Hey everybody,
I could have sworn I did a lesson on Carry On years ago, but clearly was misremembering something. That oversight has been corrected now with a very detailed lesson that shows how Stephen Stills played it originally on Deja Vu, in his favorite modal tuning (DADDAD) for practical purposes. There also are looks at playing it in standard tuning as well as his Buffalo Springfield original of Questions, which was rearranged and added on to Carry On creating the medley we are all familiar with.
Carry On is a Stephen Stills composition that kicked off the CSN&Y Deja Vu album in 1970. It is actually a medley with a rearrangement of an earlier song by Stills: Question, which appeared on the last Buffalo Springfield album in 1968.
The acoustic opening and main guitar parts are played in a modal tuning that Stills used often, and at various pitches. It consists of only roots and fifths and in this lesson is done as D-A-D-D-A-D, although the original was done 1/2 step higher at Eb.
The lesson also covers the way they typically played it live, in the key of E and in standard tuning. There is also a short look at the Buffalo Springfield version in D, technically D Dorian.
