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[300m]

What does adding a cappo to the neck do to the key?
Cappo at the 1st fret, does that make it F or Eb?  I thought F, but I read somewhere Eb.  Confused????

[AC]

What does adding a cappo to the neck do to the key?
Cappo at the 1st fret, does that make it F or Eb?  I thought F, but I read somewhere Eb.  Confused????

It makes your guitar tuned to open F, but if you're playing elsewhere, you may be in a different key.  Eb?  Only if your guitar is tunes down.  The first fret on a standard tuned guitar on the E string is F.  Flat goes down, not up.

[300m]

I knew the up deal, that is why I was confused.  Bet it was a misprint on the sheet.

[minorsubdominant]

When a capo is placed on the first fret, the guitar's open strings  are the following tones: F, Bb, Eb, Ab, C, F. All of these tones belong to the Eb major scale (by the way, these tones also belong to other diatonic scales: Db(C#) major or  Bb(A#) minor, Ab major or  F minor, as well as a number of other, non-diatonic scales). When the capo is added, any chord forms, scale shapes, etc. that would be played in D major would be transposed up a half step to Eb. Any of those in the key E, would become the key of F; A would become Bb, etc. It makes many of the flat keys a bit easier- typically to accommodate a vocalist on the fly. It is NOT, however, an open F tuning. There are other ways to achieve that... but I can go on forever;)  I hope this helps!

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