A Capo For Two: Jamming for Beginners

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My preference would be a chart with no F contained in any of the inner cells at all or to redesign it and label / describe it differently.

My actual preference is actually for something I created … please forgive me straying away from humility here but I am quite pleased with these diagrams / charts / tools I created.

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Using a capo to stay in the same key

I have created a table to show this for all five combinations of the arrangement of CAGED with a different starting chord shape below. [1]

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Using a capo to stay in the same key

I have made a more concise and, perhaps for most, easier to read version of this same information - a cheat sheet if you will. [2]

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Using a capo to stay in the same key

Now, no matter which of the five chord shapes you are starting from, you can always figure out how many frets to capo up from that position. That holds good if your start point is open position chord shapes or if you are starting from having a capo on and you need to count up or down from that position. To count down you would just reverse the direction of the arrows and move the capo down the same number of frets. To know the shapes of all other chords in the progression, you can translate dir…