Eli5 CAGED system on guitar
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This is the way
What no one has mentioned is that in the CAGED system, sure…you have a group of five open chords and all chords are movable to different positions (try to figure out how to move a C chord so it becomes a D), but what they fail to mention is that:
Each of these chords have their own major SCALE patterns. Two of them with the root on the 6th string, two have 5th string roots and one (D) has a 4th string root.
If you learn these major scale patterns, you will be able to cover the
“entire fretboard”
in whatever key you are in. CAGED become the “shape” or pattern you use NOT the key.
Example scales in key of “E”
Ok, the “open” scale actually is based on the E chord shape. At the 2nd position though, E scale is now based on the D chord shape. The fourth position (for key of E) is a C shape. The “A” shape occurs at 7th position. Can you guess what shape comes next? If you guessed G you would be correct.
Here is the sequence EDCAG…of course we could have started at the 4th position and moved up in this sequence CAGED.
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