Hawaiian slack key: Pauoa Ka Liko Ka Lehua

This is my third arrangement in Hawaiian slack key tuning. It was inspired by a rendition of Pauoa Ka Liko Ka Lehua as sung by Melveen Leed (with the best of slack key) in a recording from 1979.
The guitar is an Alvarez AC-90C classical tuned to "Leonards C" (CGDGBE). Strings are D' Addario hard tension.
The video was taken with a Panasonic PV-GS400 (low def) and the audio is from two external Naiant omi mics plugged into the cam. Video editing was done with Pinacle. The audio was extracted an edited with Cool Edit Pro.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Hawaiian
• slack
• key
• guitar
• acoustic

[slackkeybob]

Thanks so much Shuji. Good to hear form you. 

[wjc1952]

Oh this is way nice, Bob. I am doing my hula exercises to it, so you got the right rhythm for hula!!!! Your sound is so very sweet and mellow.

Me ke aloha,

Wanda

[slackkeybob]

@wjc1952 : Thanks Wanda. Hey, that would make it a mighty short exercise. Reminds me of something I would do. LOL

[sirduke58]

Awesome rendition Bob. Loved your take on this one, you certainly made it your own while still retaining the traditional sound of ki ho'alu. Nice job brah maikai no!!!!

[slackkeybob]

@sirduke58 : This one ended up with a lot of strumming in it so it is definitely not typical. I couldn't seem to avoid implying Ukulele so I just went with it. Thanks for the positive comments Bruddah Duke.

[OuelletteGTR]

This was beautiful!!! I have to say, this was one of the nicest songs to listen to during my morning coffee. Scott

[slowhandeagle]

So beautiful, Bob-san. I like your arrangement. Everytime I listen to your Slack Key rendition, I found that you have your own lovely style. Thanks for sharing. Shuji