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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Fran Guidry[/i] [br]Sonny Chillingworth brought the clave of Latin music into slack key with his Spanish bass, featured in a number of his songs. "Moe Uhane" might be the one known by most people, but it also featured in "Malasadas" and "Slack Key #2" and others. I've learned several of his songs and occasionally adapted this pattern for other songs. When I decided to do a new clip of "Isa Lei" I set out to use the Spanish bass and it added quite a bit of time to the process of developing and learning the arrangement, but now I can't seem to get back to the straight bass pattern (grin). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klyPnrKdGRw I also learned along the way that "Isa Lei" is a borrowed melody, originally composed as a tribute to a Tongan princess then brought to Fiji where it was used for the famous farewell song we now know. The Tongan song is called "Si`i Lile Viola Lose Hina" and you can find both songs in several versions on YouTube. Fran [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.