Tunings

"A good slack key player isn't measured by how many tunings he knows - it's being able to play almost any song in one tuning that's impressive." - Sonny Chillingworth

Listed below are some known slack key tunings.  Chord charts for Taro Patch, Double Slack and Keola's C are now available -  click the appropriate icon to view/download.  A big mahalo to Mark Nelson for creating the chord charts!

Here are are some common open tunings... (Tuned from lowest to highest)
Standard Tuning	(E-A-D-G-B-E)
G Major Taro Patch	(D-G-D-G-B-D)
G Major 7 Wahine, Double Slack, Namakelua's tuning	(D-G-D-F#-B-D)
G6th	(D-G-D-G-B-E)
F Wahine	(C-F-C-G-C-E)
F Keola	(C-F-C-G-A-F)
"Gabby's F Wahine"	(F-C-E-G-C-E)
D Major 7 Wahine	(D-A-D-F#-A-C#)
D Major	(D-A-D-F#-A-D)
D Wahine	(D-A-D-F#-B-C#)
Dmaj7	(D-A-D-F#-B-D)
Dropped D	(D-A-D-G-B-E)
C Wahine	(C-G-C-E-G-B)
C6th Mauna Loa	(C-G-E-G-A-E)
"Gabby's C Wahine," a.k.a. "Hi'ilawe tuning"	(C-G-E-G-B-E)
C Ni`ihau	(C-G-D-G-A-D)
C Wahine a.k.a. Dropped C, or "Leonard's C"	(C-G-D-G-B-D)
C Wahine, "Keola's C"	(C-G-D-G-B-E)
C Wahine	(C-G-E-G-B-D)
A Mauna Loa	(E-A-E-E-F#-C#)
Bb Mauna Loa	(F-Bb-D-F-G-D)

= view chord chart     = view/download .pdf file