Hawaiian Slack Key: A Lifetime of Study

Kapahua LLC is proud to present a comprehensive series of texts on Hawaiian slack key guitar written by Peter Medeiros. Assembling this series on slack key guitar and Hawaiian music has literally taken most of Peter's lifetime and much of the information he shares with you has not been made available to the general public until now.

Kapahua LLC is a small music publishing company located in Kaneohe, Hawaii specializing in Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar.  Our mission is to perpetuate the art of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar.  Currently we are in the process of publishing a series of textbooks on Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar to be used for reference and instruction. The first text Hawaiian Slack Key: A Lifetime Study Volume One Methodology is now available and the second text in this series which is a general anthology on slack key will be available early next year
Hawaiian Slack Key:
A Lifetime of Study
Volume One Methodology
by Peter Medeiros 

This is the first in a series of textbooks on traditional Hawaiian slack key by Peter to be released. This long anticipated textbook is a comprehensive  study and analysis of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar from a traditional artist's point of view. Peter is not just a traditional artist, but he is also an Emmy Award nominated composer and a longtime  teacher of slack key at the University of Hawaii in Manoa.

The choice and large number of traditional songs in addition to accurate transcriptions of Hawaiian slack key are without precedent. These songs provide not only an opportunity for serious musical study, but also an opportunity to play and have fun with slack key as Hawaiians have been doing for nearly two hundred years.

Peter’s approach to teaching slack key follows the concepts of `Ike Hawai`i by cultivating, nurturing, practicing and perpetuating the art form in a Hawaiian way. As a resource text and  methodology, this book unveils slack key in clear and concise language. There are no vague or obscure terms used nor are there any secrets withheld as to learning slack key guitar technique.

What is unique about “Hawaiian Slack Key: A Lifetime of Study - Volume One Methodology" is that the concepts and techniques that slack key artists have used through the years are presented within the context of the Hawaiian music tradition.  All of the songs presented here are in traditional Hawaiian slack key tunings passed down to Peter by his father, Albert P. Medeiros Sr., Peter Moon Sr., Gabby Pahinui and Sonny Chillingworth.

Copyright 2009 by Peter J.K. Medeiros.  Published by Kapahua LLC, Kaneohe, Hawaii. Eleven chapters with bibliography and index; illustrated; length 306 pages; dimensions 8.5" x 11" x .75"; weight 2.6 Lbs. 
Cost $39.00