Using an Alternative Guitar Capo to Imitate Hawaiin Slack Key and More!

Hawaiian Slack Key tunings can be imitated with the alternative tunings capo.
The most common slack key tuning is called "taro patch" and makes a major chord. Capo at the second fret, the fourth string, the third string G, and the second string B. We call this [0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0] from bass to treble, thick to thin- strings. In the traditional taro patch the chord is a G chord, but with the partial guitar capo it is an A chord. However, the open tuning is exactly the same interval by interval. I often keep my entire guitar tuned down a whole step for a richer sound. So for me, the Taro patch is an actual G chord.
There are upward to 50 slack key tunings. Far to much to cover here, but be aware that some slack keys will require two alternative tuning capo's. For example, the G Wahine open tuning is: D, G, D, F#, B, D. This translates to: [0, 2, 2, 1, 2, 0] and requires Spiders at the 1st and 2nd frets.
The partial guitar capo also gives you options to address the huge variety of fingerboards in use today.
To achieve and important on place the capo tab flush against and in front of the fret rather than behind. This will result in the alternative tunings capo finger depressing the guitar string directly over the fret. The result is more precise intonation, but no fine tuning. Try this, many folks swear by it!
When you get your alternative tunings capo, take it apart. All you have to do is unscrew the knob and the slide fingers off. I put back four fingers and found, basically, unlimited tunings and less fingers to deal with. It's easier and you don't need all six unless you're going to use it as a full capo. Take them off!
Why is it that all the strings on the guitar are roots of sharp keys?
Let's see; E has four sharps, A has three sharps, D has two sharps, G has one sharp, and B has five sharps!
Horns on the other hand love to play in flat keys. For example, trumpet and tenor sax transpose a second, so their happy keys of C, G, F become Bb, F and Eb for us. All flat keys.No happy open strings. ugh. Any ringing open strings sound bad.

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Hip-hop was once regarded as an all-male-arena, like the many other male dominated industries. Today, however, women have arrived. From MC Lyte who was launched by Def Jam in the early 80s to the Beyonce and J-Los and Mystic of today, our women are singing, and they are singing to the heart's content! Look at rapper Paccy for instance. She debuted in 2009 and is one of the young ones on the blocks - Paccy wants to make a difference and she raps about "equality in society."
On the other hand, the audience has matured as well. The subjects that can be 'tolerated' and not deemed as gross or ugly are beginning to diminish. Even women can discuss and rap about money, glamor and physical intimacy as our society is opening up to it. It is all a part of life and after all, rapping is about life as well.
Some time back in 2010, we had 14 year-old Brian Bradley a.k.a. rapper Astronomical Kid rapping, "Stop Looking at My Moms." He had candidly said that he expected other teenagers to relate to the song because having people stare at you mother is definitely offensive. The sad part is that it happens - it happens to all women. Most rap song videos have women presented as mere objects; with a man in the center and poorly clad women, in dozens, surrounding him. Such representation degrades; bringing down the self-depreciating, self-negating, underprivileged black woman even further. Even statistics show that many Black-American women believe that they have nothing more than sex to offer to a man. Rap lyrics, more often, reinstall these concepts destroying the self-worth as well.What good are we doing to our women and children if this is all we rap about? Perhaps such content can be enjoyed for a while, but there is a need for a healthy mix and a healthy culture.
The kind of "Real Music" which is evolving from ladies doesn't have explicit content that young listeners need to be protected from and nor is it too naive for the adult rap-fan. However, although the fan is growing to understand and accept the woman rapper, the real battle for her lies within the industry. The industry is still male dominated, still has men rapping about women in disparaging ways and it still has people who don't want to share the space. There are people who will make her look bad and there are also followers who will believe that. Above this, lie the societal norms and beliefs about the singers; with the many criminal cases and records registered against stars, there is a general notion that every hip hop world-star artist is a criminal. The woman has to break all these barriers, look ahead and make good music.

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