Unlocking Major CAGED
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Welcome to the Unlocking Major CAGED Course. If you've ever wondered about the power of the CAGED chord system, this course is the place to start. At Your Guitar Academy, we firmly believe that the CAGED system is the gateway to playing in any key, using any scale, chord, or arpeggio across the neck. Imagine effortlessly playing smooth lead lines that seamlessly navigate through any backing track's chords. This course lays essential foundations for mastering the CAGED system, providing daily exercises and practice routines in a guitar gym-style format to make this knowledge second nature, with an additional focus on using it musically!
We kick off with our E shape CAGED chord. This feels like the best place to start as it’s built from the root note on the E string, and is the most common chord of the CAGED chord system.
We now move onto our D shape CAGED chord. This isn’t quite as easy to find as the E string shape, but will rapidly help you learn the D string notes.
We now move onto our C shape CAGED chord. This is Dan's favourite of the 5 CAGED shapes, and can be easily found on the A string.
We now move onto our A shape CAGED chord. This is another very well known shape, as it’s one of your barre chord positions, and can be easily found on the A string.
We now move onto our G shape CAGED chord. This is the least well known shape, but arguably one of the most useful, as it contains pentatonic box 1.
In our final unit, we draw all the shapes together to allow us to play in just one area of the fretboard. This will allow us to have total freedom over what we play, without having to jump around the fretboard to find the same chord shape.