Guitar Playing Hawaiian Style (book/CD)

Mel Bay Publications
Level : Beginning

Written by a master of Hawaiian slack-key guitar, this text teaches the history, tunings, and other techniques found in slack-key guitar music.  Because of the altered tunings in slack-key guitar music, all of the examples and exercises in this text have been written in tab only.
Recordings of nine exercises from the book which demonstrates these techniques (with tunings) are provided on an accompanying CD.

• The History of Slack Key 
• Tunings 
• Ornamentations 
• Improvisation
• Variations of Guitar Playing
• Closing Notes
• Sources
• How to Read the Tablature 
• A Note on Reading Tablature
• The Right & left Hand Technique
• Open and Closed Positions 
• The Alternating Bass
• Slides, Pull-Offs, Add-Ons, Hammers
• Chimes or Harmonics
• Choosing a Picking Style
• Standardize Fingering and Picking 
• Taro Patch Tuning 
• Slack G or Double Slack Tuning 
• Drop C Tuning

• Teaches Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar
• Learn to Play Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar
• Guitar Playing Hawaiian Style
• The Art of Hawaiian Steel Guitar vol.1
• The Art of Hawaiian Steel Guitar vol.2
• Swinging In Hawai (quattro chitarre)
• La chitarra e le culture musicali