Never mind Gargle, the voices in his head make him do this stuff.

Since I started learning to play up the neck and started to know the fingerboard this question has turned itself around naturally-you have to use all different positions and inversions. The trick becomes to find ways to play the tune's signature riff in the new positions. At the same time it allows you to drop down and play two bars in unison for emphasis and thundering dynamics before going back up the neck. To learn to do this you have to lose your capo for a while and force yourself to learn the higher positions.