In this concise video, guitarist and worship leader Rick Lee James demonstrates and reviews the Thalia Capo, a heavy‑duty, squeeze‑type capo. He explains that the capo features a custom‑made fret pad (e.g., a #12 pad for Taylor guitars) designed to match specific neck radii, which helps keep the instrument in tune when the capo is applied. Rick shows how the capo is installed by squeezing it onto the neck, can be positioned at the nut for open‑position playing, and allows rapid key changes—sliding up a whole step smoothly without detuning. He contrasts it with generic capos that often cause tuning issues. Appreciating the product, he thanks Thalia for sending the unit, declares it the official capo for his upcoming tour and for songs from his new album “Hymns, Prayers, and Invitations,” and recommends it to other musicians.
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Hello my friends, Rick Lee James here, and I'm coming to you quickly with a review of a product that I really like. It's called the Thalia Capo, T-H-A-L-I-A, and I believe it's at thaliacapo.com, but if you look up Thalia Capo, you will find it. Thalia Capo, you can see it's a very heavy-duty capo. And you squeeze it. That's how you put it on the neck, and I'm gonna show you how that works in just a second here. But if you look, there's actually a fret pad that goes inside that's custom-made for your guitar. And I don't know if you can see that on the camera, but there's a number 12 right there. Maybe I can focus in a little bit on there, maybe not. But the number 12 fits Taylor guitars, which is what I'm playing right now. They have a guide that comes with it They're actually custom made for different guitar neck radiuses, and so if you use a certain guitar, they actually work to, in effect, keep it from going out of tune whenever you're using the capo on that particular guitar. I'm going to put this on my guitar neck right now, and we'll have a look at— the design is really cool. You think it's not going to squeeze at first, it's a little tight, but it's just a really heavy-duty structure, and you can put it up here actually on the nut, and you can just play in an open position just like normal. Okay, so let's say we're playing, but I want to do a quick change. I want to keep with that same pattern I was playing and not worry about a different place. Let's go up a whole step, and now I'm playing, and it's just a Really easy way to slide it. And if you are in the middle of a song or a quick song change, I mean, it's— you can see how fast I can change it here with ease, and it's not causing it to go out of tune, which I love. A lot of capos do that because they're kind of made for any guitar and they don't necessarily keep the fretboard from going out of tune. I love about this one that it just keeps it in very nicely, keeping it in tune. So I plan on using this new capo, and I'm very appreciative of Talia Capos for sending this to me, and I wanted to do this little demo for them. They have a great product, and I really believe in it, so I'm gonna be using it on tour. I'm gonna be using it whenever I play songs from my new album, Hymns, Prayers, and Invitations, on the road. It's gonna be the official capo of Rick Lee James. I gotta say, it's a great capo. I mean, it's got a great way to be able to I mean, just being able to move with that ease is really wonderful. So thanks, Talia, for making a wonderful capo design, and you'll be seeing me use it as I'm out on the road or leading worship or wherever I may be using the capos. So, great product. All right. Gonna slide it back down here in open position. New key, now here we go! So that's it from here. Tāle a keipos!
