The acoustic guitar remains ... Fsus2 but for the maj7th (E) that appears on the open first string. This starts to hint at shades of Nick Drake, though most of his tunings were altered, rather ...

Ani DiFranco may not have tried every guitar tuning ... resulting in what could be called “open Em7 tuning” (E, B, B, G, B, D). Ex. 3 is reminiscent of this ballad. The guitarist finds ...