The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #29571   Message #374676
Posted By: Sarah2
14-Jan-01 - 10:41 PM
Thread Name: Naming chords for capoed instruments
Subject: RE: Naming chords for capoed instruments
Our trio has a guitar/tenor banjo, a keyboard and a viola. The keyboard has a "capo" on (in?) it, so we can wind up playing three different progressions if the keyboard moves up three and plays a G progression, the guitar capos at the first fret plays an A progression, and the viola is in Bb (she just loves that). So we're constantly transposing chords, depending on the sound we're trying to get.

Well, at least we always know whose songbook is whose...

Sarah