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In this week’s guitar lesson you’ll learn how to play a 1-4-5 Blues composition out of the D shape from the CAGED System. This video connects the chord shapes with the Minor Pentatonic pattern, showing how they’re all connected.
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I kept hitting refresh to see when this lesson was going to drop. I have been working on some older lessons on the blues. I can’t wait to dig into this one. I would never approach the blues using the D-Shape, but what you showed us here works. It’ s just a little harder to do that stretch D7, but it’s easier than the stretch A7 from the 2nd fret. Now mix all this in with what you already know with the blues an you have some nice variations. Nice micro lesson.
This sounds great! I love the CAGED lessons! Thanks Brian
more take aways like it
These are better than a ML. These caged fretboard orientations are excellent. Please keep them coming. Id love to see some arpeggios included if you would. Thanks!
This is great. I think I need a lot more practice with hybrid picking…
Thank you Brian, opens up a nice melody/chord arrangement I don’t normally use…I like it very much…
I really enjoy working with CAGED; I feel like I’m making a lot of progress. Everything is becoming clearer. Thank you, Brian.
Blending some of these licks with the c-shaped blues from a few weeks back. Keep ‘em coming!
I dont understand the format? 14 bars.
Hi – The way I think of it is a standard 12 bar structure and then adding a 2 bar tag using the 1 chord to create an extending ending. Think you could use the same format to add a longer turnaround and then loop back to the12 bar structure..
Don’t worry about the number of bars, that’s honestly irrelevant.
So cool! This lesson lit up a lot of musical ideas. I like that you are taking us into some under appreciated areas of the neck. I love the sound of the dominant 7 hiding in the d-shape G. Excellent follow up to the C-shape blues lesson. Is the a G shape blues lesson up next? Lots of fertile ground in the G shape! THANK YOU Brian!
As always BRIAN. You explain it so perfectly. I look forward to getting some time to practice this. I’ve really been able to learn the fretboard through your lessons. Your most recent lessons over the past few years have been especially intuitive and thoughtful. That said I enjoy Watching all of them. Thanks so much!
Finally an ah ha moment. I’ve been at this for years and this is the first time everything seemed to gel. Get the 1,4,5 chords in the same neighborhood (the d shape works well), map out the flat 7’s. Get a blues scale you like also in the same neighborhood. Noodle a few rounds of 1,4,5 then add the flat 7 chords to the noodling rounds, when comfortable with this throw in a few licks from your fav appropriate scale. Viola, the blues
Yes! Great new take on voicing and pattern 2!! More variations like this one ! Thanks Brian!
Merci Brian pour toute la culture artistique musicale que vous nous apportez depuis des années Continuez à nous apprendre la guitare,
Manuel,
Enjoying this lesson modeled around the “D shape” of the CAGED system. A shape that I have often ignored.
so happy for this lesson. I was hoping you would go on with the CAGED system shapes idea.
great ES 175…dog ear single P90..is it from the 50’s?
yes, 1950 (I think)
Hey Brian,’ after enjoying your lesson on blues in the C shape , I was so hoping that you would follow on with the other positions of the caged system. I’m getting a lot out of this and so hope you will continue to do the other positions in future lessons.
Love this Brian. It’s exactly what I had hoped for when you did C shape a couple of weeks ago. Hope you keep going with this. In my opinion it’s much more effective for learning than a series you had done in the past on the CAGED shapes showing the major scales, pentatonics…and arpeggios.
Another great lesson on showing us how the pentatonic scales and the CAGED shapes are connected
. Very cool.
That opening lick sounds awesome! Great guitar tone.
SF
I like this series of shape based videos, helps round my playing. related to D, how about an open-root string blues in D? Only normally see those in E and A, perhaps there is a reason for it not being used?
LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! these microlessons! please keep going and do the same for the other 3 shapes. I know you’ve done other CAGED lessons before, but these last 2 microlessons have made me understand the relationships of the shapes/chords/scales better than anything else. Thank you Brian!
Great lesson. These chords( triads ) are shapes I normally don’t use and really didn’t know. This will be great to learn the middle triads. One step closer.
My D drawer desperately needed filling.
What a great idea Brian, to create cool blues based on the different caged shapes and their neighboring chords and scale tones. It’s very effective and a fun way to reveal fretboard magic, e.g., my answer to your question of where would I play a G Blues was to naturally base it on the “C-shape” G7😉. Also, it’s super instructive just to watch and hear you play!
Thanks, Tom
Another thoughtful lesson which for me almost created areas between ‘normal’ CAGED shapes. Thanks Brian