![]() Try just to play the scale pattern ascending and then descend using the arpeggio without stopping to see what I mean.Īll the CAGED scale patters are shown, as I said above, together with a major chord shape. In all these cases the arpeggio/scale integration seems good visually, but it not as convenient mechanically. The “D shape” covers only the first 4 strings, and so on. This is partially because some of the shapes are good only for few strings: for instance the “G shape” does not cover strings 2,3, and 4: these notes must be borrowed from the “A shape”, but the resulting pattern is not easy to play as an arpeggio. So, what I mean with “not usable”? I mean that the shapes shown for the chords are difficult to play cleanly and fluidly compared to other shapes such as the standard “sweep arpeggio” shapes. The only advantage seems to be that they are similar to the open strings chords most beginners know, but that’s about it. What it’s true is that the scale patterns are superimposed over a major chord shape, but these shapes are not always usable as arpeggio patterns (see below). Below I explain this in detail so stay with me.Įvery time I talk with a CAGED apologist, the very first thing they tell me is that their system integrates scales and arpeggios. The real problem with the CAGED system, as we will see below, is that it’s making you doing a lot of work, so you have the feeling that you are learning something or understanding better, but at the end of the day you are not able to do the things you needed to be able to do. ![]() The problem is not that these topics are difficult, but that the system used to teach them is either limiting you or making thins more difficult. These problems are why most players are confused or frustrated by “scales” or “music theory” on guitar. If the method is “correct” whey don’t you use it? Why do you need to invent a new one? The answer is that, as we will see below, the CAGED method has a number of problems in practical applications. ![]() Both of them, when questioned about it, answered that they used for themselves a method they invented but were teaching CAGED because “it’s the correct method”. I know at least two local guitar players in the city where I live that teach the CAGED system to their student even if they personally are not using it. The CAGED method is now so ubiquitous that many musicians think it the only existing method to learn how to visualize the fretboard. If you want to save yourself years of frustration, keep reading. Well, I have learned the CAGED system too, and I found that it’s actually the system to have some problems that prevents guitar players to reach their full potential. In fact you may actually be using it, so let me ask you a question: do you feel like you are mastering the fretboard completely? It’s incredible how many times I hear a negative answer to this question, followed hastily by: “but it’s me, not the CAGED system. You have probably heard of the CAGED system for learning guitar scales. ![]()
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