That’s what makes the song deceptively hard. Meaning to "White Sandy Beach Of Hawai'i" song lyrics. On a white sandy beach of Hawaii We were playing in the sun We were having so much fun On a white sandy beach of Hawaii The sound of the ocean Soothes my restless soul The sound of the ocean Rocks me all night long Those half-hound summer days lying there in the sun On a white sandy beach of Hawaii The sound of the ocean Soothes my restless soul © 2010 The Mountain Apple Company & Kamaka FlowerHow is it that a voice and an instrument make one cry. When you get to the B flat chord, the 6th note in in the tab refers to the 2nd fret on the G string (an A note), is this correct? Thanks!I’m just looking at the intro fingerpicking in the tab. To avoid confusion to what is the Official video of his songs, we are continuing to upload these Official Videos to our new I really wish I could have met this man….what an awesome soul he was with a voice of an angel.All I can say is he and his music is absolutely Beautiful!I’m deeply honored to present my official remix of the platinum hit Over The Rainbow by Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole.I decided to give out this unmastered virgin track as a gift because I believe in my heart that the world needs as much of IZ’s sweet voice as possible right now.If you want to download a WAV file or MP3 of this remix, please mesage me:This recording is the property of The Mountain Apple Company in Honolulu, HI. The chords and sequence presented are spot on.that’s kind of a hard question to answer, but we tried to in our latest Live Lesson:If you don’t watch the Live Lesson, Aldrine Adjusted the song, so he could play it on a high G and to also incorporate the intro picking that IZ does and the rhythm Iz uses when singing. Song Duration: 2 min 37 sec. Watch Video Comment Enlarge font. On a white sandy beach of Hawaii We were playing in the sun We were having so much fun On a white sandy beach of Hawaii The sound of the ocean Soothes my restless soul The sound of the ocean Rocks me all night long Those half-hound summer days lying there in the sun On a white sandy beach of Hawaii The sound of the ocean Soothes my restless soul The original song is written in 4/4 and listening carefully to IZ playing it he seems to be playing 4 notes per chord, which is logical. I've never even been to Hawaii and this song takes me there in spirit. They are so blessed to see you where there is no pain and no sadness. An example of triplets in 4/4 is the Vamp strumming Aldrine did for I Kona:You are exactly right about the rhythm. In the original, Iz is playing a low G, but since Aldrine’s Ukuleles uses a high G, he adjusted to start the fingerpicking pattern on C. Aldrine also needed to change the rhythm of the picking to match how Iz sings the melody line.I’ll try to write out how the fingerpicking rhythm works in tab form:Heads up, it starts on the + of the previous measure. If you did a pattern like Iz (low to high 8th note fingerpicking), it would still line up, but you wouldn’t hear the melody notes ring out.Fingerpicking Pattern closer to Iz’ background fingerpicking pattern:All this added information might be confusing, but I hope that helps answer your question. I tried to write it out so the rhythm above the tab would be spaced to the notes, but I forgot that the comments condenses the space, so it looks weird.. Hopefully this looks better:Good catch. All Rights Reserved. To me it sounds like straight 4/4, with the 6 notes being played as eighth-notes in a different rhythm as follows:Maybe my ears are just broken, though Magic Mike is ALWAYS right!I think Mike was explaining in general how a 4/4 song could have a 3 note or 6 note rhythm pattern using triplets, and Aldrine continued to use triplets to describe the rhythm. - … There probably are some triplets that I missed somewhere, and if you try to count along to the original song, Iz will sometimes cut a beat short so it’s like 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +. For many of you, winter is still in full swing - so this month we're This is a well thought and presented lesson. There are so many versions of video’s from IZ’s songs that have been uploaded to YouTube. This would fit a song in 3/4 or 6/8 better.