Hotel California uses several chords, some of them will be revision, others totally new ones. Usually, you would place the capo as close to the fret bar as possible, but since the space between the frets gets smaller and smaller as you move up the fretboard, remember not to place it too close to the bar, so your hand has enough space to hold down the chords.Īnd many chords there will be, my young padawan guitarist :-). Firstly the correct use of the capo, which is placed onto fret 7 of this song. You’ll be learning and practicing several techniques in this lesson.
To learn how to play this cover of the song, you’ll be needing a guitar capo, so if you don’t have one yet, I suggest you buy one now at your local music shop or online, and watch this lesson after it has arrived. Hotel California was a Grammy Award-winning hit at the end of the ‘70s and is still one of the best-known songs in the world.
With our guitar tutorial on Hotel California, you will learn these guitar skills: