In this week’s episode of Folky Fridays from Folk Friend, I’ll be giving you a first glance at partial capoing techniques you can use to get ethereal, tinkly chords with big ringing bass notes! These techniques all use a standard capo and can really enhance the range of cool chords you can get using standard chord shapes which you will already have used for Celtic guitar backing. I will be expanding on the topics covered in this free Celtic guitar lesson live stream in the forthcoming partial capo-ing video which will be up on the Folk Friend channel in about three weeks.
This video only requires a standard six-string capo. If you would like to buy one then please support the channel by buying one directly from my guitar shop, here.
I also used the 7th fret partial capo technique in my arrangement of The Castle Jig, also commonly called Sean Ryan’s (E dorian). It appears in my book of fingerstyle arrangements of Irish tunes, Irish Tunes For Fingerstyle Guitar, available on the shop page of this site!