Help on using Capos?

wooly84

Hi Guys this is just a quick question.

I was watching a band the other night that had two guitarists.
The main guitarist was playing his guitar lets say standardly with no capo regular chords etc, but the second guitarist was playing with him using a capo on the 7th fret playing along, so how this work?
would he be playing the same chords
say their progression was Em, G, Am, F guitar 1
would guitar 2 play these same chords as in shape and position with relevance to capo or do you play different chords to stay in same key or something, this has always confused me

any helps appreciated

Thanks

topcatcbr

Play same/matching chords not same shapes.

A simple example No capo play D and guy with capo on 5th fret plays an A shape. Still a D

Oink

If you look at an F chord, you will see that it's the same chord shape as an E. You've just played it one fret higher, with the index finger added. You could replace your index with a capo, if you need all your chord shapes to move up one fret (1 semi-tone).