CAGED System for Guitar (Part 1 of 2)

Learn how to use the CAGED system to find scales and arpeggios on the guitar. The CAGED system is a simple system used to organize the guitar fretboard based on the first position chords C, A, G, E, and D. The video uses GuitarGames.net's Super Scale Trainer to demonstrate the origin and use of the CAGED system. Narrated by guitarist William Wilson.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Guitar
• Scales
• Arpeggios
• Fretboard
• CAGED
• System

[guitargameschannel]

All of the shapes overlap, but I wouldn't call them the same.

[guitargameschannel]

The software is called Super Scale Trainer.

[SirLanceMan]

why does the D shape have a root note on the low E string

[guitargameschannel]

The note on the sixth string is not the root its the third of the chord. It is included for reference and helps in building scales and arpeggios across all the strings, not just the top four.

[guitargameschannel]

That's always the confusing part, two letters for one scale or chord. Yes, you can use any of the 5 shapes (C,A,G,E,and D) in the key of C and it covers the entire neck. Of course you can change keys and use the 5 shapes in other keys as well.

[AndreasHaugen]

I Already knew all that, but how do i make SOLO OUT OF THIS!?

[GeorgeCassells]

Awesome, thanks a lot for putting this up.

[metalfreak4677]

Still don't get it. :(

[georgiegogo1]

@AndreasHaugen You use your own mind and create ides and sounds, that come from your own love of music, theory is just a mere foundation to actual playing!

[awsczxfr]

lol wut

[gmlasam]

@cleaningagent101

The C and D are the same shape? To me the are not the same shape at all, far from it.

[kingotaco]

question can you play those chords without barring them. for instance just play it in the shape of the of the chord it looks like. those seem impossible to do when you bar them.

[TobyLoaf]

@cleaningagent101 Because they actually aren't - they seem the same because of the more noticeable cluster of common notes between them than other adjacent chord shapes. For example, between A shape and G shape there are three common notes (on the D, G & B strings). The C and D shapes seem the same because of the more "noticeable" commonality of the G, B & E strings. In reality, the lowest 3 strings (in pitch) - E, A & D, must change, especially when utilizing all 6 strings (aka D/F# shape)

[outofslumber]

@guitargameschannel

As a learner with no specific teacher what Ive ended up with its lots of unorganized info. Im starting to make sense of it, bt only after getting out a big jot pad and a pen and drawing the fretboard with notes, writing out scale notes and looking where they sit on the fretboard. I recently started to get my head round the 5 pentatonic shapes (though not fully) and was wondering if there is a correlation between those shapes (5) and the caged shapes (5). Id guess there is.

[cleaningagent101]

why does no one ever point out that C and D are the same shape?