Hawaiian Slack Key: A Lifetime of Study

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.  We are in the process of publishing a series of textbooks on Hawaiian slack key guitar for classroom, individual, and self instruction. The first in the series, Hawaiian Slack Key: A Lifetime of Study Volume 1 Methodology, is now available and the second book is expected to be available next year. For additional information contact peter@slackkeybypetermed.com.
Hawaiian Slack Key:
A Lifetime of Study
Volume 1 Methodology
by Peter Medeiros 

This is the first in a series of textbooks on traditional Hawaiian slack key by Peter Medeiros. This long anticipated book is the culmination of a lifetime of study and analysis of Hawaiian slack key guitar by a traditional Hawaiian artist with formal training in western music.

The selection and large number of traditional Hawaiian slack key songs in accurate transcriptions 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 on the art and a book on methodology, Peter's book unveils and teaches slack key in clear and concise language.  All of the songs presented 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.

Please click on the table of contents link for more information on the content of the book.

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

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