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Module 5 DVD 5
The CAGED System for Guitar
CAGED CONCEPT SHORTCUT
II. Connecting the Chord Shapes (04:02 – 16:36) Take a look at your C chord. Although it is in the open position, you’ll find that it actually has a barre: your guitar’s nut. As shown above, you can transform your open C chord to a D, E, F and even all the way to a C an octave higher by just moving up to different frets and using your first finger as a bar. You also may have noticed that using the CAGED chord shapes, you can play the same chord in different parts of the fretboard. You can even connect them together this way. Let’s take the C chord again as an example. We can play C across the entire fretboard by starting out with the traditional open C chord shape, move to the A shape version (3rd fret 5th string barre chord), then the G shape, the E and then lastly the D shape version, and then it starts all over again at the C shape albeit in a higher register:
Have you observed the pattern? The entire pattern from open chord C to barre chord C using the D shape spells out CAGED! It’s one reason why the entire system is called CAGED. On the guitar, you can play one chord all over the fretboard in five different ways using CAGED. Remember the sequence CAGED and you can play the same chord in at least 5 different locations on the fretboard. While practicing, visualize how each shape connects together. When you’re in an actually playing situation, you’ll never know which kind of C you’re supposed to play.
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Module 5 DVD 5
The CAGED System for Guitar
Let’s try looking into C major formed with the E shape (6th string barre chord). To its left we see the G shape and to its right we see the D shape.
If you start out with an E shape barre chord, the G shape is always behind and the D shape is always in front.
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The CAGED System for Guitar
CAGED CONCEPT SHORTCUT
II. Connecting the Chord Shapes (04:02 – 16:36) Take a look at your C chord. Although it is in the open position, you’ll find that it actually has a barre: your guitar’s nut. As shown above, you can transform your open C chord to a D, E, F and even all the way to a C an octave higher by just moving up to different frets and using your first finger as a bar. You also may have noticed that using the CAGED chord shapes, you can play the same chord in different parts of the fretboard. You can even connect them together this way. Let’s take the C chord again as an example. We can play C across the entire fretboard by starting out with the traditional open C chord shape, move to the A shape version (3rd fret 5th string barre chord), then the G shape, the E and then lastly the D shape version, and then it starts all over again at the C shape albeit in a higher register:
Have you observed the pattern? The entire pattern from open chord C to barre chord C using the D shape spells out CAGED! It’s one reason why the entire system is called CAGED. On the guitar, you can play one chord all over the fretboard in five different ways using CAGED. Remember the sequence CAGED and you can play the same chord in at least 5 different locations on the fretboard. While practicing, visualize how each shape connects together. When you’re in an actually playing situation, you’ll never know which kind of C you’re supposed to play.
GuitarZoom © 2014
1 © 2012 GuitarZoom © 2014
Module 5 DVD 5
The CAGED System for Guitar
Let’s try looking into C major formed with the E shape (6th string barre chord). To its left we see the G shape and to its right we see the D shape.
If you start out with an E shape barre chord, the G shape is always behind and the D shape is always in front.
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