The guiding rule is if resonance and ‘longer’, more connected chords are musically appropriate, it’s a good idea to play in a guitar-friendly key (C, G, D, A, E). This applies to most (but not all) styles of music, and general rhythm-guitar strumming. The acoustic, if not strumming in a guitar-friendly key, is almost always (and should be) capoed to one. Are both the acoustic and electric guitars regularly capoed? Even if it were possible to play them without a capo, working physically harder on the guitar doesn’t ever equate to sounding better. The riffs that James Taylor plays in songs like Fire and Rain, or George Harrison’s iconic intro for Here Comes the Sun- these sounds can only be accomplished in the particular key form that they’re in. Capoing is promoted for two reasons with Chordal charts: it’s a great way to learn numbers by maximizing the amount of songs we can practice one set of numbers with, but also just because it’s an incredible tool that professional and seasoned guitarists regularly use. This myth has been propagated by a fair amount of guitarists. Capo FAQ I thought using a capo was ‘cheating’ or only for beginners.
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