggah across from you (Bruddah Sil) and admire how he took all the pages out and put them in the Costco plastic sheet protectors (ass why hard!) .
Aloha,
Doug |
Edited by - PearlCityBoy on 11/25/2009 2:26:21 PM |
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kihoalukid
Lokahi
USA
290 Posts |
Posted - 11/25/2009 : 3:12:47 PM
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"You have an instrument in every room of a 4 bdrm house. No foget da batrooms too"
And none of them have been in standard tuning since they left the geetar shop! |
Lee |
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rendesvous1840
Ha`aha`a
USA
1055 Posts |
Posted - 11/25/2009 : 7:31:09 PM
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You work at playing U`lili E - on clawhammer banjo.
You never took a second language in school, 'cause the teacher said you couldn't talk good english, but you try to learn Hawaiian from your He Mele Aloha songbook. With all the spring clothspins holding the extra songs they forgot to put when they wrote it.
You find yourself forgetting the words to songs you've been singing since 1966, because all you play now is Hawaiian mele.
Unko Paul |
"A master banjo player isn't the person who can pick the most notes.It's the person who can touch the most hearts." Patrick Costello |
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
2174 Posts |
Posted - 12/03/2009 : 09:04:39 AM
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| You stop in at a local music store and slack the strings on a guitar, play a few tunes and leave, just because. |
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markwitz
`Olu`olu
USA
841 Posts |
Posted - 12/03/2009 : 11:41:41 AM
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Originally posted by thumbstruck
You stop in at a local music store and slack the strings on a guitar, play a few tunes and leave, just because.
LOL, very insidious....I love it. |
"The music of the Hawaiians, the most fascinating in the world, is still in my ears and
haunts me sleeping and waking."
Mark Twain |
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Sarah
`Olu`olu
571 Posts |
Posted - 12/04/2009 : 4:41:07 PM
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Originally posted by kihoalukid
"You have an instrument in every room of a 4 bdrm house. No foget da batrooms too"
And none of them have been in standard tuning since they left the geetar shop!
Which is no problem - cuz you don't know how to play a thing in standard tuning, anyway!
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Pua Kai
Ha`aha`a
USA
1007 Posts |
Posted - 12/09/2009 : 04:37:13 AM
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slkho
`Olu`olu
740 Posts |
Posted - 12/09/2009 : 1:51:38 PM
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I like Markwitz thread..LOL..I've done that.
You might be a Hawaiian Music Nut if:
1.If you play Slack Key to your dog
2.Play your travel guitar while sitting on the toilet, (hey!!...don't judge)
3.You put your 2-acoustic, 2-electric 6-strings, and your 2-12-strings in circle, get a swivel chair, sit in the middle and rotate from guitar to the next, just for the different tunings.
4.You patiently wait for Guitar Hero VII in the hopes they'll offer Punahele, or Keiki Slack Key on it, (I can dream can't I?)
5.Play so much nahe-nahe...you put yourself to sleep!!!
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 12/09/2009 : 2:22:21 PM
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Originally posted by slkho
2.Play your travel guitar while sitting on the toilet, (hey!!...don't judge)
I'm not going to be asking to borrow that one any time soon! |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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