How to Use a Capo For Acoustic Guitar
About Bill Palmer
BILL PALMER is a guitarist, composer/musician and an educational author. His style is a mix of rock tones, ambient sound-scapes and jazz-influenced harmony.
Along similar stylistic lines to Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson but with a voice all his own, Bill’s debut self-recorded album “Outlines” (ToneFreak records 2007) has garnered much critical acclaim from both music industry press and insiders and has been described as:
“Classic Satch style shred…” Australian Guitar Volume 64
“Face melting runs, complex arpeggios…” Rave Magazine 2008
“Your material is awesome, really great stuff…” Mark Holden – Aust. Idol Judge
“Great playing, writing and arranging – awesome!” T.J Helemerich (LA based producer)
“Bill Palmer’s “Outlines” is a guitar pickers heaven…” Manly Daily
“Tone, control and melody – epic sounding….” Australian Guitar Volume 64
“Plenty of heat, the songs are both catchy and original…” Manly Daily
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How To Use a Shortcut Capo – Beginner Acoustic Guitar Lesson
Here are two awesome video guitar lessons on using a Shortcut Capo (Also known as a Partial Capo) from Randall Williams, who is an instructor over at JamPlay. Not familiar with JamPlay yet? Shame on you!
JamPlay is a membership only service which broadcasts high-definition video guitar lessons. They teach by “lesson set” instead of just flopping out a ton of small video clips. They start with the very basics like tuning your guitar, finger placement, and basic chords, and move on to finger-picking, palm muting, hammer ons, pull offs, and many more advanced topics as you progress through the lessons. When you have time, I highly recommend you check them out! Click here to visit JamPlay.
Back to this lesson on using a Shortcut Capo. In these video lessons, Randall introduces us to this really cool tool and also demonstrates how to play several chords. He also shows us how to play a really cool song by The Beach Boys using just three very simple chords.
I am quite familiar with a regular 6 string guitar capo as I use one all the time. They are wonderful tools that instantly change the key of your guitar, but I never used a Shortcut-Capo before. I will be picking one up shortly! This lesson is perfect for the absolute beginner or for those of you who just want to try something fresh and new.
