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How and When to Use a Capo

The Capo Is a clamp which you place across your Guitar strings in the same way your finger does in a Barre Chord.  It is traditionally made of Metal or Rubber that acts like an Elastic band or Clamp.

The cheapest kind of capo is essentially an elastic band attached to a strip of rubber. It’s probably best to buy a few at a time because they can get stolen and mislaid, or simply wear down.  The great thing is that you can carry it in your pocket all the time, and when you need to you can swiftly put it on your guitar when it is needed.

If you are reading this then you are most likely wondering how the notes are changed by a capo on the guitar. The capo raises the key you are playing in without you having to learn even more chords or to get a different arrangement of the song in another key.

Let’s say you are playing a song in G with the chords G, C, and D. If you put the capo on the second fret the song would now be in the key of A with the chords A, D and E.

Essentially all your chord shapes are unchanged with the capo but if you have the capo on the second fret, the sound is a half note higher than the guitar with no the capo. So it’s really just like placing a barre across the strings with your index finger except for that with the capo your index finger is now free to play notes.

Another frequent question I get about the capo is whether it is possible to barre only some of the strings. The answer is yes, you can buy capos to use on the third, fourth and fifth strings or the second, third and fourth strings. Using this kind of capo is just a different way of producing and effect like an alternate tuning.

Guitarists who are not using the capo as a way of altering key for a singer sometimes use a capo to vary the pitch of the guitar simply to provide variety in their guitar’s sound. If you play a few songs with no the capo and some songs with the capo at the third fret and some with the capo at the fifth or the seventh fret your audience is not so likely to let your music fade into the background. A recognized instance of this is George Harrison’s use of the capo at the seventh fret on If I Needed Someone and Here Comes The Sun.

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