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Plank_Spanker
November 9th, 2006, 02:24 PM
I've read a couple of articles where that was mentioned, and I have no idea what it is.

As you see, theory is not my forte..........:o

aeolian
November 9th, 2006, 03:20 PM
Prior to you asking this question, all I know is that it usually refers to Hawaiian music. Now that you asked the question I looked it up in Wikipedia and this is what I found:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_key

aeolian

Plank_Spanker
November 9th, 2006, 03:55 PM
So, it's basically variations on open tunings.

BJunior
December 14th, 2006, 07:10 PM
Ask Mark...:)

http://www.accentonmusic.com/book_detail.asp?qID=26

-Jon

R_of_G
May 14th, 2007, 04:07 PM
Lately I have been doing a lot of playing in what some article online called "Modal G tuning" which is DGDGCD. What I know is that on my acoustic guitar it makes me think of the Dark Tower novels [which I'd do anyway], specifically the story that Jake, Eddie and Susannah all share about having encountered the same "musician" in Central Park, a homeless man playing a saw, who says "sounds Hawai'ian, doesn't it?" While I don;t know if the afforementioned tuning is genuine "slack key" or not, it sounds very Hawai'an and lends itself to melodic playing quite nicely.