Lessons Online -- Slack Key Guitar With Keola Beamer You've heard the music - did you ever think about creating it yourself? The Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar is a wonderful platform for expression. And guess what? It's not that hard to learn to play! It's a rewarding and relaxing hobby that could give you years of meaningful interaction with a whole world of rich, beautiful, and somehow still mysterious music. It can take you places that you never imagined.

Sandy MacMaster of Aloha Plenty writes: Keola provides detailed analysis of hand positions and strokes. Good finger exercises are also provided. And there's real audio files of the exercises as well. These are important for getting your hands to dance comfortably together which is part of how 'slack key' happens. Bottom Line: Worth the price of admission and we look forward to seeing what's next in the Keola Beamer instruction goody bag! To read the whole review go to; http://home1.gte.net/aplenty/kbeamerweb01.htm Loving the online course and looking forward to playing more pieces and getting mo'better. Mike M, San Diego, CA

Teaching the Slack Key Guitar has been one of the greatest joys in my life and I've helped hundreds of students. I know you can learn to play because I am the person who can show you how!

It's the dawn of a new Millinneum and thanks to some wonderful innovations on the 'net, we can share the resources and knowledge of our culture like never before. I've given considerable thought to using the net as a teaching tool which has resulted in the some wonderful innovations. My web-lessons are new teaching methods, enabling you to work faster & smarter. These techniques really work! This wonderful style of music will come alive from beneath your own hands, as you create it from the story of your own life.

Here are some simple tools that you will need to study with me;

1. A Guitar (Nothing fancy - any guitar will do. electric, acoustic, nylon, steel string - it doesn't matter!)
   

   

2. Adobe Acrobat Reader to download and view my tablature and music files. Click on the graphic to the right to download.
   

   

3. Real Player to hear me demonstrate the pieces you'll be studying. Click on the graphic to the right to download.
   

4. (Optional) QuickTime. This technology is included in all Apple Macintosh computers, and can be downloaded and installed on Windows machines. Some video files included in the lesson plan can be viewed in either RealVideo or Quicktime, with the Quicktime files being considerably larger and clearer.
   

   

5. A "Pono" attitude or conciousness. You must learn to play with aloha in your heart. Slack key is filled with the beauty and mysticism of the Hawaiian culture. To get the most out of your lessons, come with respect for its traditions and an openess in your heart.

Keola Beamer
Lahaina, Hawaii

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Here is what you will experience and learn in your first Web-lessons with Keola. The following is his simple and fun study plan, which will result in your playing two wonderful Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar pieces, "Aunty Alice Slack Key" and "Ka Lupe 'Ula".

Lesson Materials Supplied in the Beginning / Intermediate Realm are;

1. Fundamentals
2. Basic Exercises
3. C Wahine
4. Taro Patch
5. How To Read Tablature
6. Tablature Exercise 1
7. Tablature Exercise 2
8. Tablature Exercise 3
9. Tablature Exercise 4
10. Modified C Wahine Tuning
11. Tablature Exercise 5
12. Aunty Alice Slack Key
13. How do we call aloha into our lives?
14. 'G' Double Slack Tuning
15. Ka Lupe 'Ula
16. How to proceed from here ...

Screen Shot of Tablature

The cost of this package for a 3 month period is $9.95. You submit your order via our secure server and within 24 hours, you receive your user name & password via email. These codes unlock the Beginning / Intermediate Realm. At that point, you have free and complete access. You can study with us at any hour of the day or night!

Are you ready for some seriously fun guitar playing? Come join our 'Ohana (Family). Click here for our Paypal order form.