This was one of the first songs I tried to learn, and initially I was really imitated by the finger picking and gave up. After a year of playing I've come back and have learned most of the song - thank you for the simple and straight forward instructions! I'm surprised by how easy it is once you get the finger picking style down.
I absolutely love the way you teach this song. I am a intermediate guitar player who has never done any finger picking at all and in just 1 week I find myself playing one of my all time favorite songs. I can't thank you enough for showing me just how easy this song really is. I hope to learn more songs from you
@@elijahmonn3757 yes I did.. I enjoyed learning this one.I learnt a few more though I dont practice as much as I used to do. I like writing my own stuff as a hobby :)
i started playing guitar a little over a week ago. This is the second song Im learning and the first finger picking one. Thank you for making it so easy to follow, and for going through what each chord is so Im not opening 8 tabs trying to look up A minor and G and what on earth is a first inversion. You made learning the song easy
Great! Thank you very much! I struggled too long to find a decent tab for this song and you made it really easy and comprehensive for someone with basic guitar skills! Thank you! 😎
Wow! I really like your style of teaching. It sounds just the way Kansas plays it. All it took me to learn was to practice, practice, practice. Then one day I picked up my guitar and "WOW" I did it. But I still need to practice more. Thanks for sharing.
For those of you complaining about using your thumb for F# in this song.....stop complaining and just do it...m cuz I know that just like anything else challenging, advanced guitar techniques like this one feels weird, uncomfortable, and hard to do at first. But with persistence it get easier and eventually become second nature. ...and being comfortable using your thumb for the low E string come in handy alot and is alot of fun....it opens your playing to a whole new level of skill. If you ever even dream of being able to one day play like hendrix, clapton, Jimmy page, or even like modern blues such as Kenny Wayne shepherd you must first learn to use your thumb! It's nothing more than a more advanced n fancy way of playing bar chords that allows you to easily pull off beautiful hard blues n rock riffs n solos and easier to make fast transgressions between harder bar chords in advanced songs like "little wing", "under the bridge", and thousands of more beautiful songs we all love but find out quick are extremely hard to play! Lol so yall keep practicing and don't give up! Yall remember how hard and intimidating it was when you first tried to stay learning to play normal bar chords? ? With alot of practice that too became easy and second nature. Again using the thumb is just an advanced way of playing bar chords that makes the more challenging songs easier to play. So stick with it and don't give up! I promise before long you will love and prefer and prefer using your thumb for F Shaped kind of chords....
James Simon when i first started using my thumb a few months ago i thought it was impossibly uncomfortable and gave up for a month or two. Came back to it to learn under the bridge and found it to be the easiest thing
+James Simon It's pretty easy though. I got that technique down like in two weeks. Compared to barre chord or learning modes, the thumb technique is a cake walk
While it’s true that some of those guitar legends used their thumbs, using thumbs generally promotes poor form and makes it harder to play barre chords. In this context, any of the other fingers could have been used just as easily.
this helped me so much, now I have a lot of practice to do, ive got the intro down pretty well, got the verse down alright, need a lot of practice on the chorus, got the bridge down pretty well, its mostly just order that I need to practice
I'vs seen very few guitar lesson videos but out of the very few that I'vs seen. Part one and two of your dust in the wind are the best. I have looked over you channel and love your song selection.
I love that thumb wrapping, and live in it! Once I started using it for F it opened up the neck for me because I could never work up the C and F patterns easily before. I know it's not "by the book" but hell, if it works for ya, go for it I say. :-)Great lesson btw, thanks
Thank you sir for this. This has been one of my favorite songs when i was learning guitar unfortunately resources back then is not as it is now. Now I have finally learned how to play it.
Probably the best youtube guitar lessons I have found! Other than marty schwartz. Awesome video, but I do play a couple of the chords differently. And again thanks for the video!
Very, very, very, very awesome! Thanks, Dude! Really righteous stuff. AND, I may have missed it, but it kind of looks like you did each video in one take. (?!) Maybe not, but, either way, THANKS!
If you have trouble with the bridge where you put the middle finger on the second string of third fret, you can just bar the third fret and it works fine.
Really thanks a bunch for this lesson...I love this song alot, so glad that I can play it now, learned it in like a day! really thanks alot for this lesson
Carl, great video. Thing I want to know is, how did you get your pinky finger to grow to be as long as your others. That would really help me out, thanks.
It's kind of an old school/classical way of thinking though. If you go to play a regular D chord, you would normally play it with the 1st 2nd and 3rd fingers, and then if you want the F# bass note, you simply put your thumb there. But your way, you have to actually rearrange your fingers and now you're using all 4 fingers, so you can't add any embellishments, such as sus4. There is a reason that jazz players play with their thumb, and it's because of the freedom to improvise chordally.
I JUST started learning guitar and my sons (13 and 10) are helping me along. This song is one that is a goal of mine to learn to play. Of the tutorials I've seen on this topic, yours excels in execution and instructional value. I'll be signing up on your web site soon!
D/F# Part is much easier with 1st Finger on E, 2nd on G and 3rd on B. Then to the open G just move 1st and 2nd or even only 2nd Finger to E 3rd fret as you don’t need the high e string for this part.
My pinky just can't do that thing.... it just physically can't stretch and reach to the 6th string while my ring finger is pressing another string... I hope practice can make it better... but I don't know. Do you have any advice on training pinky?
Nancy try lowering your thumb at the back of the neck. Arch your wrist. This may help. But I’m sure 4years on and you now have it sorted. The thumb in a lower position will give you a little more reach
The "Dust in the Wind" Part is directly at the beginning of this Video. The Hammer on and gripping the E string with the thumb. You can see playing Carl the whole song here to have a look by yourself: th-cam.com/video/E90uW9j1Aqo/w-d-xo.html
I just learned it and love it! But what you call Bridge it does not have the same picking pattern what plays all the time from the beginning on. It is really similar but a little bit different. Rhythm change a bit as well. But it is easy to find it out what that is and sounds also better that way. Thank you so much for your work. Great job anyway.
I watched marty music's video and he simpply plays the verse with one finger, Im contemplating whether to ditch that and learn this as this seems better,
One question, how do you keep that bassline going without accidentally hitting the string you just strung? i always touch the string above the one im playing, demping the note.
problem is my left thumb is double jointed so i can't actually wrap my thumb around the neck without twisting my whole hand sideways. so maybe you can show both ways in your later videos for people like me? would be a real help.
tip for those who don't want to do that crazy a minor chord with pinky g base... use your ring finger for the g and play an am7, hard to hear the difference
okay so...it goes, intro, verse, verse, chorus, verse, chorus (stop @ G b4 the hammer down), bridge, intro, chorus twice as long, outro.....is that the play order? lol
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I agree it can be uncomfortable for some people, but I was just showing the actual fingering that Kansas uses. Play it whatever way you want..
Amen
intro
verse
chorus
verse
chorus ½
bridge / solo
intro / solo
verse
chorus 4x
outro
Thx
Ty
learned the whole song in less then a week. Your a great teacher bro
my pinky no likey
I've been practising this song for about 3 months now and that G to the Am with the pinkey kills me.
Try the thumb, that's what I do. Easy
This was one of the first songs I tried to learn, and initially I was really imitated by the finger picking and gave up. After a year of playing I've come back and have learned most of the song - thank you for the simple and straight forward instructions! I'm surprised by how easy it is once you get the finger picking style down.
I absolutely love the way you teach this song. I am a intermediate guitar player who has never done any finger picking at all and in just 1 week I find myself playing one of my all time favorite songs. I can't thank you enough for showing me just how easy this song really is. I hope to learn more songs from you
Just finished the first tutorial, I've been learning the guitar for two weeks only and find your lesson very easy to follow Thankyou
Have you continued with guitar , seven years later? Dust in the wind finger picked for your first song was a tall order 😋👍
@@elijahmonn3757 yes I did.. I enjoyed learning this one.I learnt a few more though I dont practice as much as I used to do. I like writing my own stuff as a hobby :)
Here I am another 3 years later, learning this as my first song too! Time is weird.
I have known how to play this song for over twenty years now. This is the first video I have seen that is spot on. Kudos to you sir
One of the greatest teachers, You are.
i started playing guitar a little over a week ago. This is the second song Im learning and the first finger picking one. Thank you for making it so easy to follow, and for going through what each chord is so Im not opening 8 tabs trying to look up A minor and G and what on earth is a first inversion. You made learning the song easy
Thank you, I appreciate your lessons. They are originals and I need the authenticity!
Great! Thank you very much! I struggled too long to find a decent tab for this song and you made it really easy and comprehensive for someone with basic guitar skills! Thank you! 😎
Wow! I really like your style of teaching. It sounds just the way Kansas plays it. All it took me to learn was to practice, practice, practice. Then one day I picked up my guitar and "WOW" I did it. But I still need to practice more. Thanks for sharing.
For those of you complaining about using your thumb for F# in this song.....stop complaining and just do it...m cuz I know that just like anything else challenging, advanced guitar techniques like this one feels weird, uncomfortable, and hard to do at first. But with persistence it get easier and eventually become second nature. ...and being comfortable using your thumb for the low E string come in handy alot and is alot of fun....it opens your playing to a whole new level of skill. If you ever even dream of being able to one day play like hendrix, clapton, Jimmy page, or even like modern blues such as Kenny Wayne shepherd you must first learn to use your thumb! It's nothing more than a more advanced n fancy way of playing bar chords that allows you to easily pull off beautiful hard blues n rock riffs n solos and easier to make fast transgressions between harder bar chords in advanced songs like "little wing", "under the bridge", and thousands of more beautiful songs we all love but find out quick are extremely hard to play! Lol so yall keep practicing and don't give up! Yall remember how hard and intimidating it was when you first tried to stay learning to play normal bar chords? ? With alot of practice that too became easy and second nature. Again using the thumb is just an advanced way of playing bar chords that makes the more challenging songs easier to play. So stick with it and don't give up! I promise before long you will love and prefer and prefer using your thumb for F Shaped kind of chords....
James Simon when i first started using my thumb a few months ago i thought it was impossibly uncomfortable and gave up for a month or two. Came back to it to learn under the bridge and found it to be the easiest thing
+James Simon It's pretty easy though. I got that technique down like in two weeks. Compared to barre chord or learning modes, the thumb technique is a cake walk
+Edgar Arzate Agreed. I"m trying to learn the Sungha Jung solo and the barring is the hardest part.
for me is more comfortable and natural to use my middle finger and them my ring and pinky for the other 2.
While it’s true that some of those guitar legends used their thumbs, using thumbs generally promotes poor form and makes it harder to play barre chords. In this context, any of the other fingers could have been used just as easily.
Such a great teacher
glad to see the channel is back up !!
Just the right amount of playing and talking. Really wonderful stuff. Thx!
this helped me so much, now I have a lot of practice to do, ive got the intro down pretty well, got the verse down alright, need a lot of practice on the chorus, got the bridge down pretty well, its mostly just order that I need to practice
Perfect tutorial! One of my favorite songs and now I can play along to the track :)
I'vs seen very few guitar lesson videos but out of the very few that I'vs seen. Part one and two of your dust in the wind are the best. I have looked over you channel and love your song selection.
Thank you these videos helped me learn my one of my late grandfather’s favorites!
This the song that they thought me in my first classical guitar class excellent exercise so simple but so rigorous awesome song i love it
I love that thumb wrapping, and live in it! Once I started using it for F it opened up the neck for me because I could never work up the C and F patterns easily before. I know it's not "by the book" but hell, if it works for ya, go for it I say. :-)Great lesson btw, thanks
Hey great lesson I was wondering if on the chorus you could sing, I'm getting confused about what chords go where. Thanks
Thank you sir for this. This has been one of my favorite songs when i was learning guitar unfortunately resources back then is not as it is now. Now I have finally learned how to play it.
Excellent and thorough lesson. (now to get up to speed)
Probably the best youtube guitar lessons I have found! Other than marty schwartz. Awesome video, but I do play a couple of the chords differently. And again thanks for the video!
I and a ton of other guitarists use the thumb over technique it has advantages in a lot of situations actually.
Thanks for the lesson. I'm having fun with this one.
Great stuff. Easy to follow. Nice way to learn that Travis pickin´way.
Very, very, very, very awesome! Thanks, Dude! Really righteous stuff. AND, I may have missed it, but it kind of looks like you did each video in one take. (?!) Maybe not, but, either way, THANKS!
If you have trouble with the bridge where you put the middle finger on the second string of third fret, you can just bar the third fret and it works fine.
great lesson, i play some chords with different finger positioning all works well!
Well done, I've been messing with this song for quite a long time, your videos really helped me put it together! Thank you!
This is an excellent tutorial! I give it 10 our of 10
Perfect tutorial, thanks a lot !
I leaned it fully :D finally!!!!
Great Tutorial, first finger picking song for me thanks a whole man!
The transition to the next chord and this chord itself are made easier by your suggestion.
You are a musical genius!
Just beautiful,lovely sound off the guitar,i must learn this
I'm getting there. This really helps and I'm on your website now too.
Really thanks a bunch for this lesson...I love this song alot, so glad that I can play it now, learned it in like a day! really thanks alot for this lesson
Your a good teacher.
Heaps of thanksssss❤
Carl, great video. Thing I want to know is, how did you get your pinky finger to grow to be as long as your others. That would really help me out, thanks.
Guess I hit the Kansas genetic lottery because my thumb works and ya boi's pinky is long enough
Best video. Thank you
It's kind of an old school/classical way of thinking though. If you go to play a regular D chord, you would normally play it with the 1st 2nd and 3rd fingers, and then if you want the F# bass note, you simply put your thumb there. But your way, you have to actually rearrange your fingers and now you're using all 4 fingers, so you can't add any embellishments, such as sus4. There is a reason that jazz players play with their thumb, and it's because of the freedom to improvise chordally.
Another great tut!
job well done..nice tutorial...absulutely thumbs up bro
For the bridge, I have to mini-barre on the third fret. My fingers won't maneuver like yours for that one!
I JUST started learning guitar and my sons (13 and 10) are helping me along. This song is one that is a goal of mine to learn to play. Of the tutorials I've seen on this topic, yours excels in execution and instructional value. I'll be signing up on your web site soon!
7 years later, did you learn to play it?
@@elijahmonn3757 Unfortunately, no.
I can finally say I know how to play dust in the wind! :)
D/F# Part is much easier with 1st Finger on E, 2nd on G and 3rd on B. Then to the open G just move 1st and 2nd or even only 2nd Finger to E 3rd fret as you don’t need the high e string for this part.
My pinky just can't do that thing.... it just physically can't stretch and reach to the 6th string while my ring finger is pressing another string... I hope practice can make it better... but I don't know. Do you have any advice on training pinky?
Try try and try harder... Sorry mate
Nancy try lowering your thumb at the back of the neck. Arch your wrist. This may help. But I’m sure 4years on and you now have it sorted. The thumb in a lower position will give you a little more reach
Thank you so much fot the great lesson!!!
3:40
4:26 bridge
Excellent
Your fingers are so long. Perfect for guitar or piano. 👍
for the part with the pinky, I use my thumb instead, a bit stretchy, but find it easier...
Thank you man ! ! ! You rock ! ! !
Hey awesome tutorial thanks a lot !!! could you please play and post the whole song? 🙏🙏🙏
th-cam.com/video/E90uW9j1Aqo/w-d-xo.html
I wish i would have started earlier than in the age of 42 playing guitar. My brain cracked while keeping it all in mind. :D
8:49
is dust in the wind?
The "Dust in the Wind" Part is directly at the beginning of this Video. The Hammer on and gripping the E string with the thumb. You can see playing Carl the whole song here to have a look by yourself: th-cam.com/video/E90uW9j1Aqo/w-d-xo.html
I just learned it and love it! But what you call Bridge it does not have the same picking pattern what plays all the time from the beginning on. It is really similar but a little bit different. Rhythm change a bit as well. But it is easy to find it out what that is and sounds also better that way.
Thank you so much for your work. Great job anyway.
Pál Szepesi yup. It does change.
I watched marty music's video and he simpply plays the verse with one finger, Im contemplating whether to ditch that and learn this as this seems better,
Thank you so much sir. I only learned the intro in my first year in guitar class but years later I finally have the chance to learn the rest ^^
And also I use my 1st finger for that one chord you told us to use our thumb cx it's not hard it's just natural for me to do it
Thank you for a great lesson!
its deff helped me im just a pickin fool now!!! THANKS
Thanks for putting this up on TH-cam... It's helped me a ton! Do you happen to have a printable tab/lyrics with chord progression sheet?
great lesson tank you man
i wonder how you will explain an address! So complicated when it's so easy to learn and teach!!
thanks so much for your lessons!! your acoustic guitar sounds great - what model is it? THX
hey what should i do if my pinky cant reach the 6th string in am/g even my thumb i tried too but the string buzzes and it hurts :(
@Dravenstars Sweet, thanks a bunch man!!
Great! Thanks again.
For me its the part where the pinky comes in.
is it easier for u now? lol
You ROCK , Keep up the good work !!
One question, how do you keep that bassline going without accidentally hitting the string you just strung? i always touch the string above the one im playing, demping the note.
Pinky trick was life changing haha
Brilliant, man! Thank you, your vid is helping me a lot... I'm working on it :-)
Preety Cool mate..PReety cool
problem is my left thumb is double jointed so i can't actually wrap my thumb around the neck without twisting my whole hand sideways. so maybe you can show both ways in your later videos for people like me? would be a real help.
Thank youu
Thank u sooo much
AMAZING MEN!!!!!! I WILL SUBSCRIBE :)
This is what i'm wondering as well.
Part 1 of this lesson = 1.9M views - Part 2 = 327K views... I don't understand TH-cam
cause most people give up after being unable to do the intro obviously
Man, fuck that thumb F sharp.I did it with my index and I am fast enough to change to G LOL.
the bridge gets trricky. I either can't normally press the string, or i demp a string. between a rock and a hard place.
I think the thumb in F # can be change by index finger cause it's so difficult for me
tip for those who don't want to do that crazy a minor chord with pinky g base... use your ring finger for the g and play an am7, hard to hear the difference
Great lesson. Now I have to to practice and practice and.........
am with g in the base is so difficult :(
Make sure the guitar is parallel to your body. It makes a big difference.
@@ravkenvega can you explain this? If guitar is parralel with my body doesnt that mean the guitar is vertical ?
Use da thumb
im just 11 years old and my pinky is too short to do the A minor with G note bass
i cant tell if your doing the little parts twice in the song or you do it twice to make sure we see it..
pre-watching this after havint learnt part 1 and i already know my pinky aint long enough
okay so...it goes, intro, verse, verse, chorus, verse, chorus (stop @ G b4 the hammer down), bridge, intro, chorus twice as long, outro.....is that the play order? lol
My pinky is so short. I decided to keep that somewhere in bridge part as Am because it still sounds fine tho. 😂
Not into the thumb thing but great tutorial overall