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Alternatively you can just use a mandolin capo
Personally I think capos are a necessary evil.
There's some songs that absolutely require a capo - try playing Midnight Rambler without capo-ing at the 7th fret like Keith.
There are other songs where I capo cos that's the way I learnt the chords to suit the vocalist and too lazy to learn it otherwise.
the biggest problem with using capos is remembering where to place it for the song - it's very easy to get it wrong (2nd or 3rd fret? erm..) - and if you do get it wrong it's a train wreck.
Saw John Denver on the telly the other month and he was shifting a capo back and forth on his 12 string all night long and I thought how does he remember all that..?!
As someone who's mainly an acoustic player these days I probably use a capo 70 percent of the time. Partly it's about putting the song in the right key for the voice, but it also changes the sound of the guitar in a way that I often like.
The only person who comes to mind who I like who is a regular capo user is Jimmy Vaughan. Something he started to do later in his career to move open string licks into different keys, so very much not a cheat as some people see them.
However, using a capo does have the effect of lowering the strings (i.e. lowering the action) so that the barre chords are not such a strain on the hand. I did this for a while with 'Moondance' when I first switched over from mainly electric to mainly acoustic - the barre chords are not very difficult but I was getting cramp in my hand from all that chord work around the fifth fret and I'd stick on a capo randomly around the third fret to ease the cramping.
I get using a capo to shift open chords to allow the little added bits for more interest, which is when I do use it a little bit.
Just seemed a bit counter productive on something like that.
But ta for all the replies, as always its a great help.
If it were me I'd capo it - the open position D -> A chord change against the 2nd fret capo (hence E and B chords) ringing out is a central motif of the song. Playing it without capo won't sound the same.
Incidentally who told Graham Coxon he could sing?! Flat as a pancake even by indie rock music standards....
As for who told him he could sing, as with nearly everyone who shouldn't sing publicly I suspect relatives saying " oooo he/she/they have a lovely voice, you should be on telly " may have had something to do with it. And I Iike his voice to be honest (it gives me hope)
I did struggle with bar chords when I was a teenager but then the only guitars I could afford back then had 15mm actions ... and I'm not even joking