Monday, April 26, 2010
A capo is something you use to change the pitch of different chords. It is a very useful way for guitarists to play as it makes playing of songs much easier for them. Like for example, if you are playing a song in a key of G with 3 chords( G, C and D) and you would like to change the pitch of the song into a key of A, you could just capo the 2nd fret. In this way by playing the same chord pattern, the notes would change to A, D and E respectively.
When using the guitar capo, it is important to put it a little behind the fret and make it parallel to the fret as you can get. It makes the guitar sound nice and smooth when the capo is at the right place. After tuning the guitar, you will realise that the sound produced has a higher pitch than when no capo was used. This is because frets on the guitar are one step each. Therefore, when the capo is placed on the 3rd string (for example), it would sound one and a half steps higher than normal.
We are a group of students from Hwa Chong Institution. This blog is for our music project.
The group members include:
Winston Tan
Yeo Zhen Ning
Jaron Cheung
Tan Jun Jie
Leow Yong Heng
Alex Peng
Li Wong Kin
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