Tag Archives: caged

So, you know your CAGED chords, arpeggios, and scale shapes, but when it comes to moving around the fretboard, you still feel lost. If this sounds familiar, there’s really just one small piece you’re missing that’s keeping you from seeing everything up and down the neck.

CAGED is a powerful way to navigate the fretboard. But if you only apply it to major chords, scales, and arpeggios, you’re missing part of the picture.

Once you have the basic major and minor arpeggios down, it’s good to expand your repertoire of arpeggios. After all, arpeggios are as plentiful as chords. In this lesson we’re going to take a look at major 6 arpeggios, which make for a flavorful and melodic addition to your vocabulary. Major 6 Arpeggio Formula The […]

If you’ve been a reader of this site for any length of time, you know I’m a huge advocate of the CAGED system. It’s so valuable for learning guitar and it makes navigating the fretboard so much easier. For that reason, I’ve put a lot of time into putting all of the pieces of the CAGED system together. In this lesson, we’re going to go through one of my favorite CAGED system soloing exercises that helps you map the CAGED system to the fretboard in a fun and musical way.

In this lesson we’re going to dive into the E minor chord scale, which is simply the chords that are found in the key of E minor. We’ll take a look at how they’re formed, methods for practicing the chord scale, and some sample chord progressions.

One of the best things about the guitar is its grid-like structure of notes. While it takes time to learn, it’s extremely powerful in providing us with shapes and patterns that can be moved up and down the fretboard to form any chord, triad, scale, or arpeggio of the same quality.

The CAGED system is invaluable for learning the guitar fretboard. It breaks down the fretboard into memorable shapes and patterns that make it easy to learn. In this lesson we’re going to go through some ways to practice the CAGED system to get these shapes under your fingers and enable you to visualize them across the entire fretboard.

Arpeggios are great tools to be used in music, but they can take a little time to get under your fingers. In this lesson, we’ll take a look at a few approaches to practicing arpeggios that not only build technique, but also improve musicality and overall knowledge of the fretboard.

As guitarists, once we learn the pentatonic boxes we seem to immediately strive to get “out of the box” and extend our playing up and down the fretboard. However, what if instead of trying to get out of the box, we seek to maximize what each box position has to offer?