Customer Reviews

Guitar Playing Hawaiian Style: Ki Ho'Alu an Instructional Method for Slack Key/With Cassette

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This book is a wonderful introduction for anyone wishing to learn to play Hawaiian slack key. The music is in tabulature format and comes with tips for each song. Even a neophyte can be playing this melodic guitar music with just a bit of practice (you didn't think to avoid that did you?).

Those unfamiliar with the genre may not realize what a true master Ozzie Kotani is and that this is the slack key equivalent of having Eric Clapton teach you a few licks.

The only downside is the use of cassette instead of CD which would have made replay much easier.

This book claims to be the first in a three book series and I hope the others will eventually be available.

This is a great book for those who never played a guitar before. Once I got the guitar tuned to slack key I could actually start playing the first song. It is hard to believe that nice music can be made by pressing down on just one string at a time. I hope he comes out with another book with more songs to learn.

After working through all the songs in this book I
now have a set of beautiful and playable guitar pieces. Most are in G tuning and the progression from song to song is excellent. The left hand fingering details are very helpful.
(30+ year fingerstyle guitar player)