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Scales.  Learn 'em.  They'll save your bass.

It's a state by state issue, and would be treated as such.

That's pretty much true of every single song you will ever play.

He ain't to bright but he gets things done
he drinks his beer like it's oxygen...

A completely open strum across all six strings in a guitar in standard tuning will produce an Em11 chord.

I don't know what your measure of productive is, but if it's consistently high quality songs, and lots of them, I think you'd have to go with either Paul Simon, or John Lennon.

If you go one step at a time, it is fifths.  If you go one step at a time counter clockwise, it's fourths.  If you go two steps at a time clockwise,  it's seconds.   If you go three steps at a time clockwise, iths sixths, etc.

It's all in the counting, but every interval is represented.  Not just fifths.

Typically when you run scale excercises, you'll do it in "circle of 5ths" order.  That is, you start at C, move to G, then D, then A, etc...  Which is why we commonly call it "The circle of 5ths."

It is more appropriately a "circle of intervals."  It's a tool to help you find the intervals for any given key.  Since we play the guitar, we really dig the IV and V of whatever key we're in, so we call it the circle of 5ths.   

As stated, if you start anywhere on the wheel, and call that your root, moving one slot to the right (clockwise) will give you the 5th of that key.  Moving one slot to the left (counterclockwise) will give you the 4th of that key.

But all the other intervals are there, too. 

2nd is two to the right.
3rd is four to the right.
4th we know
5th we know
6th is three to the right
7th is 5 to the right.

If you're playing in the open position, all the capo is going to do is change the key you are playing in, and you can continue to use the same shapes you used in standard tuning.  If you are playing further down the neck it's going to screw things up if you play an open string.

If you want to use a capo and play the entire neck, you need to be able to barre effectively.

Which chords are giving you trouble?

Wow.

I mean really.

Wow!

Korg tuners are like $15, and they'll do bass and guitar.

Worth the money, and cheap.

Cello is fretless, so it's going to be tough.  Bass is generally an easier technical instrument, but a harder theoretical one.  It is difficult to play bass well without a good understanding of scales and chord theory.     If all you want to do is pound out root notes, it's not difficult.  Guitar isn't really that hard to play once you have your hands trained.