Capo's

[Phil]

Ok, quick question. Are they ever really necessary or are they just for when you are feeling too lazy to use a barre chord? lol

[smfulla]

Personally, I say its the latter =]]]

[Phil]

Hehe, that's what i was thinking too :)

[The Fury]

Hey Phil, capo's are well woth it, seriously. You can form all kinds of complex chords you just can't do by barring. They also let you play in different keys, with ease.

You can also do different kinds of hammer-on's, pull-off's and tapping. For example a pull-off from fret 7 to fret 2 without a capo is very difficult, but with a capo it's extremely easy. Thats just one example, there are many more raesons why it's good.

I find it a very usefull tool. The're cheap aswell (£2.00) so you might as well get one.

[Pezcore]

its not often mine gets used, but considering they're so cheap they're well worth getting

[gck]

I think they are meant to transpose songs to different keys without learning new chord shapes. If you know the chords for a song, you can keep your shapes and use the capo to transpose it, rather than re-learning the song in the new key!!

That's what they are good for.

However, I do also rarely ever use mine, but there are some songs that are lot easier to play with one (like "Under the Bridge" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers)

[Levinson Blade]

Get a cappo there a lots of songs that use them

[Krieselman13]

They are good uif you want to experience alternate tunings. Just slap the capo on the 3rd fret and tune like usual. You will have an interesting tuning going on.

[Phil]

Ok, well i have seen a few different styles of capo, anyone got a particular one they would recommend?

[The Fury]

I would say just get a cheap one. One of those that has a piece of elastic and a bar of plastic/rubber that goes on the strings. I bought a clamp capo for £15.00 and it's no better than the £2.00 elastic version.