Almost anyone who plays an instrument knows there are two main ways musicians learn songs: studying written music and picking stuff up by ear. Most players eventually wind up in both camps, but ...

If you're a guitarist, you've probably heard your instrument go slightly out of tune every time you clamp a capo onto the fretboard. A capo is the simple spring-loaded mechanism that raises the pitch ...

It’s tempting to see the capo as a simple tool to facilitate quick key changes without having to learn new shapes. However, when you start using a capo on the higher frets you unlock a fresh new ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ezra will often play with a capo at the 2nd fret. But if he’s playing live and finds a song too ...