need advice on transposing guitar chords

[Direct current]

Playing a little guitar in Church, Lord even Bless me with writing a song. Want to learn more about playing cords and notes but have a disability problem.

Is there a way to transpose a lot of these hard to play chords into something simply to play using a kapo and is there a way to learn to play cords in a progressive way so that I can learn how to switch from one cord to another, learning how to get faster.
God Bless from Direct Current.

 

[Alexrkstr]

This is how it goes half step per half step:

A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G#

ok?

each fret you capo you are increasing one STEP. Example:

if you capo the 1st fret and play an Em you are playing Fm
if you capo the 3rd fret and play an Em you are playing Gm

From this you can use addition and subraction to solve your chord transposing.

Hope it helps

 

[famous beagle]

This is how it goes half step per half step:

A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G#

ok?

each fret you capo you are increasing one STEP. Example:

if you capo the 1st fret and play an Em you are playing Fm
if you capo the 3rd fret and play an Em you are playing Gm

From this you can use addition and subraction to solve your chord transposing.

Hope it helps

I think he meant to say each fret you capo you are increasing one HALF STEP. A STEP (also known as a WHOLE STEP) is the distance of two frets on the guitar. The example he gave (with Fm and Gm) is a whole step (two frets).

Direct Current: If you could be a little more specific as to what chords you'd like to avoid, we'd be happy to help out more.

 

[Purge]

I suppose the easiest way to play would be to tune your guitar to an open minor chord (tune your 5th and 4th strings up one step). This way, all basic chord shapes would only require two fingers to play. You would always barre all 6 strings with your index finger for a minor chord, and if you need to make one a major chord, just add your middle finger to the next fret up on the 3rd string.

 

[Alexrkstr]

Yes yeS yes

I did mean HALF A STEP! thanks for the correction

Alex