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Old 12-27-2009, 07:08 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Martian View Post
A capo can work, but learning to barre properly and transpose on the fly will make you a more versatile guitarist.

Barre chords are one of the hardest things for beginning guitarists to get the hang of, I think, but you have to learn sooner or later. If you're learning to be able to play a song you like, I reckon that's just more motivation to do it.
All true. All very true.

Yet I know a female guitarist whose hands literally aren't big enough to hold an E-barre. So, don't use it as a crutch unless you have to, I'd say, but... she has to!
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