CAGED system where to begin

[Michael L]

I see quite a few lessons that reference the caged system, but where to start and how to proceed? I’d like to follow the lessons in the sequence that makes best sense.

[ROBERT B]

Here’s a link to a helpful YouTube post.

List and links are in the comments.

[charjo]

Hi Michael,

This was Brian’s introductory lesson to the CAGED system.

A Practical Approach to the CAGED System on Guitar – EP273

There is also a complete CAGED course under the “MY ACCOUNT” and then “MY COURSES” section of the website.

He also did a CAGED series EP 556-560 where he reviewed everything that could be found in and around each CAGED shape.
Otherwise Brian does reference the CAGED system or CAGED shapes within many lessons but for the basics I would start with the above.

John

[Michael L]

Charjo, thank you, very helpful.

[sunjamr]

Longtime member here: For some reason, I mainly only use the CAGED system on the top 4 strings. I guess that’s where most of us spend most of our time when playing improv. Sometimes I only use the top 3 strings, which puts you into the world of triads. My advice is this: Learn the CAGED system, then forget about it and work on your phrasing.

Sunjamr Steve

[Mark P]

Michael, click on “Weekly Lessons”. Then click on “Courses”. Finally, click on the CAGED course.

Mark P

[Michael Krailo]

What I like about CAGED is knowing where all the root notes are and how they connect for a given key or a chord if you play the chord changes.

C= Root on Astring and Bstring or 5th and 2nd strings
A= Root on Astring and Gstring or 5th and 3rd strings
G= Root on Estring’s and Gstring or 6th, 3th, and 1st strings
E= Root on Estring’s and Dstring or 6th, 4th and 1st strings
D= Root on Dstring and Bstring or 4th and 2nd strings

I sometimes think they should have called them the 52, 53, 631, 641, and 42 to make it as generic as possible and keep chord letters out of it.

Work on all the important scales from each of those roots and you will gain a major step up on demystifying the fretboard.

Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.

[Michael L]

Thank you everyone, very helpful.

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