The definitive manual for Liberty FLIP partial capos...Partial capo pioneer Harvey Reid presents the results of his nearly 40 years of guitar fingerboard research. After carefully mapping out the musical possibilities of the nearly 20 types of partial capos that have appeared in recent years, Reid decided to create the new Liberty FLIP capos that clamp 6, 5, 4 or 3 strings. The two volumes of this book guide players of all levels through over 100 hidden ways to use these elegant new tools to play new music.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 altered 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.
About the Author: Songwriter, guitar educator & multi-instrumentalist Harvey Reid has been called a "giant of the steel strings" and "one of the true treasures of American acoustic music." He has absorbed a vast repertoire of American contemporary and roots music and woven it into his own colorful, personal and distinctive style. His 30 recordings on Woodpecker Records showcase his mastery of many instruments and styles of acoustic music, from hip folk to slashing slide guitar blues to bluegrass, old-time, Celtic, ragtime, and even classical. Reid's skills and versatility on the guitar alone mark him as an important new voice in acoustic music. He won the 1981 National Fingerpicking Guitar Competition and the 1982 International Autoharp competition. Yet he's also a veteran musician with a long list of studio and band credits, a strong flatpicker, a versatile and engaging singer, a powerful lyricist, prolific composer, arranger and songwriter, a solid mandolin and bouzouki player, and a seasoned performer and captivating entertainer. And he plays the 6-string banjo and the autoharp like you've never heard. His Steel Drivin' Man CD was voted by Acoustic Guitar Magazine as one of the 10 Essential Folk CD's of all time, in company with Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez and other hallowed names. He has become a featured act at many of America's premier concert clubs and festivals, including The Newport Folk Festival, Merlefest, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the Walnut Valley Festival. Reid has also made his mark on the acoustic music world in other ways. He is responsible for most of what is known about the partial capo, developed all of the popular partial-capo configurations in use today, (including the Esus) was the first to record and publish music for partial capo. In 1980 he wrote the first college textbook for folk guitar.