CAGED system unleashed!

[Jim R]

I’ve been struggling with the whole idea behind the CAGED system and a light just clicked on. The finger positions of the open chords (chord shapes) are not just about chords and arpeggios. The chords serve as a framework upon which one builds scales with adjacent frets and strings. So they serve as a starting point when positioning the right hand.

Also, the C,A,G,E,D order going up the fret board works well because the high notes of each position can serve as the low notes of the next position going up in the same key.

Both of these ideas make the purpose of the system more plain to me.

[GnLguy]

Hi Jim

Good find, sounds like it was one of the A-Ha!! moments for you – those are always great when they happen

This video was part of an email that I recd today from Premier Guitar magazine and I think that you will find that the info presented goes along well with your post

Keith
aka GnLguy

[Laurel C]

Good for you Jim, those ‘A-Ha’ and/or lightbulbs moments will keep coming. Caged is great for connections. Not only do the 5 open chords make other movable chords using CAGED but also make different voicings of a chord by using each of the CAGED shapes that serves the framework for building scales etc. There was a recent lesson ep 574 on Triads. The essential (12) triads using the E, A and C Shapes which will connect on to what you are doing also. Attached a PDF of these ‘bread and butter’ triads which are good to have in the toolkit.

[charjo]

Jim,
Consider, also, that each CAGED voice is linked to the next voice by the same root note. Therefore, the CAGED system outlines the “octave pattern” over the entire fretboard, the basis for locating chord shapes and triads and scales within a key.
John

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