Jeff Peterson demonstrates Slack Key Guitar jeffpetersonguitar.com

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  • Опубліковано 7 кві 2010
  • Jeff Peterson shares some of his thoughts on slack key guitar at his family home on Maui.
    He demonstrates some of the common slack key techniques and plays his composition Haleakala. Please visit jeffpetersonguitar.com and jeffpetersonguitar

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  • @slydogmania
    @slydogmania 12 років тому +9

    Just discovered this - I'm in awe of this guy. One man and a guitar, Totally inspiring. Everything a great musician should be, connected to the past and an accomplished master whilst driving this music forward in an original way. I'm fussy and play decent guitar myself but could listen to Jeff play for hours. Only wish I could turn back the clock and try mastering this style. One day this music will catch on big-time. Jeff Peterson, I salute you - aroha from a big fan in New Zealand, Play on man

  • @GuyFrets
    @GuyFrets 7 років тому +10

    Jeff Peterson is as articulate verbally as he is musically and that is saying a great deal. This is a wonderful video. Thanks!!!

  • @KaraboSelaolo
    @KaraboSelaolo 10 років тому +12

    This guy is amazing. Talk about technique and precision . . .

  • @Celewen
    @Celewen 9 років тому +32

    I had always wondered what this style of guitar playing this was called. So glad to finally have a great explanation. What a great sound.

    • @juliusandcrew813
      @juliusandcrew813 7 років тому

      u like him

    • @angelofmusic477
      @angelofmusic477 5 років тому +1

      Glad you found out. It's interesting to know, you can import many picking style from standard tuning guitar to slack key tuning but not the other way around. Claw hammer and some banjo rolls can't harmonised well on standard tuning guitar.

  • @MichaelTanenbaum
    @MichaelTanenbaum 11 років тому

    Beautifully rendered Jeff from beginning to end. Deeply considered and generous in spirit. Mahalo nui loa for sharing this heavenly musical tradition with us.

  • @lawrenceklein1331
    @lawrenceklein1331 6 років тому +6

    Wow! I am blown away! Jeff Peterson has a new fan! I've never heard anything like this before! His attitude, skill, and style are outstanding! Definitely world- class!

  • @chiefhalftown
    @chiefhalftown 12 років тому +4

    WOW! Jeff calls this a demonstartion but it teaches more about the fundamentals of Hawaiian slack key than most other so-called instructional videos. I'll be coming back to this often. Thanks!

  • @rpelleti
    @rpelleti 6 місяців тому

    Thank you. I really love listening to Jeff's performance. I never knew this existed until now. Great video!

  • @JohnDoe-ki6fm
    @JohnDoe-ki6fm 7 років тому +2

    Beautiful! Glad to learn a little more about slack key! That must bring you a lot of joy! ;)

  • @happyweasel422
    @happyweasel422 10 років тому +3

    This is a beautiful style of guitar and I love it. Please do some lessons on slack key pieces! Continue with what your doing! It's great! God bless!

  • @fancyguitarcapos7829
    @fancyguitarcapos7829 12 років тому +1

    What a Fabulous & educational video you uploaded here. Island girl here, now living in San Francisco and just picked up the guitar. This is so beautifully put together! Thank you!

  • @JohnDoe-ki6fm
    @JohnDoe-ki6fm 4 роки тому +1

    I thought I recognized the face from the AMP concert poster. Came here to make sure. You are going to be in my home town doing a concert on March 14th. I hope I will be able to make it. I very much appreciate your laid back, relaxed introduction to Hawai'ian slack key guitar in this video. Beautiful!

  • @maccallumpr
    @maccallumpr 4 роки тому +1

    Jim Kimo West brought me here. Thank you,Jeff. So...beautiful.

  • @datastorageable
    @datastorageable 12 років тому

    One of the very best things I've ever seen on youtube.

  • @MrAoki777
    @MrAoki777 7 років тому +5

    Jeff is a very accomplished Slack-Key player! He seems to have some classical influence also.

  • @cindyjean3208
    @cindyjean3208 3 роки тому +2

    Beautiful beautiful! Love this music... informative video and very enjoyable to watch... thanks for sharing your story!!! You play so passionately 💕

  • @mrkneel5760
    @mrkneel5760 6 років тому +1

    Much love from the Big Island! Thanks for the lesson

  • @davidlopez-white3185
    @davidlopez-white3185 7 років тому +1

    Jeff this is a great video and fantastic playing, thanks!

  • @broad100
    @broad100 12 років тому +1

    I love your style of playing and appreciate you posting this video. I learned a lot!

  • @dweirdkine2009
    @dweirdkine2009 11 років тому +2

    beautiful demonstration.

  • @Coldcasereview
    @Coldcasereview 2 роки тому

    This is so nice, the harmonics sound fantastic. Really enjoyed this video.

  • @relaxbass
    @relaxbass 12 років тому +1

    Thank you! Very informative, beautiful and making me hope for more.

  • @axleblaze123
    @axleblaze123 6 років тому +9

    Greetings from Ireland. Reminds me of the triditional Celtic music style.

  • @Jollynoose
    @Jollynoose 7 років тому +2

    nice video and i love the way you handle that 6 string, i am from Tennessee and play guitar too but have always used the traditional tuning, now i want to explore slack key style

  • @oommggdude
    @oommggdude 11 років тому +10

    Who in their right mind decided EADGBE for tuning.... now THIS is what a guitar needs to be tuned in!

    • @jeremiahpeer5507
      @jeremiahpeer5507 3 роки тому +3

      to be fair the standard tuning is an incredibly useful tuning that is very easy to play in

  • @kathleenwarshawsky589
    @kathleenwarshawsky589 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful and lush--a real breath of fresh air. I believe I've heard some of Jeff's music on the New Age music channel (DirecTV).

  • @happyweasel422
    @happyweasel422 10 років тому +2

    7:35 is my favorite part! Song is beautiful!

  • @okcpicker
    @okcpicker 12 років тому +2

    So cool. We just finished a video about the Paniolos for the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Jeff's comment about the Paniolos & their guitars was interesting. Beautiful technique. Mahalo!

  • @brunopinheiro4041
    @brunopinheiro4041 3 роки тому

    Great talent! Awesome story in the beginning too!

  • @clarajays
    @clarajays 5 років тому +2

    It's so beautiful. I need to try

  • @vgrof2315
    @vgrof2315 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks from Oahu. Bravo!

  • @angelofmusic477
    @angelofmusic477 5 років тому +1

    I have been playing the standard Spanish guitar tuning for decades until , I started going into the the claw hammer and banjo rolls that I have to tune the guitar to slack key to play that style. Didn't know slack key tuning can play lots of other stuff that standard Guitar tuning can't. Cheers to slack key tuning.

  • @inyobill
    @inyobill 12 років тому +1

    Really, really nice cuz Jeff. That right there is a tasty presentation, thanks too much.

  • @motimenow
    @motimenow 4 роки тому +1

    Mahalo Jeff, awesome Braddah.

  • @dennylovesguitar
    @dennylovesguitar 14 років тому +1

    Great Video!

  • @benjamindorothy5667
    @benjamindorothy5667 3 роки тому

    Beautiful! Reminds me a lot of American Primitive Guitar.

  • @link3775
    @link3775 13 років тому

    Beautiful none the less, i play the bass and can relate to using different turnings for an opener sound, granted an octave lower.

  • @lawrenceglaser1530
    @lawrenceglaser1530 11 років тому +1

    Absolutely uplifting and educating! WELL DONE! ~;)

  • @molokinirum
    @molokinirum 12 років тому +1

    Aloha!!
    Maui no ka oi!!!
    Great playing, I am starting to learn slack key. Still learning ukulele.

  • @juliusandcrew813
    @juliusandcrew813 7 років тому +2

    hes amazing

  • @CASHXRAT
    @CASHXRAT 8 років тому +1

    Sounds a lot like Empty Calm by The Number 12 Looks Like You.
    Don't know how to categorize the band, some mixture of jazz, avant-garde, and death metal. But that particular song is for sure some kind of variation on Slack Key.

  • @donwilkie
    @donwilkie 5 років тому

    sweet lesson

  • @MuriMorello
    @MuriMorello 11 років тому

    great music.

  • @romaneberle
    @romaneberle 12 років тому +1

    beautiful, and very informative :-D

  • @penikoroi7057
    @penikoroi7057 6 років тому

    Amazing

  • @tupahutuokoneiswife3972
    @tupahutuokoneiswife3972 3 роки тому

    So much mahalo for your knowledge, actually motivated me to learn this art. Do we tune in 432? As far as history goes?

  • @fr3ak1shh
    @fr3ak1shh 7 років тому +2

    I've found a new passion. :)

  • @ziodice6166
    @ziodice6166 9 років тому +1

    Interesting. Very similar to Travis picking.

  • @MrAoki777
    @MrAoki777 7 років тому +9

    I play Hawaiian Slack Key guitar also. Jeff is from Maui. I'm from the Big Island. Slack Key originated on the Big Island. The "Roots" of Hawaiian Slack Key guitar are from the Big Island. Jeff does have some essence of the original roots style, yet it is highly stylized. "Roots' Slack Key players like Alice Namakelua, Fred Punahoa, Ledward Kaapana play the more simple, soulful style that originated here on the Island of Hawaii. Ledward, in my opinion, is the last living legendary "Roots" player of true, pure, unadulterated, Hawaiian Slack Key. I've known Ledward for over 40 years, and he influenced me to play somewhat like him, though I developed my own unique style-sometimes based on the rythmns of an "Ipu", a percussive gourd that players of it accompany hula dancers.

    • @tommythompsonsurfer
      @tommythompsonsurfer 5 років тому

      OLAMANA...1975..WAIKIKI!!! SO VERY SPECIAL.......classic first album.....KAHALUI........DRUG PROBLEM CAME TO HAWAII IN 1978............MANY DID NOT SURVIVE! LOVE MY OHANA &KULIANA!

    • @RheaBorja
      @RheaBorja 2 роки тому +3

      Music isn't a competition. Both Jeff and Led have something to contribute to slack key. One way of playing is not "better" than the other. In fact, Led and Jeff play together at times. As Jeff said in the video, "It's very important to me as someone practicing a cultural tradition here in Hawaii to always have a connection to the past, to the kapuna, those who came before. Whenever I play or do an arrangement of a song, I keep in mind where the music came from before me. As long as you have that connection with the kapuna, music can move forward in a way that's still culturally rooted."

  • @david52875
    @david52875 10 років тому +1

    Basically, what tuning you use should depend on what you're playing.

  • @Amabri0909
    @Amabri0909 2 роки тому

    What song is being played at 0:38? I'd love to purchase the sheet music!

  • @wjc1952
    @wjc1952 14 років тому

    Mahalo for sharing your mana`o and your music.
    Me ke aloha,
    Auntie Wanda

  • @vonhogan4625
    @vonhogan4625 5 років тому

    Aloha Sir :-) Just wanted to ask a quick question. I was once "stranded" ;-) over in Hawaii for 3 years and over heard one of Your songs which I still have even now. The song I speak of now is called "Polipoli". I was wondering if You'd be so kind as to share the meaning of that particular word Please? Mahalo

  • @maryh6074
    @maryh6074 Рік тому

    So what is the tuning for this style of playing? Did Jeff ever say it? I must have missed it.

  • @PAA1992
    @PAA1992 12 років тому

    Yes, I do I wasn't sure if that's what was really said, I didn't know that. I found it mildly entertaining because I didn't know it was a person's name that was my point. Although I wasn't trying to make a point because it was a question so quit trying to be rude.

  • @roopakvaidya1450
    @roopakvaidya1450 3 роки тому

    So how do you tune a guitar in slack-key tuning? What are the notes?

  • @frankkolton1780
    @frankkolton1780 3 роки тому

    Slack key, that what the old blues player called tuning standard tuning down a half step. Even Hendrix and SRV called it slack tuning.

  • @2listening1
    @2listening1 6 років тому

    Now I want to see the part about the regional cuisine that was shown next originally, lol!

  • @dstu39
    @dstu39 2 роки тому

    This fuckin guy....jams. Beautiful

  • @RaysTrack
    @RaysTrack 12 років тому

    that's a beautiful Goodall

  • @dottychesney974
    @dottychesney974 6 років тому

    totally spiritual for me.

  • @justsomeguy1074
    @justsomeguy1074 Рік тому

    I always thought it was just open G tuning. I didn't know it originated in Hawaii!

  • @KevinToine
    @KevinToine Рік тому

    What makes Slack Key guitar so different than just open tuning fingerstyle guitar? I'm not hearing much difference but maybe I'm missing something.

  • @leacook8126
    @leacook8126 5 років тому +1

    Always adore your music Jeff, it was an honor to share a table with you at the Hokus a few years back.. Truly a memorable occasion ~ Lea in Seattle www.dannycouchfanaddicts.com see you at the Slack Key Festival here in Nov

  • @tortoise2.04
    @tortoise2.04 4 роки тому +2

    This guy came to my school and blew my God dam mind. This is nothing compared to what he did at my school.

    • @moeb3325
      @moeb3325 4 роки тому +1

      tortoise 2.0 seeing him play live is life changing

    • @tortoise2.04
      @tortoise2.04 4 роки тому

      @@moeb3325 what school are you from

  • @dingusdingus9899
    @dingusdingus9899 3 роки тому +1

    if anyone knows the song at 7:35 lmk

  • @link3775
    @link3775 13 років тому

    similar to a banjo, although less shrill, and the strum/ finger roll pattern on the guitar sound more pleasing, and less danceish and uppity like on the banjo.

  • @oommggdude
    @oommggdude 11 років тому

    Why does it need to be pentatonic?

  • @MrBarrynicholas
    @MrBarrynicholas 3 місяці тому

    Never mentions the tuning he's playing in?

  • @hotone23
    @hotone23 12 років тому +3

    Jeff what tuning is this in..? taro?

  • @WaimanaloBlue
    @WaimanaloBlue 12 років тому

    Gabby, Sonny, Atta, Ozzie, Jeff.

  • @TheLizardskin
    @TheLizardskin 9 років тому

    search for Tião Carreiro e Pardinho videos on youtube, they played authentic Brazilian "Country" Music that is someway similar to this kind of guitar playing.

    • @LuckyMitzi
      @LuckyMitzi 9 років тому +1

      Only ingredient missing is the Aloha spirit.

  • @david52875
    @david52875 10 років тому

    I doesn't need to be, the pentatonic scale just lends itself well to blues and rock, which are both very popular forms of music, especially for the guitar.

  • @lgregoryauthor
    @lgregoryauthor 3 роки тому

    Jeff: What brand of guitar are you using in this video?

  • @PAA1992
    @PAA1992 12 років тому +1

    1:18 King Kamehameha?

  • @DAKOTARAMOS
    @DAKOTARAMOS 4 роки тому +1

    So what's the tuning?

  • @ahnadr
    @ahnadr 11 років тому

    Yes King Kamehameha 1st, the great.

  • @arianelcole
    @arianelcole 7 років тому

    That sounds like "milonga pampeana"

  • @evildemonicsnowmen
    @evildemonicsnowmen 11 років тому

    Kamehameha is the king who unified Hawai'i.

  • @alohakikadude
    @alohakikadude 8 років тому

    They are called 'Paniola', and somehow they use tge term -Paniolo.

  • @romaneberle
    @romaneberle 12 років тому +1

    I think its D-G-d-g-b(h)-d'

  • @inyobill
    @inyobill 12 років тому

    Yah, your point is? You do have a point?

  • @reeser8
    @reeser8 10 місяців тому

    Who came here from Ukulele Corner? And how is @JeffPetersonGuitar looking exactly the same now as 13 years ago?

  • @david52875
    @david52875 11 років тому

    Standard tuning exists for a reason. It is pentatonic.

    • @blahdelablah
      @blahdelablah 6 років тому +1

      You can play pentatonic scales in open tunings as well, that's what a lot of blues slide players use. Standard tuning aims to make it easier to play across multiple keys, whereas open tunings can make one key easier than the rest.

  • @Tonysparkz
    @Tonysparkz 12 років тому

    hahaha