Chords for Learn Hula Blues (Open G) slack key acoustic guitar lesson Preview

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_ _ [Bb] Hey guys, today I am at Hilo Guitars in beautiful downtown Hilo, pretty close to the ocean,
pretty close to the mountains, and having a great time hanging out in Hilo and meeting
some really neat people, including folks here at Hilo Guitars, Ken and Brian, and some other
just [C] cool folks here yesterday giving guitar lessons, Fletcher and [Ab] some students and things
like that.
So I wanted to take a little bit of time today and go over [Bb] a really common
slack key tuning and then a song for everybody to start working on.
We're going to take a
look at a tune called Hula Blues, which is played lots and lots of different ways.
My
daughters have danced hula to this many times and we're going to do a kind of bouncy ragtime
version of it today.
This is a song written in the, I think in the 20s, goes way back,
maybe 30s or 40s, but in kind of the Tin Pan Alley era of _ Hawaiian music.
And first I want
to talk a little bit about the tuning.
We're in what's called a carapace tuning, which
is an open G tuning.
Now we've used open G for other songs.
We've looked at Rolling Stones
tunes in open G, it's a common blues tuning, but it's also the most common slack key tuning.
Now I'm going to look at some other songs later in C wahine, sometimes called Keola's
in C.
We'll look at one of my songs, Papa's Guitar in C, and a few others.
But today we're
going to be looking mostly at Tarot Patch and open G tuning, where we only have to retune
three strings.
The two E strings go [D] down to D, so we've got a D on the sixth string and
a D on the first string.
And then the B string stays the same, [Gm] the G string stays the same,
and the E string stays the same, because those are all notes that are part of [Bb] the G chord.
So what we're trying to do is make sure [C] that all six strings are tuned to one of the three
notes of a G chord.
Now of course the three [F] notes that make up the G chord are G, B, and
[Bb] D. _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ This is going to open with a little pickup that comes in on the and of beat one.
One
and [Bb] two and three, four, leading into our first little melody.
So it's also done in
swing time.
_ Don't forget we've talked before about swing time, where the eighth notes are
not equal.
_ _ _ Well, we found one.
A little mini-toctel, metronome, flat.
These used to only come in
red, but they're really cool.
I remember all my classical guitar playing buddies used to
love these things, kept them close to them, always kept them in their guitar case.
So
we'll give this a try at whatever speed that is.
It's really hard to read these things.
It's not quite the [C] same as electronic growth.
_ But that seems like a good speed.
[Bb] One, two,
three, four, one. _ _ _
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