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Black Crows - She Talks to Angels
ZZ Top - Just Got Paid
Allman Bros Band - Little Martha
Allman Bros Band - Statesboro Blues
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Dylan - Shelter from the Storm (check out the live version)
Dylan - Simple Twist of Fate
Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash (this is actually a weird tuning if you try to play along to the original studio version it is not exactly E - think its slightly flat or sharp - can't remember which) but it's close enough to Open E)

Open G is a great tuning too.. lots of Zeppelin and Stones songs like: That's the way, Kashmir, Gimme Shelter... fun times]]> Guitar Players Discussion davotone https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-388849 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-387454 Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:48:00 +0000
but yeah, it's a great place to start.

playing in open d with a capo on the second is a better idea than playing in open e, because there is less string tension, therefore less likelihood that you'll break a string. Plus there are so many fun songs in D, that it just gives you sooo many more options! Personally, I don;t know why, but even when I play in natural tuning (cMaj scale) I tune a whole step down to D and just insert capo when needed. I enjoy the throatier, lower tones. Plus my voice sucks in E standard, Either Eb or D works better for my dead-ass voice!]]> Guitar Players Discussion costahilbert https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-387454 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-387103 Tue, 24 May 2016 17:42:23 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion rosbro09 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-387103 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150912 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:33:01 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion U2Bono269 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150912 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150810 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:38:26 +0000
M]]> Guitar Players Discussion MattyPretends116 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150810 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150796 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:59:10 +0000
Any tune you can do in one, you can figure out a way to do in the other, actually, and it's ridiculously easy to do most things that you learn in G in D by moving the whole thing over one string to the bass side. That opens up a new string tuned to the root note, and often you may want to move some notes over there.

There are just some things that sound better or play more easily with the outside strings tuned to the fifth, and some work better with them tuned to the root.]]> Guitar Players Discussion Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150796 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150718 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:33:19 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion teleplayer324 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150718 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150707 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:08:14 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150707 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150678 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:33:45 +0000 Galadrielle Allman, the claimant..? That's probably it... :)]]> Guitar Players Discussion yoyo286 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150678 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150675 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:31:43 +0000
(I do believe it's credited to Gregg Allman on the CD I have, though.) Hmm...

Taken from the US Copyright Office:
RE-834-565 (COHM)
Title: Little Martha. m Duane Allman (Howard Duane Allman)
Claimant: Galadrielle Allman (C)
Effective Registration Date: 25Sep00
Original Registration Date: 19Apr72;
Original Registration Number: EU327539.
Original Class: E

See for yourself, go here: http://www.copyright.gov/records/cohm.html

Click on the registration button, and type in RE-834-565 (Or just do a search for "Little Martha", and find it)...

Possibly the US Copyright Office is wrong...?!?! :shock: :D]]> Guitar Players Discussion yoyo286 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/open-e-acoustic-songs/paged/3/#post-150675