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SonnyWalkman partial capos for guitars (27) RE: partial capos for guitars 07 May 11

I use a Shubb partial capo at the 2nd fret on strings 3,4 & 5 which puts you in EBEABE (i.e one whole step up on DADGAD). It has the advantage that you can use ordinary barre chords above the capo so you've got the best of standard tuning and DADGAD but without retuning.

You're not limited to playing everything in E either. To play in other keys just put a standard capo two frets below wherever you put the partial - it doesn't half confuse people when you're jamming.   

It took a bit of time to get my head round it but I love it now.

On most guitars you can also get away with using a standard Shubb or a G7 capo at the 2nd fret but only on strings 1,2,3,4 & 5 which puts you in dropped D but one whole step up (Dropped E?).

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