Ok, you’ve just wined, dined and wooed your way into that hot chica’s heart. And now its time pull out the big guns: a song that will melt the heart of any woman: Tonic’s “If You Could Only See”!

So you whip out your acoustic, put a rose between your teeth and limber up your digits.

Then it suddenly hits you. You need a capo to play this song! And you just sold yours to buy a dimebag! D’oh!

Here’s a quick capoless-fix when the capo is needed on the first fret: Simply Tune up ½ a step:

This should be a very obvious workaround, but often rock-metal centric musicians are so used to downtuning that this might slip their mind.

I haven’t tried to tune higher, but if you have, and your strings haven’t snapped, feel free to comment!