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- What key is the caged system in?
- What is an E shape in music?
- What is the point of the caged system?
- What is an E shape in guitar?
What key is the caged system in?
By playing the five major scales in the key of F, the 'D shape' of CAGED becomes the lowest possible starting point. As should be pretty obvious by now, each scale shape we learn is 'moveable', which means that we can use the exact same five shapes for every key, but we need to change positions depending on the key.
What is an E shape in music?
Position 1 vs E Shape
Position 1 / E Shape means in practice that the root note of the chord is found on the 6th string (in this case the note F) and the majority of the notes are found further up (toward the bridge) than the root note (more on this later when we discuss the relationship of scales to CAGED).
What is the point of the caged system?
The CAGED system works by using common open chord shapes to map out the guitar neck into five distinct sections. It helps simplify the fretboard by revealing the relationship between common open chord shapes and note/interval arrangement on the guitar.
What is an E shape in guitar?
The E Shape chord is one of the most widely used barre chords. I call this an “E Shape” Chord because the shape of the chord mirrors that of an E chord in open position, but you could also refer to it as a barre chord with the root (or primary) note on the low E string.
