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            "excerpt": "A capo is a clamp across the neck that acts as a movable nut. Placed at fret n, it raises every string by n semitones, so the shape you finger sounds n semitones higher than its name. A G-shape chord with the capo at fret 2 sounds in A. To find the sounding…"
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