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Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Written by Harold Harlen & Yip Harburg. Though this evergreen song is not genuine Hawaiian music it is very popular there. It was made a huge hit by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole in 1990's. I made this arrangement to honour his Memory and Touching...
Somewhere Over The Wonderful World
I was playing at the one and only Tropical Winter Uke Fest and heard Derick Sebastian to play a combo of these two great pieces. I got an idea to broaden my arr of Somewhere Over the Rainbow to honor late Iz Kamakawiwo'ole even better. I also combined the title...(sorry) The end is different from...
St. Louis Rag
Written by Tom Turpin in 1903 for St. Louis World Exposition. I have written this arrangement again from old piano score: same time trying to stay faithful to original and also tried to sound good on guitar. I got some great guidance for arranging from Lasse Johansson to reach that...
Steam Head's Stomp
"Written" by me. This is an evidence of existence of creative unmusicality! I thought to play Sister Kate's Syncopated Dance from memory after forgetting it. Then I watched it from YouTube and I noticed that "my version" is pretty far from original. Then I added some things there and decided to...
The Boxer
This song reminds me one of the highlight moments of my life: meeting Paul Simon at Aloha Music Camp. He sang this song to us and I think all have a tear in their eye. Paul kindly signed my guitar case too, see photo above!
I got nostalgic and adapted an arr to Slack Key in Keola's C tuning which...
Tiger Shark (Tiikerihai)
Very well known Hawaiian classic in Finland but the origin is from 1930's Britain by Peter Hodgkinson. This arr is based on Hawaiian Steel Guitar performance of Onni Gideon but not a straight cover. Note that the video is not excact with the Tab and feel free to play in your...
Ua Like No a Like
A Kevin Howard's dreamy arrangement of this old Hawaiian love song. It's said the song is written in 1812 by Alice Everett which is not probably true, more likely the song is from late 19th century. Both natural and artificial harmonic techniques are used in this arr and thus this is not the...
Varpunen jouluaamuna
This is most loved Christmas song in Finland. IT's nothing about Santa and happy Christmas time. The song composed by Otto Kotilainen in 1913 to poem of Zhacarias Topelius' poem from 1859. The poem was written to his son who died at age of 1 year. The guitars are in Standard and C wahine tunings....
Waltz Nahenahe
Written by me. I had an idea to play Hawaiian style waltz. There weren't many to find and the idea lived in my mind. One morning I woke up at 5.30 with Waltz in my head (not Blues!) and that born to be this...
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
Written by John Turner Layton & Henry Cramer. This is old jazz standard from 1920's. I have again arranged this from original piano score and the speciality of this arr. is that here are all 3 parts, not only the chorus which is usually considered as this song. Check...
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