In this video I explain what the all-important CAGED System is all about. The CAGED System is the key to finding your way around the fretboard.
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I wonder if anyone else is lost starting where/how F fits in the CAGED?
awesome video! this made a lot of connections in my brain for me. playing guitar and understanding guitar are two different things and videos like this definitely help me understand much better
very helpful thank you!
really good video. As long as people realise that there is no 'easy' way to learn guitar and there's no substitute for practice. But this is a great way to learn chord shapes, nice one Kirk
Hi, I'm just wondering if you know all the notes on the fretboard by heart (and find for example all the C, E and G's that way) or if you just memorize all the shapes?
and what do you recommend doing? 🙂
i never learned this stuff and I've been playing for over 30 years. I can play the pants off of 99.9% of people
I do not get it .Sucks butt I must need to find the lesson that would come before this
Great vid man, very well spoken.
last one. Sorry for asking so many questions… How do I solo out of chords going everywhere on my fret board? Should I use a caged system or what?
if i get this caged system, will I find fingerstyle arrangement easier? cause it takes so long to arrange a fingerstyle song without caged
aye at 5:45 u know how u show all the scale for each chords how do u do that… without making.a mistake? I've watched this over and over again and i still don't get how the chords come out of caged system.. please help (I'm really good at fingerstyle but don't know these…)
The "C" chord isn't a C. It's a C/G (C with a 2nd inversion)
smooth style bro. i wish the internet was here 25 years ago lol when i first figured out this but its always good to hear someone with a different perspective on improv lead solos and what they tend to lean to or when your searching in your head to find a new riff in the mist of a lead to always find your 1 3 5 s in whatever fret postion you happen to be close to finish off a riff. thanks for your insight
The narrator rules. Listen closer.
I need help. I'm decent at playing guitar and I can play fingerstyle but I don't understand the number 1(root?),3 , and 5 and why they're called major chords. Im self taught and I'm trying to learn music theories but I'm just clueless in these
Wonderful! subscribed
Guthrie Govan sent me here. I understand this is a good way and exercise to learn the fretboard but little musical value. In the end solo, are you using the system to dictate what you're playing to show the system at work or is there something more going on? Or is the point of the CAGED system only to learn the fretboard to open up possibilities? Thanks
sound and fury ….signifying nothing….if this ''helps one understand western music'' ….you are lost ….bye bye ..
4:14 Can someone explain what he's playing there?
So when you use the CAGED system to solo over chords the main takeaway from this video is to know what chord shapes happen at different roots across the neck. That way you can solo over chords without having to always play pentatonics with a 6th string root note or rely solely on scales to stay in key. You can play the c power chord from the A string root (3rd fret) and it will be the "open A" shape of C and all those notes that are a 3rd or a 5th from there in the chord will be good for playing. I think that is the general practice of the CAGED system. Knowing which chord shapes happen where allows you to play a variety of notes without having to move your hand much on the neck or feel stuck at a certain spot without knowing where else you can play..
thank you mr. Kirk!!! big help…..
30 years I've been wondering about this but not getting it… until now – thanks! it's opened up a new door in my mind!
I've been hearing bits and pieces about this caged system for almost a year and never had the conviction to learn it until I ran across this <10 minute video, and I have a completely new understanding of the fretboard that I can work from now and didn't have before. Thank you so much!
I bought a guitar book 3 years ago, and it had a chapter named CAGED system, I read it thousand times but I´ve never understood it.
Today 3 years later, I watched this video and fully understood everything.
you´re a genius kirk! thank you!!
You lost me in the first two minutes. The diagram of the fret board is not the way it looks to a student when he is facing an instructor. The nut would be on the right and the bass E string would be on top and the notes going up the fret board would run from right to left. a lot of times it is difficult to determine which fingers are pressing a string. It also don't help to show 4 or 5 little bitty cord diagrams making the student try to find the right one then try to catch up to the instructor. The only diagram needed is the one being played.
Damn… this is awesome! Thanks so much. Subscribed instantly.
you are a fucking genius
This makes no sense to me. Guess gotta learn all the theory and terms first and coming from a country where we used do-re-mi… I still can't wrap my head around the ACDEG etc system.
yah thanks here as well!