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This is a little composition of mine named after the street that I live on in Australia. Yes, believe it or not, after playing guitar for decades and travelling all over the World, when I finally settled down and bought a home, it was on Capo Lane!

I've been using this piece on the 'About tablature' page of this site for a long time, and last week somebody wrote asking if I could post an Mp3 of it, which I did. When I played it again, I realized it would make a good lesson. It has a nice regular pattern to it, and uses open chord shapes ... it's a good guitar étude,or as they say in English, study. I just changed the ending a little bit.

It's in the key of G and the progression consists solely of related chords. Written in Roman Numerals, the progressions reads:

I - ii - | I - IV - | I - vi - | IV - V |
I - ii - | I - IV - | I - V - | I - - - |

You can easily see how the I chord keeps repeating itself in the progression, but the bass line (which begins as a simple G scale) keeps inserting new notes under the chord, subtly changing its flavor each time. If you're thinking to yourself 'There's no chords being played most of time, what's he talking about?', then understand that the combination of bass notes and melody notes, together, form the chord. The more you delve into music, the more you will be able to see everything as some aspect of a chord. 'Capo Lane' is sort of a disassembled chord progression.

The chord symbols indicated in the tablature are simply the basic positions to start with. As always, all the elements of the piece revolve around and are attached to the chord shapes as they come and go. The movie clearly shows that all the chord positions are in the first 4 frets of the fingerboard, so there are no great big leaps to keep track of. It's all very compact.

The upward pointing arrows in the tab indicate the few places where I pluck the chord as a fast arpeggio. The thumb starts it off, then the index/middle/ring fingers follow in very quick succession, spreading the chord out a little bit. It's a subtle thing.

The long tie lines trailing off the bass notes show how the bass notes ring through.


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