Slack Key Duet – Which One is the Evil Twin?

Thursday, May 29th, 2014

I visit the Acoustic Guitar Forum regularly to keep up on the latest news and gadgets and to enjoy the performances posted there. The forum is full of talented players in a wide variety of styles and has an active section of folks showing their stuff. Lately one of the posters started a thread asking for music from movies and TV shows, so I immediately thought of The Descendants and the slack key tunes they chose. I found a gorgeous self-duet version of `Imi Au Ia `Oe by Keola Beamer and set out to come up with my own arrangement.

I’ve played this lovely old Hawaiian waltz for years, even taught a version at the San Francisco Aloha Festival, so I wanted to add a little something extra to this version. After tossing around various ideas I decided to emulate Keola to some extent and do a self-duet. Mine would not be lovely as his, or as precisely composed, but mine would be live on video!

The backyard of our Kailua beach rental is a perfect place for slack key videos, so I set up some cameras and a couple of beach towels and had a great time playing along with my evil twin. Or am I the evil twin and that other guy is the good guy?



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I have recorded a CD called Kaleponi, all solo acoustic slack key instrumentals, mostly traditional pieces, a few originals.

     

You an buy a copy of the CD or download the tracks at CD Baby.

If you prefer, you can download individual tracks or the whole album from iTunes as well.

The complete liner notes and back cover notes of Kaleponi are available here.