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Nic Neufeld


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Post  Posted 7 Jul 2020 4:59 am    
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Couple weeks ago my teacher gave me this arrangement...it was written by Elmer Bernstein for the 1960s movie "Hawaii" (based on Micheners novel and starring Max Von Sydow and Julie Andrews...not a particularly exceptional movie but a good tune). It's a fairly simple arrangement but it has a nice mix of slants that I obviously had some trouble keeping in tune (lots of 5-6-7 type slants on the top three strings, and a few reverse adjacent string slants).

https://clyp.it/d2vfnshz
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Steve Marinak


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Man O War Cay, Abaco, Bahamas
Post  Posted 8 Jul 2020 4:15 am    
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Nic,
Thanks for sharing! That's very nice. Who is your teacher?
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Nic Neufeld


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Post  Posted 8 Jul 2020 4:16 am    
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Alan Akaka...he keeps me well stocked with new arrangements (and stories of the old-timers) Very Happy
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Mike A Holland


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Post  Posted 8 Jul 2020 5:38 am    
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Really nice Nick. Beautifully played!
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Steven Cummings

 

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Post  Posted 8 Jul 2020 7:28 am    
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Enjoyed that.
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David Matzenik


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Post  Posted 8 Jul 2020 5:20 pm    
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Nice work, Nic. I don't remember the tune, even though I have seen the movie a couple of times.
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Nic Neufeld


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Post  Posted 9 Jul 2020 6:05 am    
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Here's my favorite version from Hawaii Calls, I assume Barney Isaacs on steel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noZc_YngMXs

And while I'm a bit too old fashioned in my musical taste to be much of a Don Ho fan, I feel like his version was fairly popular, of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baC3moLsbrQ
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