Secrets of 4 & 5-String Partial Capos

At last! The manual for “sawed-off” 4 & 5-string partial guitar capos... The shortened or “cut” capo is where partial capoing began. Thousands of players have discovered how easy it is to use them to make new things possible on guitar, without realizing how much more they can do. 

Partial capo pioneer Harvey Reid reveals a large collection of secrets from this mysterious musical world. Here are almost 50 ingenious ways to use 4 or 5-string Planet Waves, Shubb, Third Hand, Liberty “Flip”, SpiderCapo and Kyser short capos to unlock the new music hiding in your fingerboard. Players of any level can learn where to put the capos, where to put their fingers, and what the musical results are, with lots of helpful ideas and strategy discussions.

This book is packed with detailed diagrams, charts, careful explanations, tips & tricks and a wealth of carefully-chosen chord fingerings that will leave your head spinning and yours ears full of sounds you’ve never heard yourself play before.

Recently expanded, this now has over 1600 chords, shown with the notes and scale positions. Novices as well as seasoned players can benefit from learning where to put the capos and fingers to find the magic new sounds hiding in the guitar. This is a wealth of valuable information not available anywhere else on earth. Even the people who make these capos don't know what's in this book.