Is there a reason Dave doesn't use capos?

geo3217 · Post by **geo3217** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:14 am

I don't know of one song where Dave uses a capo. Does he just not like them, or he likes the way tuning the guitar differently sounds?

markTR · Post by **markTR** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:47 am

I think your second guess is probably the closest to the truth, IMO. That, and retuning the guitar makes it easier on the hands to play. I don't know if you've ever thrown a capo on the 7th fret and tried to play Stay or Leave, but it gets pretty cramped.

Really though, its probably just because he doesn't need to use one

sunglassesatnight · Post by **sunglassesatnight** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:36 am

There's some song from Stand Up he uses a capo on, right?

Blake · Post by **Blake** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:02 am

He capo's Out of My Hands

Martini · Post by **Martini** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:15 am

Good Good Time is capo'd on the 3rd fret

Nitro1515 · Post by **Nitro1515** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:23 am

He put a capo on for Sister last year at one show

fede · Post by **fede** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:42 pm

Well we know he OWNS one.

He doesn't use it much though, apart from those mentioned above, i can't think of any other.

Fede

pjdk28 · Post by **pjdk28** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:46 pm

he has multiple guitars, so i think its rarely necessary

DMBZeppelin · Post by **DMBZeppelin** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:17 am

He always capoed the 3rd fret for Good Good Time. On the AOL Webcast of a show from Florida he used a capo on Sister that night. I think I've heard he did at a few other shows.

DrumsFoDaSoul · Post by **DrumsFoDaSoul** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:26 pm

DMBZeppelin wrote:He always capoed the 3rd fret for Good Good Time. On the AOL Webcast of a show from Florida he used a capo on Sister that night. I think I've heard he did at a few other shows.

Didnt repeat anything from previous posts.......

Appfro · Post by **Appfro** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:22 pm

a capo on the 7th fret of course is really hard, but i think a capo on 3 or 4 is the easiest guitar you can play.

buttermuffin4 · Post by **buttermuffin4** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:32 pm

Appfro wrote:a capo on the 7th fret of course is really hard, but i think a capo on 3 or 4 is the easiest guitar you can play.

I suppose it depends more on the size of your hands. It's easier for me to play songs capoed that high. I have small hands, full size guitars aren't considerate of that. Stupid sexist guitar inventor!

Appfro · Post by **Appfro** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:05 pm

umm....the size of frets have absolutely nothing to do w/ sexism or the size of the average hand. it's designed for precision to make every fret to raise the frequency half a step. but if you were being fasicious, then cool

buttermuffin4 · Post by **buttermuffin4** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:38 pm

Appfro wrote:umm....the size of frets have absolutely nothing to do w/ sexism or the size of the average hand. it's designed for precision to make every fret to raise the frequency half a step. but if you were being fasicious, then cool

Guitars definitely could've been made smaller. There's actually a company that makes smaller guitars for people with smaller hands aka women. . .

Brian M.D. · Post by **Brian M.D.** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:03 pm

Why don't you just buy a smaller scale guitar? most guitar manufacturers offer that as an option on at least a few of their models, like taylor i know has a few 21-23" neck models.