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Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, which has been used for centuries, so that strumming across the open strings will then sound a ...
A FuniChar D-616 guitar with a Drop D tuning. It has an unusual additional fretboard that extends onto the headstock. Most guitarists obtain a Drop D tuning by detuning the low E string a tone down. This article contains a list of guitar tunings that supplements the article guitar tunings. In particular, this list contains more examples of open ...
Guitar and bass tab is used in pop, rock, folk, and country music lead sheets, fake books, and songbooks, and it also appears in instructional books and websites. Tab may be given as the only notation (as with chord tab in songbooks that only include lyrics and chords), or, as with guitar solo transcriptions, tab and standard notation may be ...
Slack-key guitar is a fingerpicked style that originated in Hawaii. The English term is a translation of the Hawaiian kī hō‘alu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key". Slack key is nearly always played in open or altered tunings—the most common tuning is G-major (D–G–D–G–B–D), called "taropatch", though there is a family of ...
A keytar is a keyboard or synthesizer hung around the neck and shoulders, ... Guess Musical Instruments "Schizotron", a product which combined keyboard and guitar/bass
The implementation of chords using particular tunings is a defining part of the literature on guitar chords, which is omitted in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments. For example, in the guitar (like other stringed instruments but unlike the piano ), open-string notes are not fretted and so require less hand-motion.
George Kahumoku Jr. is a Grammy Award-winning Hawaiian musician specializing in slack-key guitar. Born in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, he was labeled as "Hawaii's Renaissance Man" by Nona Beamer because of his far reaching talents: farmer, author, musician and composer, sculptor and artist, and Hawaiian cultural practitioner, particularly as it relates to the land or 'aina.
Raymond Kaleoalohapoinaʻoleohelemanu [a] Kāne [1] (/ ˈ k ɑː n eɪ /, Hawaiian:; October 2, 1925 – February 27, 2008), [2] was one of Hawaii's acknowledged masters of the slack-key guitar. Born in Koloa , Kauaʻi , he grew up in Nanakuli on Oʻahu 's Waiʻanae Coast where his stepfather worked as a fisherman.