Akaka Falls - Hawaiian Lap Slide Blues - Weissenborn instrumental

A Hawaiian classic in open G tuning. This version is based on a Sam Ku West recording. I leaned it from a dvd by Steve Dawson.

I'm playing a Tony Francis weissenborn style 4
http://tonyfrancisinstruments.blogspot.com/

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Category:

Music

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• weissenborn
• lap
• steel
• acoustic
• guitar
• blues
• hawaiian
• slide
• sam
• ku
• west
• steve
• dawson

[1SapereAude1]

I've recently started watching some Hawaiian slide videos. I see a lot of them, including this one, playing natural harmonics with a slide. How on earth do you do that? Doesn't make sense to me.

[daddystovepipe]

@1SapereAude1

magic still exists....:-)

google : how to play natural and artificial harmonics on a guitar

[caralhosvosfodam]

This open G as you call it, is DGDGBD, or GBDGBD?

[daddystovepipe]

@caralhosvosfodam

Hawaiian music and blues is usually played in low bass open G (DGDGBD)

High bass open G (GBDGBD) is strictly for bluegrass.

[slidinbob]

Aloha Daddy, great style and feeling, who makes this weissenborn?

[daddystovepipe]

thanks for the compliment Bob. The weiss was made by Tony Francis of New Zealand info at tonyfrancisinstruments dot com

he specialises in making exact Weissenborn copies; this one is a blackwood style 4.

[TheJarv760]

Reminds me of Spongebob, not gunna lie!

[1SapereAude1]

@1SapereAude1

oh, nvm. You can play natural harmonics by using two fingers of your right hand of course. Haven't done it before, so it didn't occur to me.

[1SapereAude1]

@daddystovepipe

I know how to play harmonics. Done it a million times. But natural harmonics WITH A SLIDE I don't get.

[danzinnyman]

sooo good reminds me of cowboy bebop aka awesome tunes man keep up the great work

[2010koisa]

nice good video

[pldileo1]

@TheMatt0789 giusto da un italiano poteva venire un commento così inutile...!!!

[caralhosvosfodam]

@daddystovepipe Ok, sir, thank you, I asked that I'm trying since morning to pull of a similar playing on my guitar in roundneck style, and it doesn't sound quite the same so I thought you could be using high bass open G...

regards.