As many of you know I make play along videos with chords and lyrics. I do not try and get them 100% “correct”. I try to get them so that the average campfire guitar players can strum along.

So if putting a capo on makes a song easier to play then that is what I do. And if leaving off the Asus diminished half passing chord makes it easier to play, then that is what I do.

I remember in a guitar lesson years ago the teacher telling me I could substitute the relative major/ minor in a song anytime I wanted. That completely blew my mind and I have happily been doing that ever since.

I don’t think there is a right or wrong way to play a song. There is only someone else’s arrangement and your arrangement. I don’t think that someone else’s arrangement (even if that someone else is the composer or somebody famous) is the only “right” way to play a song.

Interested to learn what others think on this topic.

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