you need a lot of pressure from the elastic and the popsicle sticks keep breaking. Its somewhat difficult to make it actually work. With a larger drill its easier to break the bit. I like a dremel tool for these small sized bits. If the bit is too big the spike will be loose. If its too small the spike might split the wood. make it easier for your harp player to play along with youĪnd to my ear, that's exactly what the guys on many of the old records did (and continue to do). 3 once I made a capo out of some popsicle sticks and an elastic. Do a test on a piece of hardwood first to make sure your bit is the right size. reduce strain on your fingers so you can focus on the vocal delivery rather than thinking about transposing reduce strain on your voice by moving the song to a more comfortable pitch to sing along with You could theoretically emulate these in a different key altogether, but it's just so much easier to us a capo to. I get a lot of questions related to capos:'How do I use a capo' 'What do I do if I don't have. Long story short: Many players had (and still have) their signature chord shapes, fingerings, licks, progressions, patterns. Today I want to show you guys how to make a capo from scratch. That changes the original song and is therefore "cheating". And you'll find capo tables, telling you how to play in G using your basic open chord shapes. you'll still find those campfire songbooks where every song is transposed to basically use C, F, G and Am, even if the original was in a completely different key. Again, it's the open strings you want, their harmonic resonance/rattling, the bass note drone, and that big all-strings-open sound. the piano.Įxample 2: Open tunings! If you're in open G, there's really not much of a point to play for example in A without a capo. Not exactly tech, but Im proud of this makeshift capo I made, had to use the charger and napkin to get the right amount of hold against the strings. Here, the guitar to me is fundamentally different from e.g. Theoretically, you could of course transpose the song into the B position, but you would lose a lot of the original. You need the open strings, resonance, etc.Įxample 1: A classic Lightnin' Hopkins style blues, let's say in the A position - if you want to play that in B, you would just capo it up two frets, because again, you want to use the same open bass string sounds and treble runs. as we all know, there are certain licks/phrases/chord shapes that "need" a certain fingering. To the point of "you should learn to play in any key and anywhere on the fingerboard".
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