Harvey's Open Letter

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After 24 hours of replies, most folks are voting for tabbing the nut or full capo as zero. Adrian Legg votes agains the full capo as zero.


Trace Bundy (who I hope weighs in soon) uses multiple partial capos, moves them around, takes them off and on during songs, and sometimes even plays percussion on the neck or strikes some strings WITH the capo. In alternate tuning, no less.

frikkin' capo ninja, that guy. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/17383


This is extreme, but a good example of why the TAB method for partial capos should be as flexible as possible - to allow for the avant-garde playing that we're likely going to see more of in the future.


Randall

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Because we play on both sides of the capo... i vote the the NUT or the FULL CAPO is zero. If the if the partial is on 3 and the full on 1 we still make use fo the strings in the 2nd and 3rd fret. Therefore any TAB would want to show that.

My 2 cents.

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i understand that many people are much more proficient (to put it mildly) than i am at cut capos.....but.....


"0" has to be either the nut or wherever the full capo is placed. that makes no negative numbers at all and the fret #'s for everything else remain the same regadless of what fret you start on. the longest open string is "0". that is simple enough even for me to understand. otherwise which cut capo is "0"? the drop d? the 3 string cut? the whatever else hybrid someone comes up with? anything else is fine for math majors but confusing for those who you are directing this to....people who don't already know about it. you have to gear it for the lowest common denominator (like me).

keep it as simple as possible..



greg newlon

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