New Lesson! This is kind of a big deal for me to share - The CAGED System for Guitar Explained

Help!I'maRock! said:
As I mentioned last time we talked, my kid is in full blown Beatlemania. I finally told him on Sunday he can no longer strum aimlessly in Open G and I've headed down the self-immolating path of teaching a 5 year old how to play power chords on a 1970 Stella acoustic. I'd be interested to see which songs you're using. Feels like it's more appropriate to something like Yellow Submarine than Please Please Me.
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Yellow Submarine is a great song to start with once they have a bit of coordination with the open chords, and you can start discussing 8th note strumming and counting notes of longer duration, too. I've been teaching that one quite a bit. For the triad stuff, I've been using "In My Life" and this week we are doing "Oh Darling".
 
Mark Wein said:
Yellow Submarine is a great song to start with once they have a bit of coordination with the open chords, and you can start discussing 8th note strumming and counting notes of longer duration, too. I've been teaching that one quite a bit. For the triad stuff, I've been using "In My Life" and this week we are doing "Oh Darling".
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@smurfco ruined Oh Darling for me. :(
 
I didn't learn using the CAGED system.... but more a mish mash of scales in different keys in different places and I have a bunch of favorite places to play different chords......


.... but once I started transposing songs to play with different bands based on the keys I wanted to sing in, or to make it horn friendly, or to create mashups in the same key (all of that said, too many guitar players are hung up on only knowing a song in one key. That really fucking blows... because if you're playing music with other musicians and someone is tuned to Eb or a singer is in a different key... you should be able to adjust on the fly :annoyed: )

I have dabbled with the CAGED system now because I love funky 7th chords... and when I think in "G" on the guitar, I get this cool root triangle on the High and lowE string, with another root a whole step up on the D string... then move that whole triangle down a half step and I've got all 7ths in that same triangle...but up two whole steps is my Am shape that does 3rd, 7th, 5th, 7th. 3rd... and then I can "caged" out in either direction from those two starting points. :grin:
 
Though I have been following loosely the vids you have been posting, I am going back and doing the paper/book work I skipped as I did not hop on this train until after you had left the station and were past the first 5 or 6 stops. will work at it a bit at a time, and then work though each lesson again, as I continue to listen to the new stuff, until I catch up. I feel I am too far behind not to do this work in the beginning that I missed. It is good stuff.
 
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