The CAGED System For GUITAR (my thoughts)

CAGED is the triads, double stops, and chord shapes up neck.. It all leads to each other. The full chords all broke down and connected. Joe Pass was a believer of it. Ricks approach is awesome of course but getting kids early on to understand and learn the neck - CAGED is a must imho.. It also helps in learning sweeps.. If only someone had shown me CAGED when I was in 3rd grade.. I see it as a fast track to getting into neck knowledge and chord/scale understanding. Just my 2 cents..

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YES RICK! I was so happy to hear you say to get the CAGED shapes and break them into groups of three strings because that is EXACTLY what I get my students to do when I start looking at chord shapes across the neck 😊 we start with the CAGED concept then do exactly what you do, and learn about the different inversions! It can be tricky at first but it's so satisfying to see them get it and add it to their playing!!

The "CAGED" system helped me A LOT, in the beginning. Learning guitar & all phrasings and inversions of EVERY chord is made easier for beginners who have learned the basic chord shapes& learn to regard the "pointer" finger AS THE NUT. Rick is a "ZAPPA LEVEL" musical interpreter, and he's showed me more digestible musical info that could be used than anyone else. Peace Out, Rick! Love You!!!

You are possibly the best music teacher on YouTube. I've been trying to wrap my head around modes for years and thanks to you and your videos I'm just now starting to understand how to use them

Hey rick I just want to thank you for making these videos!!!

Triads, arpeggios learning the notes, major scale is where I’m at. Thank you 🙏As always, you have a great perspective

I rarely write comments, BUT. This helped me so much, i always thought of learning the triads/caged system ect. too difficult or boring, so i put it off, but the way you explained it in this video i literally sat and did all of the shape/triad excercises on C major for an hour to a 1 chord backing track and instantly felt like i know them by heart. Then i tried it in D and it was even easier, because i knew how the intervals looked on the fretboard. If anyone practices this for all keys its worth the time for sure, so GO TRY IT NOW! I can't thank you enough for this Rick!

Much Love Rick, this videos are helping me thru seriously tough times.

Rick, I'm a huge fan. I love your passion for music from the 20th century. Rock, blues, jazz, etc. You cover tons of bases that I wish I had more access to their resources. Again, thanks for your hard work.

Good god to think I used to have to watch TV instead of stuff like this. Thank you YouTube! Long live King Beato!

This seriously helped open up the fretboard a little bit more for me . Always enjoy your videos and the way you teach. THANK YOU RICK :)

Enjoyed this video Rick. After years of just winging it, I have been starting to actually learn the instrument. You seem to enjoy playing it, and you are a very good teacher. Thanks. Love this stuff. Will pick up book soon.

just picked up the Beato Book bundle. Thanks for all you do Rick!

dang, missed it live, your videos are incredibly helpful. thanks Rick

Just bought the book. Can’t wait to get stuck in. Thanks Rick.

Fretboard Logic book by Bill Edwards is where I first heard of the "CAGED" approach to guitar and the idea was simply to stop trying to force guitar students to learn their instrument the way most other instrument's students do, namely by using the piano as a guide when it simply doesn't apply logically to a guitar's tuning or fretboard. So he came up with a basic approach that anyone who already knows how to play the "cowboy" open chords, C, A, G, E, and D can easily grasp and immediately begin to apply to the rest of the fretboard. It was never intended to be the end all be all. For me, completely self taught by listening to records and copying solos etc, I found it filled in vital missing parts of the neck that were uncharted territory and opened those new scales and chord shapes to add to what I was already doing but made sense of it all as well. Too many instructors are like the Monty Python skit: "How to play the flute, well, you blow in one end and run your fingers up and down the little buttons!"

its about knowing each mode in each given shape. I feel as if the CAGED system allowed me to see the relation of intervals between separate chords more clearly. Also I feel as if the CAGED system gives you the ability to highlight chord changes more fluently, rather than playing in a given mode. Just depends what your going for.

Just found your channel. Thanks for doing what you do!! Stoked!! I’ll buy the book soon

This is brilliant I’m applying all this to bass. I’ve always practiced moving around the neck hitting open strings but these shapes allow such easy transitions as you move around.