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Originally Posted by paulzoom
Try playing "here comes the sun" without a capo.
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OP: this is precisely the example I was going to use. I play this with another guitarist. We both play it in the key of A, but in different ways.
He plays what I think of as the George Harrison part, Capo 7 starting in the D shape. I play what I think of as the Paul Simon part (Capo 2, starting in G shape). Without going into lots of detail, this allows me to play "under" or "behind" his parts, and in some spots to mimic what he is doing much more effectively than I could do trying to play an A shape in first position.
BTW, this approach is based on a joint appearance of Paul Simon and George Harrison on Saturday Night Live that I saw MANY years ago.