eli5: Why do we use capos for playing certain songs on a Guitar?
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Some chords are easy to play. Some are more awkward. If you’re playing in a key that has a lot of awkward chords, a capo is a way of shifting in to playing in a different key. You’re fingering a G chord, say, but because there’s a capo on fret 3, the whole sound is shifted up by 3 frets so it sounds as an A#/Bb. (I don’t know if that’s a tricky chord for guitar or not. I play piano!)
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