Wrong! You will always suck and never be good enough as a musician. /s

It’s ridiculous. No way I would watch this video.

I hear you.

The entire concept makes me so angry. I grew up as an experimental guitarist, surrounded by unimaginative metal heads. They loved my playing and the sounds I was getting, but they had to lash out instead of embracing the art. It's a prevalent attitude, held by many idiots. I mean.... isn't turning an amp up loud "cheating"? Having low action? Using a whammy bar. Shit. I once was accused of cheating for doing volume swells with my volume knob. Music isn't a sport.

Its nonsense. Whoever would say that using a capo is "cheating" would have only motivation: bullying. I don't know why Chris has responded and made this video,

guitar amplifiers, distortion and other effects, frets, whammy bars. All tools to be used.

Well said.

If what comes out of your guitar sounds good, I don't care if you're "cheating". Effects boards and pedals, capos, whammy bars, 8 strings, etc... bring it on! People who complain about this probably aren't very proficient on their instrument.

even violins use a Capo!

You try playing a chord on a violin

Necks are cheating relative to a harp

@@mostesthighest Harps are cheating relative to a theremin

@@mostesthighest strings are cheating relative to a theremin

I wouldn't say using a capo is cheating, I'd say always using a capo does a disservice to yourself

I was Blown away, I have a question are you a Musician? Lisa Einsohn

@@barryeinsohn2839 I play guitar.

@@rowdy3837 Rowdy, Barry didn’t write that about Chris, I did, Lisa, I know a lot about Guitarist, I thought you might be a Musician because of what you said, he is Extremely Talented and I love his Tones, I love hearing him play, actually I know a lot about Music and the Music Business. Do you play in a Band or Professionally? Lisa Einsohn

@@rowdy3837 Hey Rowdy I replied to you, look under reply’s, I accidentally wrote it maybe in the wrong place.🎸Wrote under highlighted reply’s

Rowdy I am not trying to argue with you, Chris is, not like Andy Timmons Who Completely Blows you Away, he is young and he is a amazing player, it nice to see someone like Chris Buck to come into the Music World for all the younger people, and for us to see him progress.🎸🎸🎸🎸 Lisa Einsohn

I'm with you on that one . the art of it , there are endless possibilities for playing a song . this player played the same song in different ways . I like that , I feel so not alone . I am not a resital guy .

The correct opening should have been, I'm an old jazzer who never owned etc. When you are determining whether you should use who or that, keep these simple guidelines in mind: Who is always used to refer to people, and you are a person. That is always used when you are talking about an object, you are not an object, like I wrote, you're a person. That can also be used when you are talking about a class or type of person, such as a team. Sorry Bubba but the use of that instead of who is my current pet hate as I believe it is the influence of computers on our language that has led to this error.

@@215Gallagher "who is that guy" must therefore be grammatically incorrect in your world. So, I should have asked "who is who guy"?

@@215Gallagher Whilst I agree with your English Grammar lesson, I hardly think that this is the time or place to present it; this is music.

@@Zacharia503 it would make sense to ask for clarification of meaning if a post was ambiguous. But this one wasn't made ambiguous by the grammatical error

@@kennethkeen1234 Not sure, but... There are spammers putting in comments designed to scam users. They get blocked by KZfaq. At least that is my best guess.

@@kennethkeen1234 it's a comment from a banned or shadowbanned user that has been removed.

I too appreciated that line.

a Link please..? 🤞

Well, he is the one who is actually cheating... 😉

Since when does a capo change the sound of a string at all? They don't. It's no different than fingering the same notes. "Jangling" is more in chord choice (Majors and 7ths), strumming style, and tonality of an instrument. 12 string guitars are often called jangly because of the extra higher pitched strings. Open strings sound pure notes, they do not "Create harmonics", and harmony and harmonics are not one and the same thing either. Harmony is when two notes sound good and pleasant together, a harmonic is when you divide a wave (the vibrating string) into equal divisions of it's root note over it's effective length between two breaking points (fret and saddle) to break it into shorter segments that ring higher (Never lower) note than it's root. You have to force harmonics, the instrument does not make them naturally. What a capo can do is give you different open (unfingered) notes to what you would get without one. It behaves exactly like open strings, which behave just like fingered strings, it just holds some strings down for you, and allows for different note combinations that may be hard or impossible to play without one, or without an extra hand 😅. Tuning your guitar a half note sharp on all strings, is equal to just putting a capo over the strings between the nut and first fret.

@@Bob-of-Zoid Not quite. There is a difference in the nut material and the frets, which results in a slight change in tone. High end basses have a 0th fret for exactly that reason, it makes the open string sound more in line with fretted notes. Record something which includes open strings and then tune down a half step and capo the first fret, then compare the results. I think the capo version sounds better.

@@simongunkel7457 You are wrong! It does jack to the tone in any noticeable quantity! Not all High end basses do, and many guitars and other stringed instruments do too. The zero fret preceded the nut bu over a century, and was invented to get around the fact that a zero fret is the only one with constant pressure on it and wears way faster than any other fret. A nut can be made and installed faster, and at lower cost than a fret replaced and leveled. It's a workaround for a problem. I can although easily see a manufacturer selling that snake oil, and everyone who blew an extra $800 on an instrument that needs the zero fret replaced every few years, repeating such claims, and you taking it on blind faith. Snake oil is still Gibsons No. 1 selling point after all. I am making a bass right now that may sell for over $10,000 and if in auction who knows, possibly as much as $25K. I use 360 brass (not that "Bell brass" crap) or Stainless steel for nuts, not because of their tone, but for longevity. 360 brass is as tough as SS, and has the added advantage of being self lubricating. I'm not going to write a scientific paper for you to understand the laws of mechanical energy and wave propagation through materials based on their properties, nor can I know if you could even understand all involved, especially the quantities and math, but since you made the claim, how about you explain to me how that works! Remember when Stainless steel frets started getting popular in the late 90's? I was using it in 84 already. Lots of players, gong merely on a basic misunderstanding of science claimed it made the tone harsh and what not. That went away real quick when they were exposed as fools and their friends never had to pay for a fret job! Now you don't hear that very often anymore, and why? Because it was nonsense right from the start. Next you are going to tell me that "Tonewood" is a thing, and that nitrocellulose sounds better than polyurethane! 🤣

@@simongunkel7457 Do you also believe in tone wood?

@@Bob-of-Zoid I'm not going to start peddling nonsense, but I have checked the difference between an open string and downtuning by a half step and capoing the first and there is a measurable difference in the decay of the higher partials starting with the 2nd harmonic, with the capo keeping the harmonics at a higher level relative to the fundamental for longer. You are probably right that this isn't down to the material, I hadn't given it much thought and I'm more inclined to think it's a matter of how a saddle contrains string motion compared to a fret, with the saddle keeping a fixed point, which a fret allows for the string to move laterally. I am willing to dust of my differential equations knowledge to figure out the precise reason for this beaviour, but it's there and repeatable. Note that I'm not advocating for buying some particular instrument, I'm advocating putting a capo on whatever instrument somebody owns. That's about as far away from "you need expensive gear to sound good" as it gets (even cheaper than "regularly change your strings").

It's never the secret to a great sound! There is no great secret, only a crap load of bad misinformation on what does and doesn't do what to the sound, and "Tonewood" is utter bullshit! I'm sure Chris can make a clothes line contraption sound great!

Exactly!!

Mother goose would be imposible to play withouth it on the same playfull way

@@jorgemendoza325 One of my all-time favourites. I capo the third fret instead of the fifth.

Glenn was a monster of a guitar player too.

Re my earlier comments: I tried one in the shop and it left me cold, no 'gimme gimme' factor. You obviously had a different reaction, personal choice at the end of the day.

Exactly. There is no such thing as "cheating" in music. There is only getting the sound you want, or not.

But the higher the strings are off of the Fretboard the more volume your acoustic will throw out...