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The Capo Company I love my Performance 2 capo so much that I have one for each guitar! They are easy to use, very light, and look great. In my opinion it’s the best capo out there! Josh Baldwin Songwriter and Worship Leader with Bethel Church and Bethel Music Find out more: www.G7th.com/Performance2 more like this?” Instead of having five different this to sound like bashing players who can play playing a hundred million notes. The older guy overdrive options I’ve just got the one that I fast or do a lot of guitar work like that. There looks at me, kind of shakes his head, and he have to have, and the rest is just about, “Well, are a lot of players like that who I love to listen says, “This is where you make all your money – how can I hold my pick differently? How can I to. Like I talked about earlier, my limitations in down here”, and he points to an open C chord put my capo differently?” guitar led me to where I am, and I work at that at the bottom of the neck! I just loved that. It stuff and am constantly trying to get better at was just a simple chord, but man that really I think limiting yourself, even on purpose, can what I do. Just as a disclaimer I felt like I had stuck with me. I thought that was hilarious. force you to come up with different parts or to say that, but this story is kind of about that. Not that it’s about money, but it’s about what’s to write something different than you would effective. You can play a million notes and that’s normally write. Sometimes it’s just about going I used to live in Austin Texas, and I was at Austin fine, but in my life, there have been a lot more for the thing that you have in the moment. Vintage Guitars, which was my favorite place to times that I’ve needed a C chord than the other Normally on tour I would switch guitars, but if go. They have an amp room, which is behind thing (laughs). we have a really fast transition I’m forced to use glass where you can kind of crank your amp the same guitar, and suddenly I realize that I like up. I wasn’t in the amp room, I was in the main [WM] Well, that’s a wrap for this installment. using this guitar on that song. I didn’t realize it part of the store by the acoustic guitars, and I’ll add that Daniel reached out to double-check would do that. I think the limitations can be a there was this elderly gentleman next to me. that he hadn’t ‘shred-shamed’ anyone, and I gateway to a lot of creativity if you allow it. He had an old Gibson and he was thumbing assured him he hadn’t. If you want to make a through cowboy chords, like C, G, F. And ten living playing the guitar, much of what you’ll get feet behind us some guy was just cutting loose hired to do will fall below the twelfth fret! [WM] Any funny stories you care to share? and shredding, playing as fast as he can, and [Daniel] I have a funny story, and I don’t want his amp is so loud and he’s just going crazy September 2018 WorshipMusician.com 51