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Jump to: 6str (0:06) | 5str (0:17) | 4str (0:27) | 3str (0:38) | 2str (0:49) | 1str (0:59) Full page: https://ragajunglism.org/tunings/menu... | “An Open C variant with an odd structure, mixing tense upwindings (4str) with radical slackenings (6str). Associated with the great Hawaiian master Leland ‘Atta’ Isaacs Sr. (1929–1983), who used it to inject fresh, jazzy voicings into the slack-key music of his era. Beautifully concise: only three notes are used, but all adjacent string pairs are separated by unique intervals (perf. 5th / maj. 6th / min. 3rd / perf. 4th / maj. 3rd). The resulting multi-key versatility has led slack-key performer Dagan Bernstein to describe Atta’s C as the “Holy Grail…the age-old quest that slack-key artists have always dreamt of finding”. This was, it seems, always the main aim of Atta’s original mission – as recounted in a touching familial retrospective: “[Atta] began to ponder and cultivate thoughts of [slack-key]. He loved the principle of it, but felt its mood was a bit ‘morbid’ and slow-paced. He also noticed that re-tuning was required when the singers changed the key they wanted to sing in, [and] instinctively began to search for that perfect tuning…Every waking hour…was spent tuning and re-tuning, playing various chords to no avail. Time went on, and turned into years. But he was persistent…He talked to a close, elderly, family friend who was knowledgeable about music and chords. It was from this meeting that the seed was planted…This was our mother’s account: ‘One night Pops was tuning and playing his guitar – like every other night. He slacked one of the strings, began playing, and shouted, ‘Nola, I got it! I got it! This is the one!‘”. Generally, it is seen as a descendent of either ‘Gabby’s Hi’ilawe‘ (C-G-E-G-B-E) or ‘Leonard’s C‘ (C–G–D–G–B–D) – both members of the maj. 7th-based C Wahine family (whereas Atta’s is ‘just’ a major triad). Use it to summon some ‘chicken skin’ music: a Hawaiian colloquial term for ‘goosebumps’ (as in, the spine-tingling sensation of being moved by sound)...” • Atta’s C | C-G-E-G-C-E | Semitone pattern (i.e. 'what to press'): 7/9/3/5/4 “In the words of slackmaster James ‘Bla’ Pahinui: “I never heard anyone on the planet play slack-key the way Atta did…every time when it was Atta’s turn to take a solo, the sound just exploded, and my dad [Gabby Pahinui] absolutely loved it. Atta was a part of what made my life wonderful, and he’s part of what I’m trying to say through my music…”. According to slack-key scholar George Winston, Atta “concentrated on mainly playing the four highest-pitched strings”, leaving more room for his stellar cast of accompanists as well as allowing simpler modulation between keys – a comparatively under-explored dimension of Hawaii’s famously chord-tuned traditions. The tuning’s unusual intervallic scattering builds on Atta’s jazzier inclinations (he was a huge Les Paul fan) – as showcased on tracks such as How’d You Do (where, despite being tuned to C, he plays the song in F, with a modulation to Bb for the bridge). You can also hear it in action via the work of acolytes such as his son Leland Isaacs Jr., his nephew Wayne Reis, and his longtime collaborator Cyril Pahinui (e.g. He’eia)...” More info: https://ragajunglism.org/tunings/menu... ———————————————————————————— —Altered Tunings Menu: Explore 100+ tunings from around the world (notes, chords, songs, harmonies, histories, myths, & more): https://ragajunglism.org/tunings/menu/ —Rāga Junglism's World of Tuning: A ‘global guitar’ project aiming to reinvigorate our peg-twisting rituals, examining new tuning horizons from multiple musical angles: practical, harmonic, historic, social, scientific, spiritual, and so forth. We take a global view, incorporating ideas from a worldwide variety of string traditions – India, Hawaii, Mali, Madagascar, Java, New Guinea, and beyond. See the full project: https://ragajunglism.org/tunings/ All resources on my site will stay 100% open-access & ad-free: above all, I want these pages to bring creative joy, and catalyse some fresh questioning around what we - and the guitar - are truly capable of. If you want to support these projects, hire me to play/write/record, or try out some online lessons: expand your sonic imagination with ideas from global music! Get in touch: https://ragajunglism.org/teaching/ —Rāga Junglism | George Howlett https://ragajunglism.org/ (rāga: ‘that which colours the mind’)