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Hi everyone,
I’m looking for a lesson or pdf material that summarizes in one place the scale and chords (in multiple positions up the neck) for a given key. I’m particularly interested in trying to then practice each of those chords (triads I would think) in a common position to drill the shapes required to do say a 1/4/5 sequence. Finally, I want to try to connect the expanded caged shapes / pentatonic scales to each. Any idea if a “summary” like this is available?
Hope this makes sense.
Thanks!
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You can try https://songnotes.net/tools/fret-monster or https://www.all-guitar-chords.com/scales to see if they got what you’re looking for.
Joe
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Hi everyone,
I’m looking for a lesson or pdf material that summarizes in one place the scale and chords (in multiple positions up the neck) for a given key. I’m particularly interested in trying to then practice each of those chords (triads I would think) in a common position to drill the shapes required to do say a 1/4/5 sequence. Finally, I want to try to connect the expanded caged shapes / pentatonic scales to each. Any idea if a “summary” like this is available?
Hope this makes sense.
Thanks!
BrianIt’s funny you should mention this. I’m in the process of creating my own summary of this for myself. It’s really good to work through everything yourself, but you might not be at a stage where you can do that yet.
A good exercise for chords is to work through them from scratch. All you need to know is the chord formulas and from that, you can find any chord you can imagine provided you know the notes names on your fretboard and you know the major scale.
major: 1 3 5
maj7: 1 3 5 7
dom7: 1 3 5 b7
minor: 1 b3 5
minor7: 1 b3 5 b7By knowing your formula’s you can also create the arpeggio’s in addition to chords.
This chart has a few more common chord formulas as well.
The main land mark shapes for CAGED have scales associated with them as taught in many of Brian’s lessons, but you’re right, we need a one stop shop for all of that information in pdf form. I have my own notes that I need to reduce down to the bare essentials. Right now, it’s spread out over many different notes that correspond to the lessons.
Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.
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The latest lesson EP 629 just nailed what I’m getting at. What would be super useful for me would be a pdf “summary” or “cheat sheet” for the key of D, with the scale (i.e. the notes – thinking in root/third/fifth/flat seventh/etc. is great and useful but I’m still trying to memorize the dang notes on the fretboard, so a quick reference would help me slow down and really soak in what I’m practicing / targeting). The CAGED shape of each 1/4/5 chord. And the major/ minor pentatonic shapes were playing over. Brian mentioned it maybe being overcomplicated in the lesson, but understanding or just being aware of the 4/5 minor pentatonic scale locations and choosing to keep it simple or pivot into those shapes is really cool!
What was really interesting was Brian did this in the key of D right on / around the third fret. What I had in mind was a key of G example in the same location. A follow up in the Key of G could be interesting to see how things shift in a different key.
OR, shifting the concept up the neck would interesting also. Presumably, the (CAGED) chord shapes would shift up the neck and then the concept would reapply the same way under different pentatonic shapes.
Either follow up would be interesting to me. I was trying to visualize / study this a bit, and was looking for some kind of pdf summary so I could try to sort this out.
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Have you looked at EP552 yet? That lesson associates each of the five CAGED shapes to one of the five strings (strings 1 and 6 are the same). There is an eight page pdf summarizing the associated scale patterns to each of the shapes. It’s pretty comprehensive. You still need to spend time in each of the shapes to learn them one key shape at a time. Once you know that one shape, it can be shifted to any key or you can shift the scale patterns to the fret location you happen to be on. This is exactly what EP552 is all about. I think it’s a ground breaking lesson that needs to be thoroughly absorbed.
Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.
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