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67kawika67
Aloha
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 Posted - 01/30/2004 : 1:32:26 PM
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HEy all I want to get a poll of all of you player's favorite tunings and favorite instruction books. I also want to know your favorite song and what tuning its played in. thanks.
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gypsysoul
Aloha
USA
11 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 01:43:06 AM
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Hey Jeremy, great questions. The replies should be interesting.
OK, since you asked, I can't resist putting in my 2 cents worth:
Name: Doug
City: Mountain View, CA (not Big Island kine)
Favorite Tuning: Salomila style - like C Mauna Loa but with two bottom strings tuned 5th and 4th higher so it's GCEGAE. Also I love Leonard's C and C Mauna Loa. Why? You can play tons of stuff in G major but the type of sound you can get is limited. So I like to experiment a lot. I play, sort of, in 6 different tunings right now. Knew a couple others a few years back but I lost 'em. Not enough time to do it all!
Book: None. Listen, listen, listen, read the CD liners, then jus' press - but I got started with Keola's first video.
Song: Hilo Rag (C Mauna Loa) and Keala's Mele (Leonard's C).
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 02:23:21 AM
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Name: Craig
City: Carlsbad, CA
Tuning: Taro Patch (haven't played much in other tunings yet)
Book: Ozzie...still working my way through
Song: Pua Sadinia and La Paloma (both Taro Patch)...hope to be able to play both someday! |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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RJS
Ha`aha`a
1635 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 12:26:26 PM
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Raymond Stovich, San Jose, CA
I play almost exclusively in Taro Patch - Couple of reasons: 1) 'cause Ozzie once told me that Sonny told him that anyone could play a hundred songs in a hundred different tunings, but only a master could play any song in just one tuning. 2)While Taro Patch does have limits, I still haven't come near exhausting its possibilities. 3) I find that once I accept the limitations, it forces me to be more creative, learning much more about voicing and arranging.
Favorite song? I only have favorite flavors of the day when it comes to music. There's so much out there that I have trouble narrowing this down. If I'm honest about it, something like this: Most favorite "songs" over long periods of time: Hayden's Cello Concerto in C Maj; Brahm's 4th Symphony; Turandot. Overall slack key song I come back to the most: E Ku'u Morning Dew by Keola, in a C Tuning; Current favorite song: Chuva, by Maurizia (a fadista) written in Bb, I believe. Song I am most enjoying to play these last few days: Soft Green Seas by Anderson, my arangement in, what else?, Taro Patch.
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RJS
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 02/01/2004 : 2:09:48 PM
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Oh yeah, I forgot to include above that Taro Patch is also so very versatile - not only Hawaiian & slack key, but a lot of Latin, (including not only Mex but also Brazilian, Paraguayan, Venezuelan, Argentinian, and Cuban) African, fado, Standards and pop can be done quite convincingly in Taro Patch, despite the fact that you really only have 3 strings (at different octaves)
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Pupule
USA
4551 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 4:24:51 PM
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I moved this thread to the "General" topic, because I did not see good reason for it to remain in the "Kanikapila" topic. Also see the below post which I think 67kawika67 meant to post under this thread. -Admin
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On 02/01/2004 : 03:07:21, 67kawika67 posted:
hey thank you for the posts. I just got offwork and was surprised to see that there are posts. This topic should be usefull to find out the popular ones and why. Its also great to get song ideas for future learning. Thanks everyone ITS SUPER BOWL tomorrow!!!! PATRIOTS>....
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Chango
Aloha
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 4:44:30 PM
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Name: Zach
City: College Station, TX
Tuning: Wish i knew :(
Book: The Internet
Song: Mele Kalikimaka! |
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Chango
Aloha
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 5:09:35 PM
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oh i forgot i have a tuning question...
i can tune my strings relative to eachother, but i know they're still way off from what they should be. does anyone know of a site that has sound of what each string should sound like for a regular tuning? |
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RJS
Ha`aha`a
1635 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 5:25:33 PM
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For about $45 you can get an Intellitouch tuner at a local Guitar Center -- clips onto the headstock, hasn't hurt my guitars in the 2 years or so I've used it -- tell you exactly what pitch your string is on.
Raymond
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Chango
Aloha
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 5:27:19 PM
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| yeah i'm kinda looking for a free resource. i'm a dirt poor college student working in an aquarium trying to make rent :) |
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67kawika67
Aloha
19 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 5:32:57 PM
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| HEY its SUPERBOWL and IM off to the bars. I got sum $ on the patriots so cheer them on. but not to turn this into a football chat. THanks for the continuing posts. Great info. DRINK UP EVERYONE!!!!!! cause the patriots are going to win!!!. |
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Chango
Aloha
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 6:23:18 PM
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| oh yeah superbowl! hello whiskey. goodbye homework. |
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Mark
Ha`aha`a
USA
1628 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 6:35:25 PM
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Hey Chango --
I just did a Google search for "Online Guitar Tuner" and came up with 85,000 replies. And I'm an old guy --- shouldn't be too hard for a dirt poor college student to find something useful. Tons of freeware and shareware resources, too.
Here's the first one I looked at: http://www.dreadscott.com/Guitar.html
Don't know if it still works, but when I was a dirt poor college student in LA my band and I would tune to the dial tone -- which was pretty dang close to a Bb (5th string, first fret in standard.) Or pick up a tuning fork -- they are real cheap. Heck, you can find a digital tuner for under $10 these days. Or make friends with an accordian player... lord knows they need all the friends they can get.
Cheers,
Mark
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Chango
Aloha
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 7:05:19 PM
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| hahaha awesome! |
one dirty haole |
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 7:46:05 PM
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Chango...try this:
http://www.bigrockeng.com/apgt.html
Freeware tuner app for Windows. If you have a Mac let me know. |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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Chango
Aloha
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 10:40:21 PM
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| awesomesauce. is regular tuning for an uke E or what? |
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