Hawaiian slack key guitar is an acoustic, fingerstyle genre that arose as a low-key genres based in the islands; only since the 1970s has it become well known worldwide. The name “slack key” comes from the practice of the guitarist’s loosening, or making “slack” the strings of a guitar until together they play a single chord. The classic slack-key tunes are simple yet bright and airy; they lilt and laugh and, for real, “sound” like Hawaii. In this video watch slack key guitar master George Kahumoku play this distinctly mellow kind of music.
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