[Dewy]

If I capo'd perhaps it wouldn't make any difference at all. I'm not good enough to "compensate" on the fly for the step up when I'm playing...

If the tune is in G I would be "Playing" G#... and I could keep up for a while, then would slip into confusion.

And if I "wrote" the lick around G then everyone would be playing in F# and have to pick alternate chords for any open chords I do.

I think I need to get a Capo...