Famed Hawaiian educator Aunty Nona Beamer gave him the Hawaiian name Kailana–Gently Floating on the Sea–and encouraged Mark to continue to teach Hawaiian music to all who wish to learn. For your listening pleasure here is a collection of Ki Ho’alu a/k/a Hawaiian Slack Key guitar instrumentals. Along with Keola Beamer, he is the author of Mel Bay’s Learn to Play Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, the first widely-available slack key instruction manual. Gabby was known to many in Hawaiian music circles as Pops a felicitous echo of a nickname long held by Louis Armstrong, who maintains an analogous stature. His love for slack key guitar led him to travel to Hawai‘i and study with many of the masters of the art. The earliest known slack-key recording, a version of Hiilawe that Gabby Pahinui recorded in 1946, carries this pulse beneath the surface of a more obvious two-step rhythm. Mark Kailana Nelson is an entertainer, musician and educator. For your listening pleasure here is another collection of Ki Ho’alu a/k/a Hawaiian Slack Key guitar instrumentals. These are the classic melodies–with a couple originals–played just as you’d hear them in a backyard party kani kapila–full of interesting twists and turns, sometimes richly complex, but always nahenahe–as natural and refreshing as an ocean breeze. Written in tablature and standard musical notation, Old-Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar features 24 of the essential instrumentals every aspiring slack key player should know.
By day, the paniolo taught the Hawaiians to rope and ride, by night they serenaded them with the soft sounds of Spanish guitars. Legend has it the first guitars were brought by cowboys imported from Alta California to deal with wild cattle. Called ki ho‘alu in Hawaiian, it developed in the 19th century. Hawaiian slack key guitar is one of the world’s great guitar traditions.
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