Sunday, March 22, 2009

#3 CAGED guitar system

Over the past couple of days, I've been working on the CAGED guitar system. It's an intense process of visualizing scales based on the 5, common guitar chord shapes: C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major. http://coldbrains.com/CAGED/index.html is a good resource. But anyways, I'm trying to get into the nitty gritty of logical scale fingerings on the guitar...my recent discovery was that most good scale fingerings for major are not the "3 note per string" thing, but the "3 note per string" with the exception of one string having 2 notes. There are 2 good 3 note per string fingerings...but I'm not sure how they fit in yet. The goal is to have an improvisation approach that is firmly based in a chord system...it may not be CAGED, because symmetrical scales don't really follow CAGED logic...but that's the goal.

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