I’ve always loved the lyrical depth of Joni’s songwriting. And BOTH SIDES NOW has been my number one pick from all her great pieces.
Over the course of about six weeks, I’ve worked out each phrase of the song in the context of lessons with one of my long time students. It’s been a fun process and, in fact, was fluid in that I had to tab everything out in order to keep myself from playing it differently each week. But that process gave me a lot of different ways to figure out one riddle after another - and to experiment with combining her vocal lines with a mostly authentic harmonization. Well, almost that.