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The CAGED system brings the fretboard into order and this helps to increase the speed at which you can learn and memorize chords. It addition it helps in the process of learning the major scale and makes learning other scales and modes a much more efficient process.
- What can you do with a caged system?
- What is the caged system?
- Is the caged system for beginners?
- Does the caged system work for minor chords?
What can you do with a caged system?
The CAGED system utilizes that same logic. The trick to the CAGED system is to visualize the chord shapes without the capo. This is easily done by memorizing where the root note for each chord shape is located. The root of the E shape is the open 6th string.
What is the caged system?
A system for playing notes up and down the guitar fretboard by memorizing fingering positions for these specific chords: C, A, G, E, and D. You can play any chord higher up on the fretboard by playing the next shape in the sequence.
Is the caged system for beginners?
Also known as the 5-pattern system, CAGED is simply the chords C, A, G, E, and D. These five chords are chords every beginner learns right away and the idea behind the CAGED System is that these five basic chord shapes can be repeated all over the neck in order to make any chord in any key.
Does the caged system work for minor chords?
The CAGED sequence can be applied to minor chords just like you applied it to major chords. ... Make an E minor triad by placing your 3rd finger on the 7th fret of the 5th string, 2nd finger on the 5th fret of the 4th string and 1st finger on the 4th fret of the 3rd string.
