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Old 10-02-2008, 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by bc guy View Post
I've been learning guitar thru youtube lessons and books and I notice many people playing with the capo at the third fret.
I play a little piano and know some music theory and I understand the theory about capoing to transpose but there is also something about the sweet sounds at that fret.
I've been learning pattern/travis picking and I seem to keep playing capoed at the 3rd fret.Anyone else find this?
I absolutely 100% agree with this. I've thought it for a long time and just thought of it again earlier tonight when I was playing a song with a capo on 3. There's something that just makes an acoustic guitar come alive when you're playing with a capo on the third fret.

After third, 2nd fret is close behind followed by 4th fret. There's probably some complex mathematical equation involving things likes frequencies and resonance and other big words that explains it, but I just like the sound. I could sit around all day long strumming with a capo on the third fret.
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