hfaye1
Verified buyer
07/24/26
Excellent!
Wonderful course. Definitely requires some familiarity with guitar, but he makes it easy if you practice the exercises. Great sense of humor too, it’s just a lovely course.
Learn to Play Hawaiian Slack Key
Hawaiian slack key is a beautiful style of guitar that originated in Hawaii. By blending relaxing melodies with intricate fingerstyle playing, this traditional genre of music is sure to please.
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About this course
Hawaiian slack key is a beautiful style of guitar that originated in Hawaii. By blending relaxing melodies with intricate fingerstyle playing, this traditional genre of music is sure to please.
What you'll learn
- Read basic tablature notation
- Recognizing the connection between slack key and country blues styles
- Appreciating the cultural traditions and etiquette around learning Hawaiian music
- Understanding the basic requirements to start learning slack key (guitar and fingers)
- Develop basic fingerstyle technique with thumb playing bass and fingers playing melody
Release date: 05/16/2012 • 17h 53m runtime
Sample lessons
Basic Slack Key
Lesson Introduction
Basic Slack Key
Slack Key Tuning
Basic Slack Key
Taropatch Tuning
Basic Slack Key
Time to Play
What's included
171 lessons • 60 charts
Intro to Slack Key
Mark Nelson introduces Hawaiian slack key guitar and welcomes you to his lesson series.
Basic Slack Key
Mark delves into the world of slack key guitar. He discusses basic concepts such as open tunings and chords.
Basic Slack Key
Mark delves into the world of slack key guitar. He discusses basic concepts such as open tunings and chords.
Basic Slack Key
Mark delves into the world of slack key guitar. He discusses basic concepts such as open tunings and chords.
Basic Slack Key
Mark delves into the world of slack key guitar. He discusses basic concepts such as open tunings and chords.
Basic Slack Key
Mark delves into the world of slack key guitar. He discusses basic concepts such as open tunings and chords.
Bradda John
In this lesson, Mark teaches a slack key arrangement of the classic song "Brother John."
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Reviews
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chenevans
Verified buyer
04/30/26
One of the best deals on TrueFire
This is an excellent deal. For less than a price of a latte you get video lessons in Slack Key from a player recognized by some of the greats. And he includes written notation for those who would like to have it. I’ve only completed a few of the lessons so far and it’s been decently paced. These days the streaming format is more convenient than DVDs for most. Once this is completed we should be able to comfortably move onto other lessons.
Candreat
Verified buyer
06/09/25
Extremely well organized and presented. If you just put in your time, you can't go wrong
sagejoy
Verified buyer
06/07/25
Hawaiian Slack Key Mark Nelson
What a delightful course! Casual and low key, not taking himself too seriously and imparting so many tips and styles. I thoroughly enjoyed every lesson. It was such a surprise that you had this course. Sure to be a winner for anyone interested in Hawaiian Slack Key. What would be nice to have an update of playing this style with your own songs.
Zaxan
Verified buyer
01/18/25
Another Great Purchase
Huge offering of great tunes. Well taught by a pleasant teacher who learned from the greats of this genre. Gives you the feeling you're being invited into an exclusive group, and until not that long ago, that would be so if you were allowed to learn this beautiful style/genre. Very generous.
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