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Guitar chords. Guitar caged. Guitar caged theory. How to use the caged system to create chords on the guitar.

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Once you have orientated yourself to Major chord shapes within the CAGED system you can use this as a basis to work out shapes for other chord types.

But to do this freely, as well as having the CAGED system of Octave Patterns and Major Scale sandwich exercises well drilled you really need to have mastered two further things – You need a good understanding of chord formulas…And you need to be able to spot interval patterns on the fret board.

If you have no idea at all about chord formulas, then a word of caution. It may not help you to try and learn about this subject directly, without first having a solid grasp of the layers of music theory that are really needed to underpin this knowledge. A quick look at the Pyramid of Guitar Music Theory…

…shows that I like to introduce the subject of Chord Formulas about halfway up the Pyramid, only after students have a good grasp of the Major Scale, and of Key Signatures.

And this is because, in my experience, guitarists mainly get confused on this subject because they have tried to learn about it before they have put these essential foundations in place.

Once you understand what an interval is and how intervals work as the building blocks of all chords, then it helps to learn a trick or two about how to spot an interval pattern on the fret board of the guitar.

In almost all commonly used chord shapes, the 3rd can be spotted as this pattern Once you get good at spotting that, you can quite quickly work out a number of possible fingerings for Minor chords in each of the CAGED system shapes. And you have your basic Major and Minor triads sorted out you’ll find the Major scale sandwich exercises come in handy for working out four-note chords

So a Major 6th for example, with its formula 1 3 5 6, can be created by adding the 6th note of the Major scale to any major triad. Similarly, the Major 7th and Dominant 7th chords can be created by adding the 7th and flatted 7th notes to major triads. And a minor 7th chord can be made by adding a flatted 7th note to the Minor triad.

And this knowledge, this ability to find your way round chord shapes at any point on the fret board, in any key is useful for working out rhythm guitar parts…And can also be useful for chord-based lead guitar ideas…

In these short videos I can only give you a quick glimpse of this, but in the lessons and courses available to members of the SGT site, we take you through every step of the process to work all this out and put it to good use in your playing and song writing.

A bonus of gaining these skills is that they also help you home in very quickly on what you hear other guitarists play. So this knowledge can help cut the time it takes you to work out songs by ear, from hours down to minutes.

Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about this short video – I’ll be very happy to help point you in the right direction to access whatever information you need to gain this level of understanding of the nuts and bolts of guitar playing.

In the next lesson we’re going to head off in a different direction and take a look at how NOT to use the CAGED system. This is where I plan to show exactly how and why the CAGED system has attracted undue criticism through being misunderstood and misapplied.

I look forward to seeing you again then.

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