The definitive manual for the ultimate new partial capos. Partial capo pioneer Harvey Reid shares the fruits of his nearly 40 years of guitar fingerboard research. While carefully mapping out the musical possibilities of the nearly 20 types of partial capos that have appeared in recent years, Reid discovered Liberty Tuning, the "Holy Grail" of partial capoing. He subsequently decided to create the new Liberty FLIP capos that clamp 6, 5, 4 or 3 strings. These elegant and exciting new guitar tools are not just something for beginners, and are the ultimate partial capos for any kind of player. The IDEA books show in detail how you can use them to open a staggering number of new musical doors.

Reid invites us to join him in exploring the vast world of hidden music these new capos generate in every fingerboard. The two volumes of this book guide players of all levels through over 110 hidden ways to use these elegant new tools. (This material is drawn from Capo Voodoo Books 1, 2, 6 and 8. If you have a 3-string "E-sus" capo and a full capo, you can still do 45 of the 73 ideas in this book. )

A 5-year-old child can easily use a partial capo, but even very skilled players often find the concept confusing. It’s surprisingly difficult to figure out the best ways to arrange the capos, and where to put your fingers to get the new music. Reid shows how to access the vast, unknown world of new chords, scale patterns, voicings and resonances that partial capos reveal in your fingerboard.

Here are a dizzying number of ideas of how you can use one or more partial capos in standard tuning, plus a much deeper level where you combine them with various tunings. You’ll instantly have a flood of new ways to play familiar chords, fresh fingerings of common chords, plus a startling number of totally new voicings and resonances that have never been available to guitarists.

Like all Reid’s guitar books, this one is overflowing with chords, photos, diagrams, helpful advice, clear explanations and guitar strategy. Reid shows you, as only he can, how to find the music in this mysterious landscape of fresh musical ideas. Also available from Amazon.com with Prime shipping