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Thread #62960   Message #1019744
Posted By: Richard Bridge
16-Sep-03 - 03:41 AM
Thread Name: tuning (or compensating) capos
Subject: RE: tuning (or compensating) capos
I found some other threads on capos yesterday and think there's a bit of snobbishness here.

Yes, I can't play DADGAD. What's more, people don't want to wait while I get into DADGAD and then back to standard. Further, the fact that the other intervals remain the same make some runs I'd want to play in DADGAD actually easier with the tuning capo. In fact I'm not a brilliant guitarist or mandolin player, and I'd rather not learn a new tuning. I'm a chord player not a picker, and most of the variant tunings rather limit the available choice of chords. I used to use drop D, double drop D, and a variant of double drop D with the bottom E down to A, but now there's only one different tuning I use and that for only one song, drop top D, because it's the only way to get the sound I want for one particular chord in it.

But more particularly, I was asked to put the information up here, by people who wanted to see it. Because they wanted to try the tuning capo themselves. Nothing to do with bragging on my part.

If that offends the tuning police - or if using a capo at all does too - I am not ashamed, merely rather irritated by their pettiness.