Simple Capo question

JakeDTH · 10-11-2010, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by DJPuffyLemon

What you're saying is correct, I think there was just some misunderstanding regarding which guitars are capoed for which purpose. So capoing D# would bring it to E, and capoing dropped C# would bring it to dropped D, which you said, and which would work.

Cool, cool. Thanks for the confirmation. I hope I can find a capo that works nice with 11/12 gauge strings.

JakeDTH · 10-11-2010, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Uh.. not hard, nowhere near impossible. But I'm wondering why you posted here in the first place... What you're saying you already know already answers any questions you've had then.

Am I missing something?
Please don't be wasting our time.

I was just clarifying, I've never owned a capo. And I didn't know the things I do now when I posted the question, I've done a bit of research into it now, but most of the examples given were for tunings I've never used and aren't interested in using. So I still needed clarification.

I don't mean to waste time.

mr dave · 10-11-2010, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by JakeDTH

I started calling Eb D# because whenever I told people the tuning I'd say "it's E flat" and they would get this weird look on their faces like a "so you're playing out of tune?" But whenever I said "it's D sharp" people would react like "so D but slightly higher, interesting", it's weird but that's why I call it D# now.

it's all good haha like the difference between to-may-to and to-mah-to so long as everyone is on the same page it doesn't matter what font the information is written in.

Dr_Rez · 10-14-2010, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by JakeDTH

I started calling Eb D# because whenever I told people the tuning I'd say "it's E flat" and they would get this weird look on their faces like a "so you're playing out of tune?" But whenever I said "it's D sharp" people would react like "so D but slightly higher, interesting", it's weird but that's why I call it D# now.

I think most people call it Eb. Its not uncommon. SRV and Hendrix both used it a lot. I cant name them all but I know many prominent blues guitarists also used it because it gave them a little more lower end.

Fred Lewis · 10-30-2010, 11:12 PM

That is weird why that would confuse people, I always though going down was flat, up was sharp.

If I work with female artists that play in a lot of strange keys I will detune to Eb to make my life easier, also the bluegrass concept of capo on 2 and play A as a G shape gives a lot of punch to the guitar

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Fred Lewis Groupie Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 15	That is weird why that would confuse people, I always though going down was flat, up was sharp. If I work with female artists that play in a lot of strange keys I will detune to Eb to make my life easier, also the bluegrass concept of capo on 2 and play A as a G shape gives a lot of punch to the guitar