The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150149   Message #3498134
Posted By: PHJim
03-Apr-13 - 01:26 AM
Thread Name: help for people using partial capos
Subject: RE: help for people using partial capos
A regular Shubb capo applied from the treble side at the 2nd fret over the first five strings will give a "drop D" effect, although it's actually "drop E". The advantage over retuning to "drop D" is that all chord shapes remain the same as in standard tuning. The disadvantage is that the first two frets of the 6th string are almost impossible to use.