Reddit thread · r/guitarlessons
CAGED *actually* explained
Clarifies the CAGED system as a method for moving chord shapes up the neck, focusing on E/A/D-string roots to visualize chords beyond open positions.
Excerpt from the original
Listen up. I know I wasn't the only one trying to figure out what the hell the CAGED system was supposed to teach me. So I decided to move on and learn something new and figured it would make sense later on. After rewatching countless videos on the caged system. I knew I was missing SOMETHING. So I asked myself a new question. "How do I play chords up and down the neck?" I already know all my open major and minor positions. I don't give a shit about the other ones right now because my brain is too dumb to understand what "diminished" means, and "7th" means. Wtf? Then I came across a very short video explanning how to find chords. Then it fucking hit me. The CAGED system isn't teaching you to solo (I'm sure it can but that's not what it taught me yet). Or how to play. It's teaching you how to move chords up and down the neck. Ignore the whole "CAGED" thing for a minute and let me explain something to you that made it all very clear for me. And all you experts out there, please don't crucify me for making this dummie-proof. First of all. You only need to memorize the first three strings. E, A, and D. Got it? Let's say, you want to play a G chord somewhere other than the n
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