What is the use of a guitar capo?

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Manish Kumar

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A capo temporarily shortens the strings on your guitar, raising the pitch of the unfretted, or 'open' strings and changing the key of open-position chords. Where you clamp the capo determines which open pitches the strings have and what your open-position chords are
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Guitar capo is the easiest way to transpose on guitar, and play the open chords without holding Barre chords!
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Guitar capo is the easiest way to transpose on guitar, and play the open chords without holding Barre chords!
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A capo temporarily shortens the strings on your guitar, raising the pitch of the unfretted, or 'open' strings and changing the key of open-position chords. Where you clamp the capo determines which open pitches the strings have and what your open-position chords are.
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