Put Your Guitar In DADGAD, Drop D Using Kyser Capos - Tutorial
For many players, if they’ve seen one capo they’ve seen ‘em all. But they likely haven’t seen anything like Kyser’s Quick-Change Short-Cut and Quick-Change Drop D capos. As Guitar World Tech Editor Paul Riario states in the above demo video, “These are not your ordinary capos.”
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00:00 What's up? Paul here from Guitar World and today we're going to be checking out a couple of unique capos from the king of capos
00:06 Kaiser, yes, these are not your ordinary capos
00:10 It's the Kaiser quick change shortcut capo and the quick change drop D capo. Let's check it out
00:26 Both the Kaiser shortcut and drop D capos offer great ways to find creative chord voicings or if you need to capo alternate variations of similar
00:34 Chords, I love Kaiser capos. I use them and in this video
00:38 I'm going to show you just a few examples on how to use each in
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00:44 The shortcut capo works with acoustic guitars or electric guitars and is designed to capo three of the six strings on a guitar
00:52 the fifth string the fourth string and the third string otherwise known as the a string the D string and
00:58 G string and as you can see the other three strings are free and don't go through the capo
01:05 so when capoed on the second fret the shortcut emulates what is known as dad-gad tuning and
01:10 When capoed on other frets the shortcut turns of the guitar into an open tuned instrument
01:16 You can hear all the colorful voicings as you strum or play finger style up and down the entire record
01:22 What I really love about the Kaiser
01:25 Shortcut capo is that I don't have to retune if I want to do that dad-gad
01:31 type of tuning simply just put the capo on the second fret and you pretty much have that sound and
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01:45 So with the shortcut capo
02:13 You can see all the different possibilities like you know having this open
02:17 And these two open and then of course I'm capoed here on the second fret with the B and E and A
02:23 I can do a lot of different, you know kind of inversion so I can go get this kind of
02:29 really great sound
02:31 I can even go behind the capo and and you know and hit the bass note of it as well
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02:39 And of course having that
02:52 Possibility of these notes being held I can use this to kind of drone out other strings
02:58 Well, I'm able to hit these notes adding a real nice, you know, colorful texture like something like this
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03:14 So moving it up to the fourth fret with the
03:42 Shortcut I can also keep the bass note and the ringing strings and also create some colorful
03:47 Tones as well as having that low
03:50 Bass note kind of drone through so here we go
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04:28 Also another cool thing that you can do is take the shortcut capo and invert it so basically I'm
04:35 Barring the on the second fret the the C sharp the a and the e so now I have the two
04:44 Bass strings the e and the a open as well as the open e so with that you can get of course like a different
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04:53 Color as well. Um, also like it almost sounds like an alternate tuning. So let's hear what that sounds like. Here we go
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05:51 The drop D capo works with acoustic guitars or electric guitars as well and is designed to capo five of the six strings on
05:58 A guitar only the sixth string the e string remains open when the drop D is capoed
06:03 It allows the guitar to emulate a drop D tuning on the second fret which I have here
06:08 So you can do the familiar cowboy chords or create experimental shapes. So similar to the shortcut capo again, I can do some interesting
06:16 Variations on chords and of course play behind the nut as well while I'm barring and keeping that low
06:23 E open like this
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07:02 Also with the drop D capo you can also move up to like say the seventh fret and then use sort of the low E
07:08 as sort of your
07:10 Moving bass note and then watch the different inversions you can do here like this
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08:41 Also the same thing with the drop D
08:43 You can invert it turn it upside down like I did and then use the E as your drone and now you have the whole
08:49 Second fret barred where you can have fun with it like this
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09:48 Both the Kaiser quick change shortcut and drop D capos are avant-garde capos that open up a world of creative possibilities
09:55 These capos work on any fret in standard or inverted positions and alternate tunings
10:00 The only thing you need to bring with you besides these Kaiser capos is your imagination
10:06 Definitely check it out
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