Carry Onby Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

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.

There is also an audio file in the key of D for the student to download and play along with.