Ozzie Kotani
Guitar Playing Hawaiian Style with Ozzie Kotani Ki Ho'alu Vol. 1 An Instructional Method for Slack Key Guitar DVD
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Ozzie Kotani presents Guitar Playing Hawaiian Style, slack key guitar lessons with on screen guitar tab.
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- 1 Pauoa Liko Ka Lehua
- 2 Introduction to slack key
- 3 History of slack key
- 4 Tunings
- 5 Taro Patch Tuning
- 6 How to read tablature notation
- 7 Techniques and ornamentations
- 8 Vamps
- 9 Ritard
- 10 Sustain
- 11 Barre
- 12 Chimes
- 13 Strum
- 14 Slides
- 15 Pull Offs
- 16 Add Ons
- 17 Hammers
- 18 Right Hand
- 19 Left Hand
- 20 Tunings by frets
- 21 Developing a picking style
- 22 Kani Ki Ho'alu
- 23 Kani Ki Ho'alu play along slowly
- 24 Kani Ki Ho'alu improvised and embellished
- 25 Open and closed positions
- 26 Molehu
- 27 Molehu improvised and embellished
- 28 'Awiwi
- 29 Kaula Ili
- 30 Maika'i Ka Makani o Kohala
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Description: Slack key artist Ozzie Kotani reveals in depth how he plays the unique Hawaiian guitar style known as ki ho'alu or slack key. In his refined teaching style, Ozzie demonstrates the fundamentals of the folk tradition in the Taro Patch Tuning, offering extensive hints, options and suggestions. As a supplement to lessons or to complement his best selling book, GUITAR PLAYING HAWAIIAN STYLE, this DVD will be a treasured resource to interested and curious guitarists of all fingerstyles.
Explore ki ho'alu at your own pace with Ozzie as he brings you into the tradition with a focused process and compositions that springboards the viewer into playing slack key with songs such as Kani Ki Ho'alu (The Sound of Slack Key), Molehu (Dusk), and 'Awiwi (Hurry) with on screen tablature. Then, progress to higher levels as Ozzie demonstrates his emphasis on gaining a sense of ownership in the execution of a song, by stepping away from tablature and improvising.
Advanced Feature: Presentations of "Pauoa Liko Ka Lehua," "Maika'i Ka Makani O Kohala," and "Kaula Ili." "This section will challenge and inspire students to apply what they have learned in the traditional manner by watching, listening and then experimenting without the use of any notation."
Summary: Multi-angle shots and close-ups makes this slack key instructional DVD foundational and enjoyable for anyone interested in one of the obscurest fingerstyles still to be explored - from novice to the advanced guitar player. Using split screen and on screen tablature notation, the student will be able to follow both hands of respected artist and instructor Ozzie Kotani as he carefully guides the viewer through the selected songs.
Drawing on a teaching method crafted while he taught at the University of Hawaii, Ozzie includes variations, options, and suggestions over the range of subject matters covered on this, his first, DVD.
Hop aboard and see how easy it is to start playing guitar Hawaiian style!
Chapters include: Introduction to Slack Key, The History of Slack Key, Tunings, Taro Patch Tuning, How to Read Tablature Notation, Techniques and Ornamentations: Vamps, Ritard, Sustain, Barre, Chimes, Strum, Slides, Pull Offs, Add Ons, Hammers, Right Hand, Left Hand, Tuning by Frets, Developing a Picking Style; Introduction to Kani Ki Ho‘alu, Kani Ki Ho‘alu, Kani Ki Ho‘alu Play Along Slowly, Kani Ki Ho‘alu Improvised & Embellished; Open and Closed Positions, Molehu, Molehu Improvised & Embellished; ‘Awiwi; Advanced Feature: This section will challenge and inspire students to learn in the traditional manner. Watch, listen and experiment without the use of tablature, Kaula Ili, Maika‘i Ka Makani o Kohala.
Endorsements:
“Ozzie is among the most naturally gifted teachers I've ever known. His instruction is unfailingly clear, engaging, well-presented, and inspiring - this is pedagogy of the highest rank! Ozzie's teaching materials are required reading for our ki ho'alu seminar at Stanford - and our students are lucky, indeed, to have access to his outstanding mentorship in this beautiful art form."
-Steve Sano, Chair, Department of Music, Stanford University
“Ozzie Kotani is one of the great Hawaiian slack key guitarists. He is one of the leading educators in slack key having taught slack key courses at the University of Hawai‘i and sharing through private lessons and workshops. Ozzie continually explores new ways of teaching and bringing slack key guitar to the public. This DVD is one of the manifestations of this endeavor.”
- George Winston
Ozzie Kotani is a featured artist on the 2006 and 2007 Grammy Award-winning albums Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Vol. 1 and Legends of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar-Live from Maui. He was also honored with the 2004 Na Hoku Hanohano Ki Ho’alu Award.
Ozzie Kotani
Intro:
In addition to being one of Hawaii’s recognized practitioner of the folk art form ki ho`alu kika (widely known as slack key guitar), Ozzie Kotani is also a composer, recording artist, performer, and instructor. In fact, he is well known for his teaching having brought hundreds of players into the folk art form via his book, Guitar Playing Hawaiian Style (a best seller for Mel Bay Publishing, Inc.), classes, and workshops.
Musical Beginnings:
Born in 1956, Ozzie was raised in Pauoa Valley in Honolulu on the island of O`ahu. He heard music in his home at an early age – both his sisters played piano – and he began playing the ukulele during elementary school. His next musical instrument was the Sousaphone, more commonly known as the tuba, and he ended up playing and marching through intermediate and high school with it. In fact, it was in his senior year when he first tried playing the music of the great slack key artist Keola Beamer. Seized by an unexplainable drive to learn this style of guitar playing after Keola's music grabbed him, Ozzie took evening classses at the University of Hawaii College of Continuing Education from his first teacher Peter Medeiros in 1975. Soon after, he began studying with Sonny Chillingworth, one of the greatest slack key artists of all time. Both were invaluable to his development; Peter mentored and taught Kotani concepts and tunings while Sonny showed him songs and his superb guitar work in slack key.
Other influences for Ozzie (whom he did not study with) include Keola Beamer (whose music he first worked with which resulted in his right hand technique), Peter Moon (the brilliant ukulele/slack key virtuoso who influenced Ozzie on his aggressive attack and phrasing), and all of the following who Ozzie listened to and tried to figure out and play along with: Gabby Pahinui, Atta Isaacs, Leonard Kwan, Raymond Kane, Ledward Kaapana, Nelson Hiu, and George Helm amongst others.
Kotani has also studied the music of the early slack key artists including Henry Kaalekahi, Abraham Konanui, Tommy Blaisdell, George Nainoa, Alice Namakelua, William Namahoe, and others.
Classes, Lectures, and Workshops:
Ozzie first began teaching at Floyd's of Hawaii followed by classes at the YBA of Honolulu. From 1986 through 1999, Ozzie offered Slack Key Guitar Classes at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, College of Continuing Education. The classes presented were Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, and Vintage non-credit courses. Ozzie also went on to start the first credited slack key guitar course which he handed to Medeiros upon his departure from the University.
“The classes always filled and I would often expand the class from 15 to 20 individuals. This was a critical period for me where I had to really develop my teaching skills. I gained a great deal of experience and an education in the process.”
Kotani has also been involved in numerous workshops and classes at venues including Harry's Music, Keola Beamer's Aloha Camp, George Kahumoku's Slack Key Camp, Gryphons in Palo Alto, Ledward Kaapana's Slack Key Workshops, Stanford University, and many other sites while traveling. He also presented a slack key ukulele workshop at the annual Ukulele Guild Conference in 2006.
He has taught privately since 1978 and continues to do so as time allows. One of Ozzie's top students, 16 year old Daniel Carvalho, was featured on National Public Radio’s aclaimed From the Top program and recently performed with Garrison Keillor’s A Prarie Home Companion. His most recent work has been in the Hawaiian homestead area known as Papakolea. Ozzie arranged free classes and provided instruments and materials for a program under the Boys and Girls Club of Hawaii. His students have been videotaped for the DOE Public Television and have performed at community events, libraries, and the annual Slack Key Festivals in Honolulu.
In 2000, Kotani published his slack key instructional book titled Guitar Playing Hawaiian Style: Ki Ho`alu An Instructional Method for Slack Key Volume One. Now a "best seller" with Mel Bay Publishing, Inc., hundreds of individuals have gotten a start playing slack key through this resource. “I wanted to share my teaching method and used the hints for playing sections to be my voice. I am still amazed at how it is still being used after so many years and it's a reassurance that I was on the right track,” says Ozzie. “Recently I have really focused on passing on the tradition and helping others learn songs and techniques. It's all about showing how unique slack key really is. ”
Recording Artist:
Ozzie's first experience in the studio was as a back-up guitarist in a band for his teacher Sonny Chillingworth on the album Sonny, released in 1977. He recorded his first solo album, Classical Slack, in 1988. He followed up his debut album with Kani Ki Ho`alu (The Sound of Slack Key) in 1995, E Ho`ohiwahiwa I Ka Mo`i Wahine, To Honor a Queen: The Music of Lili`uokalani in 2002, and Paka Ua (Raindrops) in 2005.
He has collaborated with Stanford University Chair of Music Stephen Sano on two recordings: A Taro Patch Christmas (all songs played in the Taro Patch Tuning) and Omoide: Remembrance (a collection of Japanese and Okinawan songs).
His studio work for Japanese recording projects includes slack key guitarist Yuki Alani Yamauchi's Hawai`i Aloha and vocalist/kumu hula Sandii's Sandii's Hawai`i 2nd and Sandii's Hawaiian Xmas.
Ozzie has also accompanied vocalists Joanie Komatsu, Anjani Thomas, Cheryl Bartlett, and Teresa Bright on selections from their recordings and is featured on numerous compilation CDs including releases under Dancing Cat Records, Daniel Ho Creations, Orange Tree Productions, and Windham Hill.
His work was most recently featured on the past two Hawaiian Grammy Winning Albums – the 2006 Masters of Slack Key Live from the Ritz-Carlton and the 2007 release Legends of Slack Key Live from the Ritz-Carlton.
Performances and Concerts:
Kotani has performed on the Mainland, Spain, and Japan, as well as all around the Hawaiian Islands. He performed the first all instrumental solo concert at Stanford University in 1997. Ozzie continues to concertize his most recent outings being at Stanford University, the Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua and the Atherton Theatre at Hawaii Public Radio.
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Review of Playing Guitar Hawaiian Style
author: NancyI hadn't thought about playing guitar for awhile until I heard Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar on public radio one morning. Huge Wow! It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard. So I bought Masters of the Slack Key guitar Vol. one and two and researched online books etc to learn the style. As a beginner again, I wanted to get the most out of my first lessons. Ozzie Kotani's book and DVD seemed like the best place to start. I have not been disappointed. In the DVD, Ozzie explains the best finger positions, how to play and embellish the songs, and an especially useful exercise of open and closed positions on the 1st and 3rd strings. You get a view of each hand during play and tablature at the bottom of the screen. I am very happy with his lesson book and DVD. I hope Ozzie will make more lesson DVD's of Hawaiian Slack Key. His playing style is superb; his lessons a national treasure. Thanks Ozzie. .....If you're thinking about buying the DVD, do it. It's worth every penny!