Certainly above where I am now, BUT the VERY BEST instructional guitar video I've ever seen! ... and played so well that it does justice to one of the greatest guitarists in my opinion that unfortunately lived much too short a life. Thanks much Shawn.

The BEST tutorial EVER!! Thankyou! You saved my bacon, I had to learn this as a request for a restaurant gig. Keep up the excellent work, you are a fabulous teacher.

This song always makes me think of water flowing down a rocky mountain stream. Thanks for sharing!

Spot on! You are a very excellent instructor, Shawn.

GREAT JOB!!!!Thank you so much for sharing that with all of us!

I like this version because it sounds most like the original track without a bunch of added fluff. The tutorial is easy to follow. Thanks for posting!

My favorite acoustic piece. Thanks for consolidating both parts, and your instruction was perfect and easy to understand. Now to perfect it over time, as my forte is rhythm strumming with a pick rather than finger-picking - but this is achievable now thanks to you!

Thank you so much, I learned this in the late 70s and knew I was missing key parts. You’ve unlocked it for me.. beautiful playing!!!

9:29 That pinky on 9th fret, middle finger on 7th fret is much easier if you just take your barre finger off and play 2nd and 3rd strings open. Exact same notes....10x easier.

Great job Shawn... I had played this for many years and saw you making interlude sound " Mo Betta", … @ 71 and 1/2 , never too old to let the old dog , learn new tricks.. thanks again!!!

Love hearing other people play great songs like this so well

Just thought of your version of this song and wanted to say thanks. I love the song, loved learning from you. I learned this 2013. Great solo version. Thanks again in 2018

Great version and tutorial. I have always wanted to play this. Thanks for taking the time to post it.

as was said already thank you Shawn !!I haven't been able to find anyone doing the emphasis on the picking hand!

Fantastic lesson, working on this a little every morning. Will eventually get it down pat thanks to you!

Nice job, Shawn! This is the best Little Martha lesson on the web, and thankfully tailored to experienced players.

You are a gifted teacher. And a very good picker! Thanks

Many thanks for posting this excellent and very clear lesson - I'm getting there slowly but surely! 'Little Martha' proves what a tragic loss Duane Allman was and you wonder what he would have achieved if he had lived.

Thanks so much for the video. You are the best guitar teacher that I ever had!

Smile - well done - that interlude section has had me baffled - appreciate it!

I really enjoyed your video. Great tutorial for sure. Thanks for taking the time to make the video and sharing it. Your explanation of the song is perfect to say the least!!

Excellent! Hope I can get it right! You did a great job combining two guitars into one!

I get more fluid and musical every time i review this video again and then have at it. Great job

Been wanting to learn this for years and at least I can follow you. Whew. Working on it!!

Didn't think I would get this one, but your great teaching did it for me. Still struggling with those 5th fret changes though. Thanks Shawn.

I learned this after years of trying to get around to it from you pal,,, and a great song and lesson it was. Thanks

Nice job man!! Thanks a million for the lesson!! I just played this until my hands gave out! Love it!

Perfect. Thanks for combiining the two parts!

Thank you so much. I've been studying it for days. Thank you. Thank you.

A brilliant rendition,and a great lesson.

Shawn, This is such a great instructional video. Just an awesome job! You play it so well too. Thanks for posting!! Mark

Thank-you! My favorite song to learn

Thank you for the post. I have been playing with Vestapol tuning and found this.

Terrific lesson on a beautiful song. Thank you and well done.

Just beautiful!!!

Excellent lesson, thank you.

thank you so much man! I learned the song note by note and it sounds great!

Thanks very much for sharing that Shawn!

what an excellent teaching job you did for me. thanks Shawn. I sound like you do ,and Dickey Betts. Spot on.

Well done, sir! Very well done!

Great lesson, took me about a month to learn but I finally got it sounding decent. Definitely one of the hardest songs I know, but im glad I have it now. Props to you man!

great job combining both parts and making it intuitive.

Great Lesson! You do a great job at explaining the durations of the notes, hammer ons, and pull offs. 😁

Excellent lesson. You are a great teacher.

that is a sweet version of Little Martha.. thanks for sharing.

Really enjoyed this lesson!

That sounds GREAT!

Right on was trying to learn it in standard tuning thanks

So smooth man.. Brill!!!

Great lesson - thanks so much!

Great lesson Thank you so much! this will take me a while to learn ,nice clear video as well. Rook

most exultante . i play this exactly as you do for the most part of this song though i use slight varying finger positions for the slides hammers and pulls, capo 2nd fret. i got the arrangement from the leo kottke take of this tune out of the guitar techniques magazine years ago, late 90's. and used that arrangement as a template to figure out the greg and dicky original. and of course youtube has helped no end with varying brews and miss hearings by others and i myself included . a few years back when i was nerding this tune big time, trying to figure the dicky betts flavoure hidden within the tune. and he is there in the mix. i came to realise while i jammed along chuffed with myself as i stepped into each footprint just copycating who's playing the dobro?, and how many comps are spliced into the mix-down. damn genius.

Beautiful job......DA would be proud.....

Thanx. But, for the benefit of those who do not use the open tuning, lets mention that it can easily be performed in standard tuning as well: start with the "open" G major, no barring, high E string pressed with pinky and low E string pressed with ringer, both on a 3d fret, middle finger on a 5th string/second fret; from that position you add a second string/1st fret with your index, then the pinky goes to the third fret/second string...followed by "open" D major7 etc. (other "details" will come "naturally" if you just follow the melody in your mind). Second part starts with the bar on a 5th fret and is done within A major "position" (your left hand's index keeps pressing all strings on 5th fret), your pinky, middle and ringer hammer-on 6th,7th and 8th fret along the first 3 strings (E, B, G) while the thumbs pics 5th and 4th... These are only rough directions, guidelines, not the thorough explanations, sorry...The ending basically consists of C major/D major/G major and the harmonics (known as "flageolets" in French) played on the 12th fret. Do a bit of experimentation, and you'll make it.

Awesome.Thank you so much. Excellent lesson on a song Duane gave us before he left.

This was really well done. I'd like to just sit across from you, guitar to guitar, for a few hours.

lesson is great but i also love the way you play with such dynamic range - really intensified the song

Awesome job Shawn I love playing Dickie's part with this Best version on the net brother

This sounds great man. And I love your Guild. I have a D55 and its just so sweet.

Thank you! Have been wanting to play that since the 7Os.

Friggin awesome. Thank you.

Great post. I'd been trying to play this without the open E tuning. No wonder I couldn't get it. Thanks.

thanks for sharing, you made an old woman very happy at the end

Beautiful! Thank you!!!

Thank you so much for sharing this lesson. By the way, that guild sounds awesome. Cheers

Wow this was 8 years ago? Goes to show ya how timeless great music is! Great Instructional video here. I'll never get the finger strumming right, cut my right arm open back in 79. It severed my ulnar nerve (funny bone). After a tendon transfer to my right hand, physical therapy only did so much. My last 2 fingers on my right hand are basically just for looks, can't open or close them much. But I could still wing it. I just gotta make myself set down and watch this over and over again each day. I'll pick it up fairly quickly for a novice. I've just been a hack mostly but enjoy playing. I really love this instrumental, it's beautiful. To learn this would be a new level for me. Thanks much for taking the time to do this for us. Today is Thanksgiving 2020. Hope this finds you well 8 years later, and in the middle of the most trying times of our lives. Be safe and well..

I think you got the tab from Guitar World magazine 25 years ago just like I did!

Amazing rendition...wouldn't know it wasn't Duane Allman until, literally, the last two notes which Duane played as sort of a cookoo sound. Additionally, the lesson itself is very good. Prompted me to subscribe immediately.

Nice job man! Smooth!

Gorgeous axe

Trying to understand open tuning is like learning to play all over again. Great lesson thanks.

Yoooo I really like your video!

great lesson man thanks a lot

Nice! THANKS for lesson!

Great lesson, not an easy song to teach.

Thank you!

oh thank you so much!

excellent..!!

Very close interpretration amazing Duane Allman wrote this song when he was so young I think 23.Very hard to capture both guitars in one, its done well here.I have been trying on and off for years trying all sorts of different ways to satisfy myself mostly to play this piece with one guitar. Playing it harmonically and musically close is difficult with one instrument.I think its is acheived much easier with two guitars like they did originally on the studio recording.To get the same harmonic tones with one guitar is a challenge but doable as interpretated here.I think Duane used a low action hand fingered Dobro for this piece but not sure sounds like it on the intro.Anyway nice job here well played...... Glenn P. in N.Y.

That extension to the A at 9:32 - I find it easier to just lift all my fingers off and just pluck the open 2nd and 3rd strings. Faster as well.

thank you..

thanks for the refresher. use to play this song all the time, got the tab out of a mag.,same arrangement. but its not the D string anymore if you tune it up to E, i'm confused enough already without stiken the seventh into the mix

Great solo guitar version! Dickey Betts played along in this song also? Nice full sound.

if i have a favorite song this is it! i prefer to tune to open D and capo on the 2nd fret, less strain on the B string. it sounds like Duane himself taught you this!

The playing is excellent, however it is sometimes difficult to see where your fingers are and you don't always designate certain strings, fingers, and frets. I would suggest putting a fretboard in the corner of the screen that simultaneously shows tab when you play

I play it in regular tuning. This guy is top notch.

is there a printed tab for this? I can't decipher the last section hammer ons

I need to use my thumb on that 5 fret A Barre; my index can't hold them all down clean at once.

This is why I could never figure it out decades ago because listening to the REAL ALBUM - it was impossible to determine the tuning wasn't standard

20:24

Thanks Sean, any pointers for playing that stretch at 10:24. Any help is greatly appreciate d.

Duane Amund ? You're not from Macon are ya? :D Just pickin atcha good lesson

dont tune up. tune down to open d and use capo. good lesson, thanks.

I am not clear on how Duane played this. Did he use open D tuning, with capo on first fret, or did he do open E tuning down a half step to an open Eb tuning?

Is there a tab available?

Any tips on nailing the 5th fret bar section?

Duane played it in open D

Is that anopen tuning?

Who is Gregg Almond?

Duane Amen?