Chords for Choosing the Right Banjo Capo
Tempo:
83.4 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
D
Bb
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[C]
[A] Hey [N] y'all, Jim Panky here.
Somebody asked me recently about different capos and what should I get.
Well there's a lot of things to choose from.
As far as regular capos for the banjo, there's several on the market that are pretty common.
This is a Shubb capo and it's got, it's basically a C-clamp kind of capo and it's got a little
latch on it.
So once you set it, you push it on there and it clips and holds it in place.
This is one of my very first capos that I got, well one of the first Shubb capos I ever
bought back when I was a teenager.
And you just hold it on, I hold it with my right hand usually, and put it right next
to the fret, just latch it in place, and then that sets your capo there.
The thing you gotta remember though when you capo, you gotta capo up the neck too.
In this banjo I have model railroad spikes and I'll talk about sliding capo later, but
this model railroad spike, you just take and you slide your string under the spike and
that holds it at the fret that you need it.
And you can put as many spikes as you need.
I keep, on this banjo I've got a spike at 7, 9, and 10.
But you know, different banjos I've got, some of them I've got them at 8, and some of them,
I had a banjo once upon a time, I had them all the way up here to 12.
So whatever works, and the spikes are a great solution.
And that's the Shubb.
The other capo that's pretty common that you'll see is the Kaiser capo.
It's just a little, it's a spring type capo, it's not adjustable, and you just squeeze
it and you put it on the, you can work it with one hand, and you put it right where
you want it.
And that's the Kaiser.
A lot of folks like the Kaiser because they can clip them to their headstock and it's
just a good handy place to keep one.
And that's the Kaiser capo.
Planet Waves capo is a seat clamp type of capo, but it has a screw so you can tighten it.
Same thing, put it right behind the fret, tighten the seat clamp up, just enough to
hold the string.
[A] And [E] of course you'd have to capo your fifth again.
[Gm] But that's the Planet Waves capo.
It's a little wider, so it will allow you to capo up the neck if you wanted to capo
all the way to the seventh fret.
That's the Planet Waves.
[Ab] The capo that I'm using primarily these days is a Page capo, or you can find them, there's
an Elliott capo and McKinney, and there's a lot of high-end versions of this capo if
you wanted something that was really, really fancy.
But the Page is about a $20 capo, and [D] it goes on the neck [E] and it's stayed, you can actually
leave it on.
So it goes all the way around your neck, and then you just hold it in place, tighten it
up just [A] enough, and then when you're done with it, [N] you can slide it back over the nut
and just loosely tighten it.
You don't want to tighten it down past the nut or pull your strings out of the tune.
But just enough for it to stay in place, and that's a good handy place to keep your capo.
And that is the Page capo.
One other capo for the fifth string is this sliding capo, and this is one by Shubb.
I don't have a banjo with one of these installed, but it mounts to the side of the neck with
little screws, and then this piece slides and you just tighten it down on the string.
And a lot of folks like these, it's convenient.
And then I've got another banjo that I'll show you here in a little bit, and it's got
an old style Pittman sliding capo.
And that's pretty much the capo options.
Now which one should you buy?
Buy the one you like.
They're all good, they all have benefits.
I'm not particularly crazy about the Kaiser, but I know the guys that like them, and there's
a certain convenience to that one.
I like the Page, it stays on there, I don't have to worry about where it is.
The capo I probably use more, and if you can see this one up close, you can see it's pretty well worn.
I mean, it's dinged and dropped, and it's really handy.
It's just, I never knew where to put this one.
I usually wind up putting it in my pocket to keep it.
So that's one of the [Bb] reasons I went with one that stays on the neck.
But the Shubb is just a great option.
The [G] Planet Waves, also nice.
So if you bought any of these capos, you would be alright.
I prefer the ones that you can tighten, you adjust the own tension, but whatever works
for you is just fine.
If you wanted to just use a short pencil and a rubber band, if you could make that work
for you, that would just be great.
Alright, so what we got here on this banjo is a sliding capo.
One of the first capos I ever had was exactly this model.
They went by different names, but most folks call it the Pittman capo, and it's just a
little piece of metal that screws on the side of your neck, and it's got a spring, and you
just slide that spring, the end, to [Bb] the fret that you want capoed.
[E] They're real notorious for [Bb] buzzing and making a lot of racket that you don't want, but that
was the capo, and that's what a lot of us used.
So if your banjo has that, then when you capo up here, you'll have to slide this one up
to [Gb] wherever you want it, and that's the way that one works.
So that's a sliding spring Pittman type capo.
So there you go, that's a little bit of [D] information on the capos.
See you next time.
[G] [E] [D]
[A] Hey [N] y'all, Jim Panky here.
Somebody asked me recently about different capos and what should I get.
Well there's a lot of things to choose from.
As far as regular capos for the banjo, there's several on the market that are pretty common.
This is a Shubb capo and it's got, it's basically a C-clamp kind of capo and it's got a little
latch on it.
So once you set it, you push it on there and it clips and holds it in place.
This is one of my very first capos that I got, well one of the first Shubb capos I ever
bought back when I was a teenager.
And you just hold it on, I hold it with my right hand usually, and put it right next
to the fret, just latch it in place, and then that sets your capo there.
The thing you gotta remember though when you capo, you gotta capo up the neck too.
In this banjo I have model railroad spikes and I'll talk about sliding capo later, but
this model railroad spike, you just take and you slide your string under the spike and
that holds it at the fret that you need it.
And you can put as many spikes as you need.
I keep, on this banjo I've got a spike at 7, 9, and 10.
But you know, different banjos I've got, some of them I've got them at 8, and some of them,
I had a banjo once upon a time, I had them all the way up here to 12.
So whatever works, and the spikes are a great solution.
And that's the Shubb.
The other capo that's pretty common that you'll see is the Kaiser capo.
It's just a little, it's a spring type capo, it's not adjustable, and you just squeeze
it and you put it on the, you can work it with one hand, and you put it right where
you want it.
And that's the Kaiser.
A lot of folks like the Kaiser because they can clip them to their headstock and it's
just a good handy place to keep one.
And that's the Kaiser capo.
Planet Waves capo is a seat clamp type of capo, but it has a screw so you can tighten it.
Same thing, put it right behind the fret, tighten the seat clamp up, just enough to
hold the string.
[A] And [E] of course you'd have to capo your fifth again.
[Gm] But that's the Planet Waves capo.
It's a little wider, so it will allow you to capo up the neck if you wanted to capo
all the way to the seventh fret.
That's the Planet Waves.
[Ab] The capo that I'm using primarily these days is a Page capo, or you can find them, there's
an Elliott capo and McKinney, and there's a lot of high-end versions of this capo if
you wanted something that was really, really fancy.
But the Page is about a $20 capo, and [D] it goes on the neck [E] and it's stayed, you can actually
leave it on.
So it goes all the way around your neck, and then you just hold it in place, tighten it
up just [A] enough, and then when you're done with it, [N] you can slide it back over the nut
and just loosely tighten it.
You don't want to tighten it down past the nut or pull your strings out of the tune.
But just enough for it to stay in place, and that's a good handy place to keep your capo.
And that is the Page capo.
One other capo for the fifth string is this sliding capo, and this is one by Shubb.
I don't have a banjo with one of these installed, but it mounts to the side of the neck with
little screws, and then this piece slides and you just tighten it down on the string.
And a lot of folks like these, it's convenient.
And then I've got another banjo that I'll show you here in a little bit, and it's got
an old style Pittman sliding capo.
And that's pretty much the capo options.
Now which one should you buy?
Buy the one you like.
They're all good, they all have benefits.
I'm not particularly crazy about the Kaiser, but I know the guys that like them, and there's
a certain convenience to that one.
I like the Page, it stays on there, I don't have to worry about where it is.
The capo I probably use more, and if you can see this one up close, you can see it's pretty well worn.
I mean, it's dinged and dropped, and it's really handy.
It's just, I never knew where to put this one.
I usually wind up putting it in my pocket to keep it.
So that's one of the [Bb] reasons I went with one that stays on the neck.
But the Shubb is just a great option.
The [G] Planet Waves, also nice.
So if you bought any of these capos, you would be alright.
I prefer the ones that you can tighten, you adjust the own tension, but whatever works
for you is just fine.
If you wanted to just use a short pencil and a rubber band, if you could make that work
for you, that would just be great.
Alright, so what we got here on this banjo is a sliding capo.
One of the first capos I ever had was exactly this model.
They went by different names, but most folks call it the Pittman capo, and it's just a
little piece of metal that screws on the side of your neck, and it's got a spring, and you
just slide that spring, the end, to [Bb] the fret that you want capoed.
[E] They're real notorious for [Bb] buzzing and making a lot of racket that you don't want, but that
was the capo, and that's what a lot of us used.
So if your banjo has that, then when you capo up here, you'll have to slide this one up
to [Gb] wherever you want it, and that's the way that one works.
So that's a sliding spring Pittman type capo.
So there you go, that's a little bit of [D] information on the capos.
See you next time.
[G] [E] [D]
Key:
E
A
D
Bb
G
E
A
D
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[A] _ _ _ Hey [N] y'all, Jim Panky here.
Somebody asked me recently about different capos and what should I get.
Well there's a lot of things to choose from.
As far as regular capos for the banjo, there's several on the market that are pretty common.
This is a Shubb capo and it's got, it's basically a C-clamp kind of capo and it's got a little
latch on it.
So once you set it, you push it on there and it clips and holds it in place.
This is one of my very first capos that I got, well one of the first Shubb capos I ever
bought back when I was a teenager.
And you just hold it on, I hold it with my right hand usually, and put it right next
to the fret, just latch it in place, and then that sets your capo there.
The thing you gotta remember though when you capo, you gotta capo up the neck too.
In this banjo I have model railroad spikes and I'll talk about sliding capo later, but
this model railroad spike, you just take and you slide your string under the spike and
that holds it at the fret that you need it.
And you can put as many spikes as you need.
I keep, on this banjo I've got a spike at 7, 9, and 10.
But you know, different _ banjos I've got, some of them I've got them at 8, and some of them,
I had a banjo once upon a time, I had them all the way up here to 12.
So whatever works, and the spikes are a great solution.
And that's the Shubb.
The other capo that's pretty common that you'll see is the Kaiser capo.
It's just a little, it's a spring type capo, it's not adjustable, and you just squeeze
it and you put it on the, you can work it with one hand, and you put it right where
you want it.
And that's the Kaiser.
A lot of folks like the Kaiser because they can clip them to their headstock and it's
just a good handy place to keep one.
And that's the Kaiser capo.
_ _ Planet Waves capo is a seat clamp type of capo, but it has a screw so you can tighten it.
Same thing, put it right behind the fret, tighten the seat clamp up, _ _ _ just enough to
hold the string.
[A] And [E] of course you'd have to capo your fifth again.
[Gm] But that's the Planet Waves capo.
It's a little wider, so it will allow you to capo up the neck if you wanted to capo
all the way to the seventh fret.
That's the Planet Waves.
[Ab] The capo that I'm using primarily these days is a Page capo, or you can find them, there's
an Elliott capo and McKinney, and there's a lot of high-end versions of this capo if
you wanted something that was really, really fancy.
But the Page is about a $20 capo, and [D] it goes on the neck [E] and it's stayed, you can actually
leave it on.
So it goes all the way around your neck, and then you just hold it in place, _ tighten it
up just [A] enough, _ and then when you're done with it, [N] you can slide it back over the nut
and just loosely tighten it.
You don't want to tighten it down past the nut or pull your strings out of the tune.
But just enough for it to stay in place, and that's a good handy place to keep your capo.
And that is the Page capo.
One other capo for the fifth string _ is this sliding capo, and this is one by Shubb.
I don't have a banjo with one of these installed, but it mounts to the side of the neck with
little screws, and then this piece slides and you just tighten it down on the string.
And a lot of folks like these, it's convenient.
And then I've got another banjo that I'll show you here in a little bit, and it's got
an old style Pittman sliding capo.
And that's pretty much the capo options.
Now which one should you buy?
Buy the one you like.
They're all good, they all have benefits.
I'm not particularly crazy about the Kaiser, but I know the guys that like them, and there's
a certain convenience to that one.
I like the Page, it stays on there, I don't have to worry about where it is.
The capo I probably use more, and if you can see this one up close, you can see it's pretty well worn.
I mean, it's dinged and dropped, and it's really handy.
It's just, I never knew where to put this one.
I usually wind up putting it in my pocket to keep it.
So that's one of the [Bb] reasons I went with one that stays on the neck.
But the Shubb is just a great option. _
The [G] Planet Waves, also nice.
So if you bought any of these capos, you would be alright.
I prefer the ones that you can tighten, you adjust the own tension, but whatever works
for you is just fine.
If you wanted to just use a short pencil and a rubber band, if you could make that work
for you, that would just be great.
Alright, so what we got here on this banjo is a sliding capo.
One of the first capos I ever had was exactly this model.
They went by different names, but most folks call it the Pittman capo, and it's just a
little piece of metal that screws on the side of your neck, and it's got a spring, and you
just slide that spring, the end, to [Bb] the fret that you want _ capoed.
[E] They're real notorious for [Bb] buzzing and making a lot of racket that you don't want, but that
was the capo, and that's what a lot of us used.
So if your banjo has that, then when you capo up here, you'll have to slide this one up
to [Gb] wherever you want it, and that's the way that one works.
So that's a sliding spring Pittman type capo.
So there you go, that's a little bit of [D] information on the capos.
See you next time.
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[A] _ _ _ Hey [N] y'all, Jim Panky here.
Somebody asked me recently about different capos and what should I get.
Well there's a lot of things to choose from.
As far as regular capos for the banjo, there's several on the market that are pretty common.
This is a Shubb capo and it's got, it's basically a C-clamp kind of capo and it's got a little
latch on it.
So once you set it, you push it on there and it clips and holds it in place.
This is one of my very first capos that I got, well one of the first Shubb capos I ever
bought back when I was a teenager.
And you just hold it on, I hold it with my right hand usually, and put it right next
to the fret, just latch it in place, and then that sets your capo there.
The thing you gotta remember though when you capo, you gotta capo up the neck too.
In this banjo I have model railroad spikes and I'll talk about sliding capo later, but
this model railroad spike, you just take and you slide your string under the spike and
that holds it at the fret that you need it.
And you can put as many spikes as you need.
I keep, on this banjo I've got a spike at 7, 9, and 10.
But you know, different _ banjos I've got, some of them I've got them at 8, and some of them,
I had a banjo once upon a time, I had them all the way up here to 12.
So whatever works, and the spikes are a great solution.
And that's the Shubb.
The other capo that's pretty common that you'll see is the Kaiser capo.
It's just a little, it's a spring type capo, it's not adjustable, and you just squeeze
it and you put it on the, you can work it with one hand, and you put it right where
you want it.
And that's the Kaiser.
A lot of folks like the Kaiser because they can clip them to their headstock and it's
just a good handy place to keep one.
And that's the Kaiser capo.
_ _ Planet Waves capo is a seat clamp type of capo, but it has a screw so you can tighten it.
Same thing, put it right behind the fret, tighten the seat clamp up, _ _ _ just enough to
hold the string.
[A] And [E] of course you'd have to capo your fifth again.
[Gm] But that's the Planet Waves capo.
It's a little wider, so it will allow you to capo up the neck if you wanted to capo
all the way to the seventh fret.
That's the Planet Waves.
[Ab] The capo that I'm using primarily these days is a Page capo, or you can find them, there's
an Elliott capo and McKinney, and there's a lot of high-end versions of this capo if
you wanted something that was really, really fancy.
But the Page is about a $20 capo, and [D] it goes on the neck [E] and it's stayed, you can actually
leave it on.
So it goes all the way around your neck, and then you just hold it in place, _ tighten it
up just [A] enough, _ and then when you're done with it, [N] you can slide it back over the nut
and just loosely tighten it.
You don't want to tighten it down past the nut or pull your strings out of the tune.
But just enough for it to stay in place, and that's a good handy place to keep your capo.
And that is the Page capo.
One other capo for the fifth string _ is this sliding capo, and this is one by Shubb.
I don't have a banjo with one of these installed, but it mounts to the side of the neck with
little screws, and then this piece slides and you just tighten it down on the string.
And a lot of folks like these, it's convenient.
And then I've got another banjo that I'll show you here in a little bit, and it's got
an old style Pittman sliding capo.
And that's pretty much the capo options.
Now which one should you buy?
Buy the one you like.
They're all good, they all have benefits.
I'm not particularly crazy about the Kaiser, but I know the guys that like them, and there's
a certain convenience to that one.
I like the Page, it stays on there, I don't have to worry about where it is.
The capo I probably use more, and if you can see this one up close, you can see it's pretty well worn.
I mean, it's dinged and dropped, and it's really handy.
It's just, I never knew where to put this one.
I usually wind up putting it in my pocket to keep it.
So that's one of the [Bb] reasons I went with one that stays on the neck.
But the Shubb is just a great option. _
The [G] Planet Waves, also nice.
So if you bought any of these capos, you would be alright.
I prefer the ones that you can tighten, you adjust the own tension, but whatever works
for you is just fine.
If you wanted to just use a short pencil and a rubber band, if you could make that work
for you, that would just be great.
Alright, so what we got here on this banjo is a sliding capo.
One of the first capos I ever had was exactly this model.
They went by different names, but most folks call it the Pittman capo, and it's just a
little piece of metal that screws on the side of your neck, and it's got a spring, and you
just slide that spring, the end, to [Bb] the fret that you want _ capoed.
[E] They're real notorious for [Bb] buzzing and making a lot of racket that you don't want, but that
was the capo, and that's what a lot of us used.
So if your banjo has that, then when you capo up here, you'll have to slide this one up
to [Gb] wherever you want it, and that's the way that one works.
So that's a sliding spring Pittman type capo.
So there you go, that's a little bit of [D] information on the capos.
See you next time.
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