Find out what a capo is and why you need one!
Find out what a capo is and why you need one!
I recommend Trigger-type Capos as they're super easy to fit on to the guitar and grip all the strings very well.
The Capo also gives us a great advantage when learning guitar, plus allowing us to learn way more songs! It's not just for Beginners though, once you have a Capo you'll find yourself using it throughout your whole guitar journey.
Some songs, such as Hotel California or Wonderwall, use the Capo as part of that guitar riff so you can't actually play along to the original recording without one. What we'll discover is more common though, is we'll use the Capo to help us change key easily and by doing this we keep all the same chord shapes too!
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One other fantastic use of the Capo is to essentially avoid difficult chords. This isn't 'cheating' or going to halt progress at this stage, it's actually used by pro's too, especially if playing and singing. Playing an Open chord is much easier to feel on the neck, so ultimately easier to play rather than jumping around the fretboard with barre chords.
For example, rather than playing a difficult F barre chord, we can simply move the Capo to fret 1 and play the Open E major chord shape - tada! There's an easy F chord!
