Open tuning & shortcut capo

[Blaze]

Interesting process..


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[marnold]

What kind of capo is he using that he can play behind it like that? I know that he doesn't have the capo on the two highest strings. He seems to be playing behind it on the lowest string.

[Blaze]

What kind of capo is he using that he can play behind it like that? I know that he doesn't have the capo on the two highest strings. He seems to be playing behind it on the lowest string.


I m also learning about this , here s a link i ve found ..


http://www.kysermusical.com/shortcut/

[evenkeel]

I use a home built short capo for a few tunes. I just cut an 1/2 inch or so off a regular kyser. It enables me to get to an alternate tuning, w/o actually retuning and some chords are fretted the same. I also use a drop d tuning with the short capo on a few tunes. This gives you a modified double drop D, but again, the finger patterns stay the same.

I've said more than once, this is trickery and deception trying to mask my lack of ability.

[marnold]

I've got a hard enough time figuring out alternate tunings without a partial capo. My brain hurt listening to his explanation.

[oldguy]

Slap one of those on an Esteban acoustic and you'd have somethin'!:what

[markb]

You can cut out whatever bits of a Kyser capo you want to allow open strings. Easier than playing one of these.

http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/PluckedStrings/Guitars/Gibson/2531/2531Gibsonharpguitarportrait.jpg