CAGED System for Guitar (Part 2 of 2)

The second part of our study of the CAGED system for guitar. This part deals with how the CAGED system can be used to find scales or arpeggios in a specific area of the neck (Great for improvisation). It also shows how GuitarGames.net's Super Scale Trainer can be used while learning the CAGED system.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Learning
• Scales
• Guitar
• Fretboard
• CAGED
• system

[guitargameschannel]

Sure, it's software I developed called Super Scale Trainer. It's on my website GuitarGames. See video for address.

[guitargameschannel]

:) Steve from Blue's Clues, very funny! My kids love that show. Glad you enjoy the lessons.

[guitargameschannel]

No, It's William

[guitargameschannel]

A great question. Arpeggios are useful for the same reason scales are. Primarily because they occur all over the place in music. Almost anytime you play a melody and the notes are not adjacent you are playing an arpeggio. Practicing arpeggios is like taking the difficult sections of 100 songs and boiling them down to a super concentrated form. A little arpeggio practice goes along way.

Arpeggios are also used in improvisation. Both Jazz and Rock both make extensive use of them.

[guitargameschannel]

If you look at a lot of great jazz solos you will see arpeggios all over the place. The simplest use of them is to play the same arpeggio as chord. When the key is changing a lot this is a good way to lock in with the chords. A more advance use of arpeggios is to play substitutions. For instance play a minor 7 chord built on the 5th of a 7th chord (e.g. Gm7 over C7) or a maj 7 built on the 7th of a 7th chord (Bb maj7 over C7) There are lots of others. Look up Pat Martino..

[alternateblues]

Very helpful! thank you so much for posting this.

[outofslumber]

OK I get it. He should have said which shape in this area will produce a C-chord. Thats the problem when learning. Certain things seem obvious once you know them, but while your trying to learn this stuff, a general instruction can be taken literally as applicable "generally", leading to confusion and learning things totally wrong. But I get the video now after a 2nd replay.

[outofslumber]

I just dont get the part where he says its a bit low, no its a bit high. I thought the point of the caged system was that its moveable. ANd that really throws me at that point when he says this because its like hes talking about some unmoveable chord, even more complicated is that the chord hes talking about, to me doesnt have its first occurence at that point. Maybe I have to look at this again but that really threw me.

[oaklandfla2]

whew!!!!! Its a bit above me. I can see where iis going to be helpful as I progress.

[AbsoluteKaoss]

Thanks :) Very easy to understand!

[OCTAPUSSYCATASAURUS]

Great tutorial

cheers

[anonymusneo]

i stll didnt get it >_<

[derfilmmacher]

Really cool, nice graphics.

[Chisuz]

"plus a couple a notes"... "quite a few extra notes but"...

well its the extra notes that make it colourful ^^

[patrik1337]

my OCD freaked out when you stopped before the last note played