Capo (kay-,poh)

Some people call this device a cheater. We don't care. The capo is also used to give different color to your chords. The Capo comes in many inventive shapes and sizes. Some are made with elastics and others have gears and many moving parts. Here is the one I use.

You can change the key, but play the same chord formation, by applying the capo.

Take for instance the D chord. Played with G and A, you are in the key of D. Now let's put the capo on two frets up the neck.

Same D formation, but now you are playing an E chord. When you play your G and A formations here you are in the key of E.

Put the capo on three frets up the kneck, you have an F chord. When you play your D, G and A formations here you are in the key of F.

Five frets up gives you a G chord. And yes, when you play your D, G and A formations here you are in the key of G.

Seven frets up the neck, in D formation will be the key of A.

Nine frets up the neck, in D formation is the key of B.

Ten frets up the neck, in D formation is the key of C.

You can keep moving the capo up the neck until you are playing D again at the twelfth fret.