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Hi all,
As a relative new guitar player I am struggling with getting to grips with chord positions using the CAGED system.
Can anybody suggest where I may find printable chord diagrams please.In one of Brian’s videos about the CAGED system he showed us how he divides some chords which could be classed as difficult fingering into 2 grips, whilst all Brian’s video lessons are great, thank you Brian, it’s difficult to get the down by just watching the video, hence the question about diagrams, hopefully printable but not absolutely necessary..
Many thanks, Peter.
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Hey Peter, just go to the weekly lessons page and do a search for “caged”. One of the earlier lessons on the list includes some nice CAGED diagrams, but I can’t remember which one it was. But here’s something I realized during my journey to learn the CAGED positions which might help:
1) You don’t need to know CAGED. You only need to AED, since C and G are fake chord positions. C is just the standard D chord moved down 2 frets, and G is just the standard A chord moved down 2 frets.
2) For now, only learn the major chord positions on the first 4 strings. For that, there are only 3 different chord grips you need to know: The F shape (which is just an E moved up one fret), the D shape where you bar the first 4 strings on the 2nd fret, and the A shape where you bar the first 4 strings on the 2nd fret and put your pinky on the 1st string 5th fret. You can also play the A shape on the middle 4 strings, where your index finger is on the 5th string and 2 frets below your bar.
3) IMPORTANT: In each of those 3 chord positions, learn where the root note is.
Easy peazy!
Sunjamr Steve
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Hi Peter,
I have included a screen grab from Brians lesson on this. I never learned the CAGED system as such but always thought of bar chords having a root note. Brian does mention this but not that much so I will just clarify the point. You need to learn if you do not yet know them, the note names of the sixth (thickest String) an E string which is also repeated in the standard tuning by the by the thinest String the one String (thus you have two E strings) and the A or Fith String (next thickest). Once you know this you cna take the open E chord as seen in Brian’s diagram and move it all up one fret and add a bar across with your first finger and that will give you an F chord and so on up the neck. So I call that a root 6 bar chord because the note that the baring finger makes at the 6th string determines the chord or root name. Likewise the same is true for the A shape but it’s Root is on the 5 string. I find Steve Sunjamer’s description of the Chords a little confusing because what he refers to as an A is in fact an A7 and the D shape is as per the photograph for the open D chord and its root is on the second string. In Steves example when you add your pinky or little finger to the third fret of the one string you change the A to A7. If you mimic that extra fingering at any other of the root five barchords they will be converted to seven chords. This is one great advantage of bar chords once you know the shapes for the fundamental open chord or say its minor shape or its seventh shpe etc you can just play them up or down the neck to get your various different chords. So learning a single shape will get you all of the chords.
Any way I hope that helps.
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