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Yes like one of the best ever.....Glen Campbell!😜
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Ok I'm going to try to break this down as simply as possible. While I can sing a song in any key sometimes a song just sounds better in a certain key. So let's say I have a country song that sounds best when I sing it in the key of A. Well if I capo up two frets and play the song with G shape open cords it still sounds like a country song. If I don't use a capo and play it out of the A position it sounds like a blues progression. Do you want to be true to the song or do you want to brag that you "never use 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. |
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We really need a "Like" button on this forum. Spot on!
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I have people ask that very question (mainly a bass player). Why would I want to make the song more difficult? My goal is to make what I am playing sound as good as possible with as minimal of effort as possible. Why would I want to play barred F chords when I could play a capo 1 E or capo 3 D? Easier pivot finger changes, suspensions, etc. Why not?
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voice in a key
Voices are not in particular keys. That said often certain keys work better with your voice. that's not because of the key but because of the range of notes within the key. Think of it this way: you can sing just so high and just so low, and probably your comfort zone is an even shorter range of notes. Here's what I do to determine the key I will use. First, I know how high and how low I can sing, then I look at the high and the low notes in the song, and select a key that keeps these centered around my sweetest spot.
I don't use capos often but there are times when I prefer the fingering in a certain key but want to sing in another. And, more often, someone else will start a song, say in G, but I've always played it in D. So one goes the capo so I get the fingering I prefer but can stay in tune with the singer.
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1st - '39 (Queen) 4th - I'd Love You To Want Me (Lobo) 7th - Scarborough Fair / Canticle (Simon & Garfunkel) 7th - Everything I Own (Bread)
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One that rings a bell is all the online lessons for Tequila Sunrise have a capo on 2.
That is what I meant by song lessons. Quote:
Four years in and I am obviously still full of questions. Thank for ALL the replies. I will be reading over these again tomorrow. |
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Neither Django nor Les Paul were singers...
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I'm not a musician, just a guitar hobbiest, but I like the "flavors" a capo gives at different positions.
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I thought we were playing music, i.e. arranging sound over time.
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I love the tonal differences of pseudo open chords up the neck, just a totally different sound than fretted chords. Both good, but no way the same. Capos add new flavors, and i also like the spongy playability factor -- my guitars are all well set up, so don't take me down the set up response to that one. Anyway that's me .. i like a full palette of sounds, and do a lot of barring for wide range across the board, but a capo can take you to a different dimension, so i use them frequently.
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Where's the 'LIKE' button when you need one?
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between keys, chords and progressions. Example : =============================================== Tequila Sunrise By The Eagles G It's another tequila sunrise D Am7 D G Starin' slowly across the sky, said goodbye G He was just a hired hand D Am7 D G Working on the dreams he planned to try, as days go by Em C Every night when the sun goes down Em C Just another lonely boy in town Em D And she's out running round G She was just another woman D Am7 D G And I couldn't keep from comin' on, it's been so long G Oh and it's a hollow feeling D Am7 D G When it comes down to dealin' friends, it never ends Guitar solo G D Am7 D G Am7 D Take another shot of courage Bm E Am7 B Em A Wonder why the right words never come, you just get numb G It's another tequila sunrise D Am7 D G This old world still looks the same, another frame ================================================ To play this song in G - do as above. To play it in A - capo on II and play the same SHAPES. You wanna sing it in D ? Capo II and transpose to a C shape for the root, then change the SHAPES to keep the progression of I,V, IIm7 V I etc (that's just the first line obviously).
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Was that a serious question?
For somebody with nearly 3000 posts here, I can't imagine you not knowing . . .
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