Chords for Slack Key: 10 Bar Progression ( Taro Patch or Open G tuning ) Ki Ho'alu

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Hey Aloha, this is Harry from Kailua.
Let's work some more with slack key.
I'm going to
give you the framework of which you can practice all your licks with.
Okay, so we're in open
G tuning.
_ So G in standard tuning used to be here, but now it's here because on these
strings it got tuned down too.
So this sounds just like the original G, but now we have
this G, this G, this G, because the whole thing is G.
So for today we're just going
to use these five strings.
For the D7 chord, it used to be here.
This string gets affected
because it was tuned down too, so I'm going to move it up two to make it sound [D] exactly
the same.
But let's make it easier today.
If I remove the baby finger, this is already
tuned to the letter D.
So we get to use the same four, but I'm going to add this sixth
string.
So for today we're going to use everything except the fifth string.
_ Now _ let's do a close
up and then I'll give you the framework.
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_ _ [Db] Okay, that's an example of what we're trying to
get to with our framework that I'm going to show you today.
This is to apply all the licks
that I've shown you earlier and some more, I'll add some more. _
This is a very Hawaiian
chord progression.
_ [G]
It's got ten measures.
So look on the screen and you're going to
notice there's four measures of G.
It's one, two, _ three, _ four, then two measures [D] of D7,
_ and then I'll call this vamp number [G] one and [D] vamp number two.
_ [G] And it starts all over again.
_ So this is a rhythm that actually comes from [D] the rhythm of the Hawaiian chants. _
Because
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
before string instruments arrived to Hawaii, _ _ [N]
the Hawaiians chanted.
So here's an example. _
There's a chant called Hīlāwe, which became a famous slack key song in the early days.
_ [Fm] It would be just, without a string instrument, it would be [Abm] with a percussion. _ _
_ [E] And it was a chant song.
[N] Like, Gō maka kai ken aia, _ Hīlāwe, you know.
But as the missionaries came and brought over _ church hymns
for the Hawaiians to sing, and also as different immigrants arrived to Hawaii, _ [Gm] Hawaiians began to
sing along with string instruments.
So the early Hawaiian slack key songs are basically chants
turned into songs.
So here's an example.
I'll just sing the words of Hīlāwe to this chord progression.
[D] So it would be like, _ [G] _
[Dm] I just start with the vamp [G] section.
_ _ Gō maka kai ken aia, _ [D] Hīlāwe, _ kapapalo hi mai au [G] _ [D] maukewe.
_ _ [G] _ So this isn't the only chord progression in [Fm] early slack key, but this is a very [G] common one.
So around this framework, I'm going to allow you to work your different things.
So the G section, things that I had shown you before, _ _ _ _ _ that would be the four measures.
[D] Then you can do things in a D7.
_ And then here's the first Hawaiian vamp.
And here's the second [G] Hawaiian vamp.
_ _ _ So now you have a framework of how you want to apply this.
So for Hawaiian slack key, we got the, this is just what you want to memorize.
Four Gs _ [D] and two D7s, and D7 [G] to G, [D] and D7 [G] to G.
[Ab] But here's a side note.
If you want to go back and maybe watch the Alphabet of Music,
and maybe the Balls of Information where I taught how to multitask,
you can use the same ideas in this tuning.
So if [G]
this is tuned to a G chord, G, [E] G sharp, this is [A] A.
_ So you can use this for your blues.
If this is an A chord on the second fret,
then you've got A, B, C, C sharp, D.
So [D] D would be now on the seventh fret, and [Eb] E would be [E] on the ninth fret.
_ So you can practice like this [N] and practice blues.
So here's your, _ for blues you got 12 [A] bars.
So you got A, two, three, four, A, two, three, four.
You can fancy up two, three, four.
_ Then two [D] measures of D, two, [Dm] three, four, D, _ _ [A] _
_ _ four.
A, two, [E] three, four, E.
_ _ [D] D, two, [Dm] three, [A] four, A, two, three, [E] four, E.
_ [A] _
Okay, so you can play [N] blues even in this tuning.
Now the scale that I used earlier in the early videos,
the A minor pentatonic scale in standard tuning would have been here.
_ But these three strings were affected by us tuning two frets lower.
So [Gb] now if you want to play the A minor pentatonic in this tuning, it would be here [A] for [Ab] [D] one, four, [Em] one.
Then these [D] three strings are the [G] same.
And [Am] then this one you have to go.
So you can still [Em] play.
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_ So, _ [N] _ _ _
you know, you can even have more fun if you want to just [A] use the _ different, let's change the 12 bar blues to the key of G.
So [G] A, A flat, G.
So G will be open.
Then the D would be now C, and the E would be D.
And you can play with a slide and go, okay, G, which is 12 fret.
_ [C] So you got four measures of G.
One, two, [D] three, four, G, two, [G] three, four, G, two, three, four, G.
You got [C]
C, two, three, four, C, _ [G] four, G, two, three, four, G, two, three, four, [D] G, two, [C] three, four, G.
[G] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ So this G tuning _ is used by, say, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones and blues,
because he learned it probably from, inspired from watching blues players like Muddy Waters. _
_ So slack key is not the tuning.
It's the method.
You know, you can make it sound bluesy, [Gm] _ [B] or [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ you can make [D] it sound Hawaiian.
_ _ _ [C] _ [D] So it's not _ what [G] tuning, it's how you play the tuning to make it sound Hawaiian.
So just have fun.
[Ab] Just more things to think about. _ _ _ _ _
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