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Thanks for the advice and the videos. At least I won't feel bad about being a cheat if I modulate using a capo.
I tried the Wilcox technique using the picking hand to move the capo and that works better than using the fretting hand, which is what I'd been doing. I may look into one of the sliding capos, but it would have to work on a flat classical neck. Michael Johnson usually used a Kyser capo as did Wilcox in the video linked to by JonPR. To show why I can't figure how Michael Johnson is modulating without a capo, I've made a video of the intro riff that he also plays after the modulation. Now it's certainly possible he plays it differently but again, having watched him play and having figured out many of his arrangements, I'm pretty sure this is what's being done. The partial chords with open strings, the dropped D, and the slides, make it pretty hard to modulate capo-free in my opinion. But then, Johnson was probably capable of doing it. In case I give up on the modulation, I've come up with an melody alteration that gives a lift to the ending similar to what a key change is intended to do.
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I capo up at 2:15 in this video of Shenandoah to play in a different "flavor |
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I capo up at 2:15 in this video of Shenandoah to play in different chord shapes, but key change would be no different. |
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Nice job. But I don't use a looper so I'll have to manage a quick change with not too big a gap of silence. Luckily, the song I'm doing this on does have a gap. I'm practicing the change and it's coming along. My main issue is getting over the idea that I'm "cheating" by doing this.
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Tommy Emmanuel throws the capo off rather than moving it part way through this Beatles' Medley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsLGgeK3qCg
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Dan Romano changes capo position several times in his song "Workin For the Music Man", albeit a studio album.
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Well I have the guitar work down and I recorded two versions of the ending. One modulates a half step as Michael Johnson performed it (I'm using a capo shift) and the other stays in the same key and simply alters the melody. I'm trying to decide if the key change is really that much different in effect.
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Used to do He Stopped Loving Her Today. G C D Started with capo on the nut. after first verse, moved capo to first fret.
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