PAGE 1 Dust in the Wind Music by Kansas Stored on this Disk as a MIDI File Format 1 Arranged for MIDI by Kevan R.Craft & Gareth R.Craft (c) 1993 MIDICraft Compositions and Arrangements At the time of their greatest success, this American rock band consisted of Phil Ehart, Dave Hope, Kerry Livgren, Robbie Steinhardt, Steve Walsh and Rich Williams. Incommon with another place named group 'Boston', 'Kansas' were one of a wave of unchallenging US rock bands who arrived on American FM airwaves during the mid to late Seventies. While Britian was experiencing the upheavels of the New Wave/Punk explosion, America was serving up a carefully crafted genre that combined old wave rock instrumentation and rhythym with pop harmonies and melodies. Acts like 'Foreigner', 'Styx' and 'Journey' fell into this category also. Kansas were formed in 1972 and released their eponymouse debut LP in 1974. The Album that brought them major prominence was 'Leftoverture', which reached No.5 in the US Charts in April 1977; it was boosted by its dynamic opening track 'Carry On Wayward Son' which climbed to No.11 on the singles list. The next album 'Point of no Return' was another US top 10 item, the band's biggest and finest single, the million selling melancholy, philosophising ballad 'Dust in the Wind'. During the Eighties Kansas' career went through a long period of stagnation and after a break-up were seen to re-assemble with a new producer and were planning a new album. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this simple rendition of Kansas' 'Dust in the Wind', I particularly like this song because the Kansas vocalist, Steve Walsh has an amazing voice, which when singing 'Dust in the Wind' communicates as simply wonderful! Lot of soul man! 'Dust in the Wind' can be found on these recordings:- 12 inch Singles Fight Fire with Fire (12 inch EP) EPIC/Sept 85/Del 86 TA 3696 Album Point of no Retrun CD C.B.S. /July 89 CD 32361 Two for the Show Album KIRSHNER(USA)/Del Feb 1984 KIR 88228 PAGE 2 Dust in the Wind Words and Music by Kansas I close my eyes Only for a moment and the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes a curiosity Dust in the Wind All they are is Dust in the Wind Same old song Just a drop of water in an endless sea All we do Crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see Dust in the Wind All we are is Dust in the Wind INSTRUMENT BREAK/SOLO Don't hang on Nothing lasts for ever but the earth and sky It slips away An' all you body will wonder a minute by Dust in the Wind All we are is Dust in the Wind All we are is Dust in the Wind All we are is Dust in the Wind Everything is Dust in the Wind Everything is Dust in the Wind Everything is Dust in the Wind More Text below! PAGE 3 Configure your Sequencer and or MIDI/Synth set up as follows:- Sequencer set up for MIDI MIDI set up for generic MIDI file format 1 ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | SEQ No. | MIDI CHANNEL | SEQUENCE NAME | PAN | |___________|________________|_____________________________|_________| | | | | | | 3 | 3 | Acoustic Guitar | Centre | | 4 | 4 | Acoustic Guitar (bass prt)| Centre | | 5 | 5 | Violin | Right | | 6 | 6 | Violin | Left | | 7 | 7 | Acoustic Piano | Centre | | | | | | | | | | | |___________|________________|_____________________________|_________| | | | Tempo = 90 Time Signature = 4/4 Song Length = 72 bars | | Running Time of Song = 3 min 10 Secs approx | |____________________________________________________________________| MIDICraft Compositions & Arrangements Kevan R.Craft & Gareth R.Craft 12 Mount Road Halton Runcorn Cheshire. WA7 2BH. England. U.K. Tel: +44 0928 563762