Howard the Duck

i only find it useful when i need to go from Open G to Open A

otherwise, i usually fuck around with it, in weird tunings as Freebase does

like a CCCDEE, with a capo on the 7th fret

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Piotr_13

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Howard the Duck

or just fuck that

ever tried a CCCCCC with a capo on the 11th?

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crowhue

Capos will do no damage to your guitar's neck or strings and 7's or lighter will snap pretty easily I would have thoughy. 9's are a better compromise of lightness against tone. Shubb capos are pretty good by the way, for about £20. Dont go for a cheap one as they dont stay in tune.

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Dr_Rez

1. Why are you playing with 7's??

2. A Capo is 20 bucks who cares.....just buy one if you dont use it then dont use it.

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Howard the Duck

only about 8 bucks here

either Korean or Chinese-made, though

you could get the elastic one as well, that one's just under 2 bucks

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mr dave

I remember making a homemade capo with a pencil and a bootlace back in the day. Not pretty, but it worked.

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musacco

Capos are really good imo, I use a capo all the time! Changing the pitch on the fly is pretty useful. And you can get some tone colours from a capo that you can't get so much normally. It's an interesting job to compensate for chords, keys and such but you learn to work with it.

And I second the guy who suggested a shubb capo, I use one of those, they're very good capos.