Tim2723 wrote:On another popular site I frequent this conversation would have never made three pages without a dozen posters chiming in to say that capos are cheats used by incompetent players. Bravo Chiff & Fipple.
Tim, you can inform the people on that other site that
frets are cheats used by incompetent players. If they can't control their exact fingerboard intonation without using frets as crutches, they're a bunch of losers.
Really, that sort of pedanticism is just about as ridiculous.
Those are the guys who will show up at an Irish session with a guitar and an attitude: "Hey I'm a great guitarist. I've been playing for umpteen years, and I've memorized Ted Greene's Chord Chemistry". Then proceed to completely mangle ITM backup.
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