capo song without a capo?

[Xstatic]

I have a song I want to do that the tab has a capo on the first fret but theres no chords its all single notes and id prefer to make it without a capo.  Does anyone know how many frets I increase the notes by to act like a capo is on? I would think you could play a song like that by just increasing what fret the note is played on.

[Xstatic]

The reason i ask is the tab says put capo on first fret but then it has on the estring open notes and 1st fret notes  which doesnt make sense to me since I thought it would only affect open notes but then playing an open note and 1st fret would make the same sound woudnt it?

[raynebc]

It's traditional to treat the capo as the nut position in tablature, so in your example when it says fret 1 it means to play 1 fret away from the capo (ie. what is fret 2 on the guitar).  If you take away the capo, you could just increase all notes' fret values by 1 to compensate (ie. select all notes and use CTRL+plus or CTRL+Scroll up).

[Xstatic]

Thanks I was tabbing it out for a capo version and I will do your trick to increase the note value for a non capo version.

[Xstatic]

After all these customs  I just now learn when adding in notes manually I dont have to type in each notes fret number I can just ctrl scroll up.   :wacko: better late than never I guess.

[raynebc]

There's tons of controls described in Help>Keys and in the built-in tutorials.  The manual is pretty exhaustive too, but it's probably pretty dry reading.

[Xstatic]

Yeah I should probably zip through it again now that I know what I am doing (for the most part) since the first time I looked at it alot of it was gibberish to my brain.