Can you use instead capo

Blog Menu. Blog Home. Guitar , TakeLessons Teachers August 24, Sign up successful. Post Author: Tracy D. Tracy D. Learn more about Tracy here! Fret that is farther from the nut and closer to the body. You can now play your guitar with the songs you want that require capo! You can also use zip ties, yarn, shoelaces, or even a fishing line albeit, using nylon will be troublesome.

Make sure both sides are equal. Basically, pull a little bit on the right, pull a little bit on the left, pull again on the right, then left, and so on. Really what you want to do is make a loop with the rubber band on the pen or pencil, twist it once, then stretch it over the other side and loop again.

Do this until your rubber band is good and tight. No worries! Just add more until you get a good solid sound from the open strings without any buzzing. The good news is you can substitute the bands for something like a piece of string or a shoelace and get your capo up and running in no time! I'm the main guy at KillerGuitarRigs. I've been playing music since when my older brother taught me to play "Gigantic" by The Pixies on a bass with two strings.

Do not leave the capo on the instrument when not playing it. The capo, when clamped on the neck, holds the strings down on the fretboard and creates extra tension on the neck and the top of the guitar.

All acoustic guitars are destined, at some point in time, to have problems due to the tension of the strings. You can use a capo, play a song in bar chords and then move all the chords up or down, or write down all the chords of the song in the appropriate key. Those are good solid ways, but sometimes it's just nice to transpose without capo, bar chords or too much hassle of writing things down.

There is actually NO difference between a musical key and a guitar key. The reasons for this, is that the chords in this key are more suitable for the guitar. With capo on third fret — if you play chords for key of G — take G and add 3 semitones and you get Bb or A.