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Slack-key guitar, the Glossary

Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōalu, which means "loosen the key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii.^[1]

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"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor.

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Alice Nāmakelua

"Auntie" Alice Kuʻuleialohapoʻinaʻole Kanakaoluna Nāmakelua (1892–1987) was a Hawaiian composer and performer.

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Alternate bass

In music, alternate bass is a performance technique on many instruments where the bass alternates between two notes, most often the root and the fifth of a triad or chord.

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Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), also known as "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans.

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Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks.

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Cyril Pahinui

Cyril Pahinui (April 21, 1950 – November 17, 2018) was a slack-key guitarist and singer of Hawaiian music.

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Damping (music)

Damping is a technique in music for altering the sound of a musical instrument by reducing oscillations or vibrations.

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Dancing Cat Records

Dancing Cat Records is a record label founded in 1983 by pianist George Winston to publish both his music and music in the Hawaiian slack-key guitar style.

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Daniel Ho

Daniel Ho (born March 5, 1968) is an American musician, composer and producer specializing in innovative approaches to Slack-key guitar, ukulele, and Hawaiian music.

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Dennis Kamakahi

Dennis David Kahekilimamaoikalanikeha Kamakahi (March 31, 1953 – April 28, 2014) was a Hawaiian slack key guitarist, recording artist, music composer, and Christian minister.

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Fingerstyle guitar

Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar or bass guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick"). Slack-key guitar and Fingerstyle guitar are guitar performance techniques.

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Fred Punahoa

Fred Punahoa Konanui (also spelled "Punahou") (April 25, 1919 - March 10, 1985) was a Hawaiian musician and slack key guitar player from Kalapana, Hawaii.

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Gabby Pahinui

Philip Kunia Pahinui (April 22, 1921 – October 13, 1980), known as Gabby Pahinui, was a slack-key guitarist and singer of Hawaiian music.

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George Kahumoku Jr.

George Kahumoku Jr. is a Grammy Award-winning Hawaiian musician specializing in slack-key guitar.

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George Winston

George Otis Winston III (February 11, 1949 – June 4, 2023) was an American pianist performing contemporary instrumental music.

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Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album was an honor presented to recording artists from 2005 to 2011 for quality Hawaiian music albums.

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Guitar and Lute Workshop

The Guitar and Lute Workshop (GLW) was a manufacturer of custom guitars, ukuleles, and period stringed instruments based in Honolulu, Hawaii between 1970 and 1976.

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Hammer-on

A hammer-on is a playing technique performed on a stringed instrument (especially on a fretted string instrument, such as a guitar) by sharply bringing a fretting-hand finger down on to the fingerboard behind a fret, causing a note to sound. Slack-key guitar and hammer-on are guitar performance techniques.

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Harmonic

In physics, acoustics, and telecommunications, a harmonic is a sinusoidal wave with a frequency that is a positive integer multiple of the fundamental frequency of a periodic signal. Slack-key guitar and harmonic are guitar performance techniques.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Hawaiian Renaissance

The Hawaiian Renaissance (also called the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance) was the Hawaiian resurgence of a distinct cultural identity that draws upon traditional Kānaka Maoli culture, with a significant divergence from the tourism-based culture which Hawaiʻi was previously known for worldwide (along with the rest of Polynesia).

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Hula

Hula is a Hawaiian dance form expressing chant (oli) or song (''mele'').

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Jeff Peterson (guitarist)

Jeff Peterson is an American slack key guitar player from Maui, Hawaii.

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Jim West (guitarist)

James West (born December 18, 1953), also known as Kimo, is a Canadian guitarist best known for working with "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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John Keawe

John Keawe is a Hawaiian musician and slack key guitar player from Hawi in the North Kohala district of the Big Island of Hawaii.

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Kalākaua

Kalākaua (David Laʻamea Kamanakapuʻu Māhinulani Nālaʻiaʻehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua; November 16, 1836 – January 20, 1891), sometimes called The Merrie Monarch, was the last king and penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, reigning from February 12, 1874, until his death in 1891.

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Kealii Blaisdell

Keali'i Blaisdell is an American musician whose popularity has drawn thousands of fans to his appearances.

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Keola Beamer

Keola Beamer (born Keolamaikalani Breckenridge Beamer February 18, 1951) is a Hawaiian slack-key guitar player, best known as the composer of "Honolulu City Lights" and an innovative musician who fused Hawaiian roots and contemporary music.

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Ledward Kaapana

Ledward Kaapana (born August 25, 1948) is a Hawaiian musician, best known for playing in the slack key guitar style.

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Leland Isaacs Sr.

Leland "Atta" Isaacs Sr. (1929–1983) was an American, Hawaiian slack-key composer, known for his C major tuning ("Atta's C," C-G-E-G-C-E), and for his work with Gabby Pahinui.

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Leonard Kwan

Leonard Keala Kwan Sr (1931–2000) was one of the most influential Hawaiian slack-key guitarists to emerge in the period immediately preceding the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance of the 1970s.

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Makana (musician)

Makana (who is so named as it is the Hawaiian word meaning “the gift”), born Matthew Swalinkavich, is a slack-key guitar player, singer, and composer.

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Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar

Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar is an album released in 2010.

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Mauna Loa

Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.

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Melody

A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Music of Hawaii

The music of Hawaii includes an array of traditional and popular styles, ranging from native Hawaiian folk music to modern rock and hip hop.

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Open C tuning

Open C tuning is an open tuning for guitar.

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Open D tuning

Open D tuning is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar.

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Ostinato

In music, an ostinato (derived from the Italian word for stubborn, compare English obstinate) is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch.

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Owana Salazar

Owana Kaʻōhelelani Mahealani-Rose Salazar (born October 30, 1953) is an American musician and activist.

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Ozzie Kotani

Ozzie Kotani is a slack-key guitar player and a well-respected teacher, arranger, solo performer and accompanist.

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Patrick Landeza

Patrick Landeza is a contemporary Hawaiian slack key guitarist.

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Patrick Simmons

Patrick Simmons (born October 19, 1948) is an American musician best known as a founding member of the rock band The Doobie Brothers, with whom he was inducted as into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.

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Peter Moon (musician)

Peter Moon (August 25, 1944 – February 17, 2018) was an American ukulele and slack-key guitar player.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Puerto Rico

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Pull-off

A pull-off is a stringed instrument playing and articulation technique performed by plucking or "pulling" the finger that is grasping the sounding part of a string off the fingerboard of either a fretted or unfretted instrument. Slack-key guitar and pull-off are guitar performance techniques.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack-key_guitar

Also known as Hawaiian slack-key, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, Ki ho'alu, Ki ho`alu, Ki hoalu, Kihoalu, Le Igi, Slack key, Slack key guitar, Slack string guitar, Slack tuning, Slack-key.

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Hawaiian musical instruments

Slack-key guitar tunings

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