Chords for Easy Way To Play "Don't Fear The Reaper" Using A Spider Capo

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Hey there, Don't Fear the Reaper.
_ [N] _ _
_ I did a cover of this song a couple of weeks back and _ _ _ I [A]
played the [Bm] riff that I just played.
I think it [C] lasted for [E] like over four minutes.
_ It's a _ [B] long time to play when you do something repetitive, _ [F] _ _ [G] plus the fingering.
But anyway, I tried to figure out an easier way of [Em] playing it.
[A] But before I get to that, [G] it's a power [A] chord there. _ _ _ _
That's an A [G] power chord, G major, _ _ and [F] then, _ _ _ [E] [F] well that's an [C] F, C, and [Ab] then an open [D] D,
[Ab] and an open [G] G.
And then back up to a G, and [A] then back _ [E] up to an A.
_ [B] And this [F] one here, _ _ _ _ _ it can be kind of stressful when you're doing that for a while.
_ _ [Em] _
[F] _ _ _ [A] Anyway, I [E] _ _
[Bm] use this thing right here, Spider Capo. _ _
It's a guitar capo, but unlike the regular ones, you've got, _ I'll call them fingers.
[B] It has, _ [E] let me see if I can get that focused in there. _
[D] And it has [E] six individual fingers right there.
[B] So you can [E] select which strings you want to [F] use this on.
[Em] _ _ And I put it on here, first fret, or right behind the first fret. _ _
And put [E] _ _ _ _
it right behind there.
_ And then, _ _ they're all lifted up right now, [D] so I just _ [G] use it on the,
[E] _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [B] just on the low E string, right [F] behind the first fret there. _ _ _ _ _
And again, I just leave all the other fingers off the strings there. _
_ _ _ Okay, I'll [A] play it.
[G] _
_ [F] _ _ _ [A] Oops, try it again.
[G] _
_ [F] _ [G] _ [F] _ [G] _ _ [F] _ [G] _
_ [A] _ [G] _ [F] _ [G] _ _ [A] _ [G] _
[F] _ _ [G] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
A lot [Bb] easier to play.
_ [F] _ _ _
And I found out, though, that [E] _ if I put this, push it back _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
in the center _ _ of [E] the,
_ you know, between the nut and the fret there, first fret.
[D] So in other words, I'm just pressing down on the string [E] right in the middle, you know, in between.
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ And you can notice it's, I've got, _ _ [B] I've got to tune it down a bit.
[F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, that's an F.
_ [E] But when I lift this off, _ _ [D] my E's a little bit flat, so I've got to bring it [E] back up. _ _
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Moving it up here _ _ close, _ _ _ so that [D] the finger, [Bm] you know, presses [E] down right behind the [F] fret.
So _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ that's an F.
_ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [D] And that E's a little bit closer to tune, you know, [Em] closer in tune than [F] it was before.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] So, _ [G] _ [F] _ _ [G] _ [A] _
[G] _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[N] _ and _ let me see if I can get positioned over here.
_ _ [F] _ _ _ Get it tuned there.
_ _ _ _ [Dm] But to play this [A] riff, _ _ I do a strict [E] alternate picking pattern.
And by that I mean, you know, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, [Dm] up. _
[A] So, _ _ down, _ up.
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_ _ Down, up.
_ [B] _ _ [F] _
_ So, _ this thing here, it makes [B] it a lot easier [Bb] to _ _ [F] concentrate _ [E] on your picking.
[G] You know, because it makes it a lot more [Dm] simple playing it with this [F] thing.
_ [G]
[F] So anyway, that's a [B] little trick [F] I used to make that a lot easier to play.
[G] _ And a lot of other things you can do [D] with this, but I'm [F] not going to get into that.
Just [D] wanted to get into this one [B] riff here and _ let you in on that.
Okay. _ _
Hope you enjoyed the lesson.
And thanks for watching.
[N] Bye.