How many of you use a Capo?

I still won't alter tune like drop D, but I will use a capo now....lol! If I can't sing the song tuned in 440 I better get my chops working or not do that song any more. The last time I saw AC/DC they were tuned 2 1/2 steps down :eek: If Bon were still alive I bet he could still sing it...lol!
 
Tralfaz said:
Just my opinion. If you want to play a gig with a tuner clipped to the headstock the whole time, be my guest.
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Knowing how little the general audience thinks of such things, it really makes no difference to me what the chorus of guitar nerds thinks.
 
I'd rather have the tuner on the floor, personally.
though I don't use one live.
our guitarist does, and I just get an "A" off him and do it from there.

the main reason I wouldn't want one on the headstock is I'd be very likely to fling it off into the crowd or something.
 
No kidding. Bash one drunk and your Snark is skittering across the floor only to find its fate is looking up a 50 year old barfly's dress for eternity. :embarrassed:

Poor little Snark. :(
 
I use a capo on a few songs where I need to play open chords further up the neck. It's also handy for holding the strings down when I"m doing set ups.
 
The G7 is small enough that when you put it on the end of the headstock, most people don't even notice it's there.

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EDIT: holy crap... while looking for capo pics, I just realized that this shirt is the exact same color as the strat I just built. So weird... I haven't owned this many light blue items since I was a toddler. :embarrassed:

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I see a lot of people who gig with capos and tuners on the headstock and it doesn't bother me a bit. When I do it, it bugs the shit out of me. It is the same with the A/E black boxes; they don't bother me on other people's guitars but I can't stand them for myself (even though I do own one cheapo A/E with it).
 
Keith Richards, David Rawlings, Richard Thompson, Buck Dharma and a bazillion others all use capos. No shame in it at all, and there's some really neat color to be found if you're trying to compliment a second guitarist.

I used a Shubb for years and still have one but more recently I've switched to a G7.
 
Gary Blanchard said:
As a folk singer, they are pretty much expected. Much of folk music is first-position strumming, so you want the open chords. The first capo I owned was a massive piece of metal. My mother always said it looked like a gynecological instrument.

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Over the years, I have used just about every capo ever made, but always revert to the Shubb.

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I have both these two also.

I almost never use a capo for guitar. The rare exception being where I have a lead sheet with only capo'd chords.

If my sheets have both, I almost always use un-capo'd on guitar. On mandolin, given both I'll use the capo'd version because the strings are so much closer together and harder to chord.

On the extremely rare occasion I play banjo, it's almost always capo'd, because my only banjo is a long-neck (speaking of Seeger), and I use the capo to bring the banjo up to standard G tuning.
 
dmn23 said:
Keith Richards, David Rawlings, Richard Thompson, Buck Dharma and a bazillion others all use capos. No shame in it at all, and there's some really neat color to be found if you're trying to compliment a second guitarist.

I used a Shubb for years and still have one but more recently I've switched to a G7.
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The capo is a tool, and a good one at that.

In a band setting, have one guitar playing in standard tuning and one with a capo playing elsewhere - sounds kickass. Often used this technique in the studio, sounds great.
 
Almost never on electric guitar, quite a bit on acoustic guitar.

Acoustic guitars sound better using "open" chords (so, the keys of C, D, E, G and A, essentially), and capo to the key you want to sing in.

OTOH, electrics tend to work better with "closed" chords, but even there, a capo can come in handy, so there's one in my Tele's case.

Really like the Paige "Clik" a lot, after many, many years of using a Kyser.

 
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