Capo!

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Hi. I bought a capo this weekend, because there was this song that I just couldn't do any other way. While I was noodling away afterward with the capo on, another song surfaced which I could play a touch more quickly than I could've otherwise because of the capo, and the sound was a bit mandolinish, which was different and cool. I never thought of a capo as a songwriting tool, but there you have it.

Oh, the capo was a bird of paradise - works good so far.
 
Dobro, I love doing that....I like to take a part that Ive recorded in, say, D and then do an overdub playing in G with the capo at the 7th fret.....

For songwriting, different tunings always do it for me also...or just picking up an instrument that isnt my main....or a different effect I dont use often....If you pick up your main guitar and dial in your same old sound, you tend to play the same old chords and progressions you always do.....
 
Gidge, you've got something there.......about ten years ago, all I played were strats, and always ended up sounding like Buddy Guy or Stevie---there are worse people to sound like---and then I bought my first vintage hollow body and a whole new world of sounds, tones,playing styles and creativity opened up to me. Which led to buying an archtop and then an old solid wood flat top. I just recently picked up a '70 Tele and I'm realy getting into honky tonk Tele twang stuff......Any way to some it all up, playing different instruments other than you your main guitar can lead you down creative paths you didn't think were there. I've grown from electric blues, to rock-a-billy, to jazz, to honkey tonkin', and now I'm finding out just how good of musician you need to be to even get started picking lead guitar parts in Bluegrass. Oh yeah this post was about capos..........you need one in every guitar case.
 
The capo changed my life, I've written the most beautiful pieces of work with it and I'm never giving it up, never.
 
I wouldn't think of going to do a solo spot without a capo or two in me pocketses . . .
 
The capo is one of the bets songwriting tools. When I write I have primarily my acoustic guitar, a piece of paper, a pencil, plectrum and capo.

Oh, I nearly forgot; a bottle of whisky, few joints.........
 
grin

Having demonstrated with flair that they are not going to benefit from this idea, the cheap seats continue to be the cheap seats.
 
huh? im not sure i catch that...but i'm slow today....maybe ill get it tonight.


Nashville Tuning with a capo!

H2H
 
The Eagles played Hotel California , guitar fretted 7th fret right??
There u go.
 
Put the capo at the 5th fret,play a D chord and sing
"little darlin',its been a long cold lonely winter..."

Tom
 
yeah, the capo's good for breaking out of a rut. It's not that great for power chorders like me, but, you'll find new arpeggios and start playing in different keys. my favorite positions are 1st fret, gives some of your older material a little extra flavor. and 5th fret for writing new material.

I thought they should start making 25 fret guitars with the position markers set one fret up so you can uncapo for E flat tuning and play with normal fret positions in standard tuning.

they also make a drop d tuning, and a double drop d capo's

try a slide too, might not be a songwriting tool, but it's fun to play around with.

TX
 
Choke your tele at about the 7th fret and do some Albert Collins or your firebird about the same place and imitate Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.
 
Tom Hicks said:
Put the capo at the 5th fret,play a D chord and sing
"little darlin',its been a long cold lonely winter..."

Tom
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You mean capo at the 7th fret don't you?

Here Comes The Sun, do do do do
 
when it comes to capo . . .

I accomodate the voice first - that is my priority - JT and Neil capo alot 'o stuff @ 3rd fret> I gotta go down 1 to e-flat - 2nd fret.

As far as copyin' what other peeps do, that is a different story

I do stones and Beatles, EJ, BJ, Classics 1V, w/o a capo . . .just don't ask why . . .
 
"huh? im not sure i catch that...but i'm slow today....maybe ill get it tonight."

H2H - I'm not sure I get it any more either, although last night with a coupla jugs of beer in me, I thought the posts before mine were tongue in cheek.
 
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