From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs

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Using the capo: Part 2

Using the capo: Part 2

- Some people like to use a fifth string capo, which is a metal bar that goes along the side here and is a little metal piece that slides along it and you can tighten up the little screw on the side. Let me get off this for a second. And you bring it to the seventh fret and then tighten the screw on the side. Or you can do B flat if you go up a half step, or one more fret higher to the seventh fret here, for B. Or one more to C. And in a way, it's very easy, because it just slides right along, and you just tighten it down wherever you want to place it and you're not drilling holes in the fingerboard here, but along the side, you put a couple of holes along the side to drill in the fifth string capo. A lot of people use this. Personally, I don't care for it because it's extra stuff you have to do to bring your thumb around like this because there's this metal bar here. And also because sometimes the Scruggs back up you'll have your thumb wrapped around the fifth string. And with that…

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