5 OPEN E Tuning Songs You Should Know - BEGINNER TO ADVANCED!
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Published 2024-04-22
The video script introduces five songs that can be played on acoustic guitar in open E tuning. It provides instructions on how to tune the guitar and play each song, along with strumming patterns and chord shapes. The songs include "Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman, "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell, "Don't it Always Seem to Go" by Joni Mitchell, "Can't Always Get What You Want" by The Rolling Stones, and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" by The Rolling Stones.
00:00 - Video overview
00:54 - Tune to Open E tuning from standard
02:12 - Something in the Air
05:06 - Big Yellow Taxi
09:50 - Can’t Always Get What You Want
13:29 - Jumpin Jack Flash
18:47 - Gimme Shelter
21:49 - Where to go from here
Looking into how to tune the guitar to Open E and how the tuning offers advantages for playing the guitar, such as making bar chords easier & providing unique chord shapes.
"Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman is a great song for beginners in open E tuning, with simple chords and a catchy strumming pattern.
"Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell introduces barre chords in open E tuning, allowing beginners to practice this technique as it just uses 1 finger!
"Can't Always Get What You Want" by The Rolling Stones uses capo, giving players the opportunity to experiment with different sounds but the shapes are all the same
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" by The Rolling Stones is a great intermediate challenge as the barring still uses just 1 finger for the chords but the other fingers are needed for quite big stretches
"Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones is an awesome way to end this video as it really showcases open E tuning & it's distinct sound!
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All Comments (21)
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First song that came to my mind was "She Talks To Angels" by The Black Crowes.
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Bro She Talks to Angels is in Open E. Can't believe you didn't include it.
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Acoustic guitars make every song sound so much better, beautiful!!
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I tuned one of my guitars to Open E to play "Memo from Turner" and just when I'm looking for more songs in that tuning, I come across your video! Awesome! Many thanks!
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I think i read somewhere, Joni had suffered Polio as a child and had dexterity problems. So this was the easiest way to play her chords. Pretty genius.
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Cool stuff Andy, I’ll have to give open E a go…I’m only a year and a half into my guitar journey at age 67 and you have been instrumental (pun intended) to that journey. Thanks so much!
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It’s fun to enjoy open tuning. So many more songs to play and sing!
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Lost in the Supermarket by The Clash is played (by Mick Jones, at least) in open E, the only time the band ever used an alternate tuning.
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Awesome stuff ,explained and shown really well Andy . Cheers
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Great acoustic for Gimme Shelter. Dylan's Blood on the Tracks has a lot of Open E..
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I've been learning precession stuff, and I've seen a lot with open D. I'm working on technique and totally appreciative of your videos. I'm definitely going to get into this soon
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Keith Richards really is a genius..
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What a talent well done
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Thanks Andy. Can we tune to open D, then capo on fret 2? Less tension on strings
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I'll have to wait a little while on this Andy, you're a genius though, thank you
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Excellent. Just found your channel
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Andy - thankyou. I love your plectrum technique (great control). Have you a video where you showcase your right hand? Thank you 👍
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Hi Andy ….I’ve started playing guitar since January, your videos are brilliant…would you do Neil youngs harvest moon ?
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Well Done. Subbed. .... Cant belive you didn't do "She Talks to Angels" ... but the 60's song is adorable.
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Need tutorial for Foo Fighters "Rope".
