Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son

[Figarosmom]

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. Taught Some Students Tye 1st & 4th

They were cousins, so we dud 90 minutes with both of them.
They both liked Kansas so they wanted to learn these two.
They did ok, but never nailed the riffs exactly. Bur, they had fun with it.

[Figarosmom]

2. You were a good teacher i bet

Good that they had fun.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Pretty Good Teacher

On guitar.
Piano, not so much. In my mid 20s, I taught both guitar & piano at a local store about a mile from my house.
By then, I has been playing piano around 20 years. When the kids would struggle with something I'm battling an urge to scream "Come on! This is easy!" I had forgotten what it was like for piano to be hard.
On guitar, I was only playing 5 years. I remembered my fingertips hurting. I remembered that, as much as I understood music & chord construction, that my fingers would automatically go where I needed them to go. I remember that single notes were harder than I figured.
I had way more empathy as a guitar teacher than as a piano teacher.

[keep_left]

4. "Dust in the Wind" is a really good example of the "Lifeson method"...

...as I call it, of Nashville tuning. This involves double-tracking two acoustic guitars. Here's the rundown.

...Lifeson wanted to use a 12-string acoustic, but when he pulled it out of the case, it had developed a crack which affected the tone negatively. So instead, Lifeson and their producer (Terry Brown) decided to double-track two acoustic guitars, one in normal concert pitch and the other in "Nashville tuning". This is an alternate tuning where the octave strings from a 12-string set are used to replace the top four (lowest) strings on a 6-string guitar. The two tracks are then panned left and right to create a really big "12-string" out of two 6-strings.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034147198#post1

For some reason (studio mic technique, probably), you can't hear the super-wide 12-string effect as well as you can on the Rush song ( "Entre Nous" ). A classic, nonetheless.

[Figarosmom]

5. Thanks

That's interesting.