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This Issue: CAGED Ideas Part 1

Learning all the chordal and melodic options on the fretboard is a lifelong task, and the ‘CAGED Chord’ system is a great way of exploring the scales and chords. The premise of CAGED is that there are five chord shapes to cover all ways of playing a chord. From there, we subdivide into minor/7th/maj7th/9th and so on. As well as the different chord shapes around the fretboard, there are, of course, scales, arpeggios and patterns that can link not only harmonically with different chord voicings, but geographically in the same place on the fretboard. Here are three to get you started.