In episode 89 of the guitar music theory podcast, I explain why you should use a capo. Greetings guitar engineers,

guitar engineers, welcome to the guitar music theory podcast I am your host Desi Cerna and today I'm going to talk about why you should use a capo some people

think using a capo is a sissy way to transpose a piece of music, but I'm going to show you how

using a capo enables you to create sounds that you wouldn't be able to make without a capo.

But before we get started, I want to direct all of my podcast listeners over to my website

Guitar and Music Theory.com.

Answer the questions I ask you about your playing,

and I'll send you free custom video instruction

calibrated to your current level.

I'll show you what you should specifically

be working on right now in order to get your guitar skills

together and move forward with your playing. Go to guitar music theory.com you can

click on the link in the podcast show notes. All right, let's dive in and how about we start with my guitar tone today.

I oftentimes forget to mention that I'm using my Kemper profiling amplifier.

I'm using my 1968 Marshall Super lead profile from Top Jimmy. and I'm using my PRS Mira or Myra

my R A it's the SE and I actually took the PRS pickups out and I put two Seymour Duncan Fat Cats, which are P90

pickups, soap bar, so-called soap bar pickups, but they fit in a humbucker housing so that you can replace your humbucker-equipped guitar to get the P90 sounds. So that's what I have here.

That's what I have here.

That's the bridge pickup there. So that's my sound. All right, so today's lesson is about

using a capo and why you would want to use a capo.

Some people think that using a capo

is just an easy way to transpose songs.

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