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Old 03-21-2017, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by campy View Post
I have been playing for just about a year and a half and I will be happy when I'm at the point where I know what everybody is talking about. I'm 66 and so much to learn and so little time.
Campy, here's an easy way to look at it: whatever fret you put the capo on is the number of half steps you add to the chord shape, so:

Put the capo at three, make the E major shape, and you're playing G major:
E plus 3...
+1 = F
+2 = F#
+3 = G
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