It's Sonny Chillingworth's Moe 'Uhane, a tune that John Aveiro (T-patch "javeiro") first played in our living room over a year ago. I immediately fell in love with it and knew I had to learn it. Thanks to John's encouragement and Mark Hanson's excellent transcription I've given it a run. Of course the sweet character of Sonny's recording may always elude this haole kid but here's my first shot at it.
Mahalo for listening.
Terry
Olympia, WA Forever a haumana
Edited by - TerryLiberty on 08/01/2013 04:19:27 AM
Sirduke responded to my YouTube on YouTube. In part he wrote:
quote:"...The arpeggio sequence starting at 0:56 is pretty impressive. That part is actually played with a Gabby Pahinui technique that Ozzie refers to as "Brush stops" Much easier to execute than the arpeggios. I use this technique a lot in my "Slack Key Hula" video. At 1:20. 1:31 &1:56 are similar "Brush stops" to what you arpeggiate in "Moe 'Uhane" I also do a "Brush stop" for every "resolve" in Slack Key Hula. Learning to do it Gabby's easier way would make it more accessible..."
Duke: Thanks for taking the time to watch. I really want to do justice to Sonny's tune. It's such a beauty. Interesting you should mention the arpeggio. Mark's transcription notates it the way Sonny plays it - using Gabby's "brush stop". What's interesting is that I must have given that technique a thousand tries and never got it to feel right. After that I tried an arpeggio from treble toward bass (AMIP) and found that harder. After over a month of fooling with one measure of music I finally fell back on what is the easiest for me and that's the PIMA arp. The only problem is that it states the notes in reverse order. Ah well. Funny how some folks' easy is other folks' hard.
I listened to your Slack Key Hula http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN5QKYeK3bE and loved it. I can hear the brush stops at the points you mention. They flow so well in the tune. That was the first You Tube of yours I'd heard over a year ago. I loved the "Take 1" at the beginning. The "Take 2" on Moe 'Uhane is inspired by it.
Mahalo for your kind words.
Terry
Olympia, WA Forever a haumana
Edited by - TerryLiberty on 08/01/2013 07:24:41 AM
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