try capo more

http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/images/irony/Slide6stephin_colour.jpg1.jpg
and my capo helps me write my melodies! They're sentimental! Look how sad I look just now. That's my sentimental look.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

Does he use a capo?

He does use a strange upside guitar where a D means a G or vice versa. That really threw me, watching him one time.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

I have four different capos, in four different styles (the Shubb at the top, a Kaiser, one of the little black ones with the notches, and one of the horrible old-school putty-colored rods with rainbow-colored stretchy material that wraps around).

I recently had three of my capos on my guitar at once, doing some magnificently futile open D tuning.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

He does use a strange upside guitar where a D means a G or vice versa. That really threw me, watching him one time.

I bet it doesn't throw a GoD like him.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

"Norweigan Wood" would not exist but for the capo. That one on the top is a Shubb, made in Sonoma County. Still the best.

― andy, Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/a6/7d/268646.JPG

― andy, Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

I thought it was a drug -- it has made pf behave very oddly.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 11 March 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/18/television.sopranos.reut/story.tony.soprano.jpg

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 11 March 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

Shubb Capos rule. Hint - capo acoustics on 7th fret and fingerpick - you immediately turn into Nick Drake.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 11 March 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

I wish it were that easy!

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 11 March 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

Honestly - just pick quick and chuck in some major 7ths - can't go wrong.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 11 March 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

I'm trying to find a way to make capos more punk rock, but it just ain't happening. Maybe I need more duct tape.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 March 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago) link

I wish my paperclip were Christopher Walken.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 11 March 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

how much does a Shubb Capo cost?

― kephm, Thursday, 11 March 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

I had a capo, but I never used it. The guitarist in my last band borrowed it, and I think he forgot to give it back. But I don't care, because I prefer to just write songs in keys I can't sing in.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 11 March 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

"I'm trying to find a way to make capos more punk rock..."

Pretty sure d boon was the main punk capo guy. I don't know about any others, unless you count the sonic youth drumstick bridge...

― andy, Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link

everything d.boon did was fucking cool. (except dying.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

Tuning BEBEBE capo 4th fret

Main pattern for intro and 1st half of verse:

--|0-0-0---|--------|--------|--------|
--|-0-0-00-|0-0-----|--4---4-|--4---4-| (- the 4's on this string
--|4-2-0--0|-0-00-0-|2---2---|2---2---| are 0's in the intro)
0-|------4-|2-0--0-0|-0-0-0-0|-0-0-0-0|
--|--------|----5-4-|--2---2-|--2---2-|
--|--------|--------|0---0---|0---0---|
* * *

(* - sometimes you slide up to these notes from the fret below)

Variation for the last two bars of the above:

|------0-|--------|
|--4-----|4---4---|
|2---2---|--2---2-| (only the top 3 strings are different)
|-0-0-0-0|-0-0-0-0|
|--2---2-|--2---2-|
|0---0---|0---0---|

Second half of verse

|--0---0-|--0---0-| |--0-----|
|5---5---|4---4---| |4---4---|
|-0-0-0-0|-0-0-0-0| (x3) |------2-| (x4)
|--0---0-|--0---0-| |-0-0-0-0|
|5---5---|4---4---| |--2---2-|
|--------|--------| |0---0---|

End bit:

|----0---|----0---|---0----|---0----|---0----|---0----|
|--5---5-|--4---4-|--5--5--|--4--4--|--5--5--|--4--4--|
|-0-0-0-0|-0-0-0-0|-0--0-0-|-0--0-0-|-0--0-0-|-0--0-0-|
|--0---0-|--0---0-|--0--0-0|--0--0-0|--0--0-0|--0--0-0|
|5---5---|4---4---|5--5----|4--4----|5--5----|4--4----|
|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|

|-------0|----0---|
|----4---|-4----4-|
|--2-----|---2----| to end
|-0-0-0--|0-0--0-0|
|--2---2-|-2--2-2-|
|0---0--0|---0----|

Tabbed by Chris Healey

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link

that looks like a mad DDR dance routine.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:20 (twenty years ago) link

i bought a shubb last year and it was like a tenner - well worth the money - so easy to clip on and off, and doesn't bend the strings, and doesn't need the world's strongest hands to put on and off (unlike those ones with a spring that look like a gun with a trigger).

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:22 (twenty years ago) link

Oh . . . BEBEBE was Nick Drake's fave tuning . . . what is that . . . . don't tell me, it's coming . . .

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 12 March 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

As I say, Nick Drake stuff is fabulously easy to play, once you know what you're doing. It just sounds difficult and cool because of the odd tunings - AND THE FACT THAT ITS PLAYED ON THE 7-9TH FRETS!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 12 March 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

OKAY, and the 4th.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 12 March 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link

He did have some crazy right-hand stuff though. It doesn't take THAT long to catch on but it's maddening for the first thousand attempts.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 12 March 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

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