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The SpiderCapo means you can have an open alternative tuning without retuning the guitar AND apart from those notes that the spider capo is holding down all the chord shapes higher up the fretboard are the same as usual, and all the notes on the fretboard are in the same places as usual.
I've only had a brief try, but it seems soooo much easier to create something because of this.
I've recorded a simple example on the Tanglewood TW45 acoustic (condenser microphone) - a rare outing for it onto a recording. The Spider has legs down on the 2nd frets on the 5th, 4th and 3rd strings. So it's rather like the DADGAD only a tone higher - EBEABE. I only needed to remember 3 chords - the I chord with either 0, 1, or 2 fingers needed, the IV chord with just 1 or 2 fingers needed, and the V chord with just 1 finger needed. The rest of it was picking out notes that would work in E and playing around with the "open" strings.Last time I did DADGAD open tuning was over 2 years ago, and I've hardly done open tuning at all since then. This recording was done after maybe 20 minutes from first putting the SpiderCapo on and trying it out.
GREAT FUN!!!!!!!!
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