The camera alone is an innovation, keeps the letters and dots on the same spot throughout the video. Pair it with the ghost hands and it is pure genius. Music teachers hate this guy!
This is definitely a guy who once thought, "I want an uninterrupted view of the fretboard without the goofy bouncing around and last second zoom ins by my camera buddy who's already drunk."
I was gonna say that. All video guitar lessons should be done this way. Patent and sell this system! Like with sports on TV now you have the strike zone box, the first down line in yellow, etc. It's better than being there! But being there is still important.
You ever feel like you’ve been in the dark for years, and then someone comes along and leads you out of it in just a few minutes? That’s how I feel right now about this teacher.
For about 5 years I 've been walking by the CAGED door afraid to go in. After watching the first 5 min. I stopped and walked in and its nice in here. ☝
This young fella is a truly amazing teacher. I've spent hundreds of £'s on books and lessons but as David K says above the lad makes it so simple, easy and fun to learn. Well done Scott Paul Johnson.
I’ve been playing for 30 years and this young guy changed my life and I was a decent player. I could learn almost any song with enough practice. Hard songs too. However, learning these concepts changed everything for me. Just amazing.
Definitely extremely helpful. I was just going through some other tutorials earlier and it was hard to see where the fingers were on the fretboard. With ghost hands it makes it incredibly easy to see where the fingers are hitting the fretboard. Keep up the good work.
Seriously, I had to rewind part of it because my mind started imagining how hard it must be to keep overlaying the note names and the notes for each position and then color coding it all and next thing you know I've missed a minute and a half of content.
There are so many comments like this and 11 million views says it all, but I felt I needed to comment a massive massive thank you! This is an incredible lesson. Your ability to make something that can be quite difficult to understand so simple is such a gift. Again, thank you, thank you, thank you! For taking the time to create this!
OK, as a professional bedroom guitarist that has played to an audience of zero for over 20 years, this is for me how cavemen felt when discovering fire make nom-nom food.
Totally agree. I feel like I was kind of instinctively walking around some of this (I'm a visual person so I remembered shapes) but I'd never connected them all like this. So good.
I'm a more advanced player that already knows the map, but I still like to watch videos from different content creators just to see what tricks they might have that I don't know. Wow. CAGED is taught so incredibly succinctly here, it's phenomenal. Everything from how clear his instructions are, to the concepts he shares, to the meter of his voice. It's uber focusing & I'm shocked this guy doesn't have more subs.
Exactly my thoughts when I just watched it! Brilliant! "Back in my day we had old books from the library!" Lol. Seriously, if I had TH-cam back then I would have learned so much faster. I'm.just now piecing it all together after 6 decades lol! Great video! -Old Detroit bluesman
He just has a slightly transparrent image of the fretboard overload on top of the film layer. It's not the fingers that are slightly opaque, it's the second layer of fretboard/strings. You can see the layers seperate when the strings vibrate or when he does a bend of vibratro.
You have cleared up so many things that I have just been totally lost on. I can't tell you how many books, videos, friends, etc. that couldn't explain it in a way that I could grasp. Thank you so much for making these videos.
In my guitar playing journey, I was just beginning to feel like I was stuck by lack of understanding of how the fretboard truly works- and I found this video and wow. I get it now. I’m a student with basically no money so having information like this, and a pdf, for FREE, is one of the most amazing things. Thank you truly, SPJ.
That's what I scrolled down to request-a lesson on how to develop the ghost hands-what an awesome ability I have never seen any other guitarist pull off!
The CAGED system is one of those things every single TH-cam guitarist mentions but never goes into any detail other than it's a beginner thing. THANK YOU SO MUCH! It bothers me so much it's easier to learn music theory than it is to learn fretboard layout from people. Just looking at your PDF it all makes sense because you can also see the chord inversions in the layout as well.
As many other comments have said, this video is what finally clicked for me!!! I've been playing for 10+ years and have always been confused and scared to improvise. I knew the G shape from day 1 but I can't believe no one ever told me about the other shapes!!!
Christ. In my spare time I've been singing and strumming rhythm guitar, finger picking, and even doing the occasional solo from rote memorization, for nearly 30 years. Sat in and did some vocals with the odd band here and there, did some open mics etc... Most people think I know how to "play guitar", but I always felt like a fraud next to lead players. I've never had one of them, any other player, or even several teachers, effectively lay out what the hell they're doing to just whip out an improvised solo. I finally chalked it up to something I'd just never "get". ONE fucking 18 minute video, and 3 decades of banging away finally make sense. I don't know whether to be happy I finally get it, or pissed at how simple it is and how inept everyone else is at explaining it. Both I guess. Well done sir!
I’ve been playing for three years, yes I know it’s not as long as you but I should honestly know this by now since I play really often, my guitar teacher tried showing me but this video literally made my mind click. I feel like I should have paid for this
@@oswaldogarcia5358 yeah, for me, none of this information was new, but it never really coalesced into a usable whole before. Between this and his pentatonic scale video, everything finally came together for me. I knew the scales, knew the chord shapes, knew the neck etc... But it just never gelled together on how they all interact with each other. The way he connected the interrelated bits of theory, with the on-screen graphics, is great. I've had all the physical skills to do pretty much anything I want on the guitar, from flat picking, strumming, to complex finger picking, and could play a thousand songs from Alabama to Led Zeppelin. With the caveat, that I had to know the song, and/or have the TABS. I couldn't just take a random 12 bars blues song and start playing fills along with it. Now I'm no BB or Clapton, but just after a couple days of seeing this video, I can grab any random backing track on youtube and start playing along with it. Something I'd given up on ever being able to do years ago.
Hey Scott ... "just when I thought that i'd learned the CAGED system!" I sat & listened to you explore & explain "things" I'd heard on other sites; they may have the facts, but not the approach you have in teaching ... I enjoy how you present the characteristics of CAGED, that make the light bulb go off inside me; and I'm going after, "oh yeah, now it I see it, now it makes more sense." That's why I've signed onto your Patreon Page ... there's that special "something" you bring to explaining concepts of the music subjects that is satisfyingly clear! At the end of a lesson I know what you were teaching is now in my mental inventory/storage ... Your site is a keeper and thanks for making studying and playing, inspirational and crystal clear! Thanks!
I was just looking to learn Pentatonic Scales and found this. My guy just broke my entire understanding of Guitar into a million pieces and then taught me how to put it back together.
Never fully grasped how the CAGED system was used. As someone who knows the pentatonic scale shapes jt turns out I’ve been using CAGED all along and it didn’t know it. Much easier to pick out chords that go with scale shapes in each key after watching this! Thank you!
Dude I’ve been playing 6 years now…staying a background rhythm player cause I couldn’t ever grasp the idea of soloing or even playing a singular note by itself trying to make it make sense. Within a week of watching this video about 20-30 times a day, playing every minute of the day, (because I got so hooked on this video) I can now solo…by myself comfortably. I blew my mind with what my fingers are doing. He blew my mind with how simple the concept is when broken down correctly and patiently. So I thank this guy, because I lost hope and put all my guitars in their cases and let them collect dust until now. NOW I’m better than I’ve ever been, and it feels great dude. Thank you.
Yeah it helps, but scales will help you a little more to unlock that fret board. Start with minor pentatonic learn the 5 shapes and then learn it in major, and then learn the blues scale and the full major and minor scale. You can use your top 2 strings, your E and A as "airports" to play in any key and quickly get into any position. For example you are playing in key of G and you want to start your minor scale, you'd simple go down to your G note on your A strong and start Shape 4 with your root note and continue your shapes.
Where in the heck did this guy come from? I subscribe to Paul David's, Art of Guitar, Guitar Zoom with Steve Stines, YourGuitarSage with eric Andrea's, and some kid from England that wears glasses he got from Sir Elton John... and in this one video he does a better job explaining CAGED system better than any of these youtube heavy weights. First video I've watched but I'm amazed. Fantastic job. Particularly in how deep it goes (which scales fit over which chords) and how concise it is. I can't wait to see more but I had to applaud this one.
I can't even tell you how many videos I've watched on the CAGED system but this video was the one that made sense. I cannot wait to mess with this!! Sub'd.
i dont know how to express just how much you’ve helped me. im slow, ive rewatched this video so many times until i understood, and i finally do 🥲 thank you thank you thank you, my lord, you’re a blessing. hallelujah!
I just had to pause my tour of this lesson at the half-way to say, "this is the best, clearest guitar lesson I have EVER encountered, bar NONE!" I have surveyed one heckuva lot of guitar lessons. I have studied teaching as well (Master's degree in Education). I take off my hat and bow deeply to you, good Sir! Thank you Scott!!!
Mate, you answered so many questions, that for decades of struggling I was unable to ask, because I had no idea about this technical stuff. Best instructional video I have ever seen. I will definitely be availing myself of you PDF download. Thankyou so much. Kind regards, a new sub. 👍
I'm not a guitarist, but I think it's definitely criminal to watch this video for free. I know CAGED is just as basic as a multiplication table in math (it's just out there that everyone can observe physically) , but it's fairly hard to find someone who can make a video that has a SUPER-DUPER CLEAR explanation in the entire world. The thing is that you use a systematic and organized method to visualise the fingerboard like this, which incredibly insane. This should be in the patron video for those membership. Much appreciated again.
What the fu** just happened.. you just put my good half of my year of learning and trying figure out CAGED system from the books and usage in like 20 minutes videoo,,dude you're genius,, ,.. Your editing and showing all the shapes on the video makes things way easier. omg you're genius man, thank you for your effort putting all this together!
@@libertyconcreteliftingspra933 Maybe English is not his first language? You calm down, you can see by the likes that lots of people agree with this man too.
The fact that you have more of a 'big picture'/ holistic approach to teaching, is what makes this next level. Great video, exactly what I was looking for, for years!
@@jjbast When we can Jaime. When we can. Go easy on us pal. For a lot of us, this is all we "truly" have right now. Without equivocation, Scott Paul Johnson is the Best. Be safe. Be good.
OK punk, I've got a question for you. Where the hell were you 48 years ago when I picked up my first guitar? 48 years of going nowhere fast, and today you casually show up and everything has changed. I have tears of gratitude in my eyes and I am SO grateful you showed up today, the very day I received my Epiphone Nighthawk Reissue, only the second electric guitar I have ever owned. Everything has just changed. Sincere gratitude to you from me for finally opening the door to a whole new world. You're a great teacher, a cool guy and my new best friend.
He must of had a good teacher(s) and was a fantastic student. Probably has a natural knack too. I like this guy! Watched this video and immediately subscribed, liked and blah blah for the interest of supporting material like his. So young to. Damn punk!
It's possible his sense of humour may be more expansive than yours@@madi8181, but either way your point of view is your problem, not mine, nor Scotts either. Have a great day!
It is your goddang fault. Who told you to be born 48 years too early? Now stop whining and practice 40 to 69 hours a day, everyday for 8 months. You will become a "masta"
Everything makes sense now... I have become omnipotent. No but seriously I have seen this video on my recommended for MONTHS and never clicked on it (for whatever reason) and now that I have everything makes sense. THANK YOU!!!
You explain caged in a great way I'm tryi g to absorb I still don't understand when you're moving thru the the different shapes what key you are in Is that determined by the root note???
This is not just the best CAGED video I've seen, but also just the best guitar theory video too. Guy gets straight to the point, no bs, no "you're going to become a metal Jesus in 2 weeks", and lays everything out like I'm 5
Subscribed instantly. This is the most clear and concise music theory video/course/whatever I have ever seen. My guitar teacher would spend hours vomiting information and not teaching and showing the whole picture. Incredible job.
Agreed 100%! Although I still haven't a slightest idea of what it is logically yet! It's still wonderful, and I'll keep watching it till I understand. Bravo!
I learned this from a great player called Paul Foad in 2000. Used to be the guitarist in the great post punk band called Au Pairs, then became a jazz guitarist with Andy Hamilton. He’s an amazing teacher and called his book “The Caged Guitarist”
i started playing guitar when i was 12 in 1963. many years later i wrote my first album in two days. i got a recording deal. i never learned guitar.im starting over and i want to learn guitar. u are the best teacher that i could find.i will sign up very soon. thank u
Mate, I'm not even 5 mins in, but i felt the need to comment. This is hands down one of the best guitar tutorials on youtube ever. The way you break everything down, makes the non sensical become sensical. Fair play.
This is hands down a guitar lesson video. I hands down liked it. It was hands down helpful to me, so I hands down wrote this comment. Please give this comment a hands down thumbs up.
I was so confused ... up to this point. I spent 3 hours watching this 21 minute video over and over again while practicing and it finally makes sense. I’m deliriously happy !!! ... I can’t thank you enough for posting this.
This might be the best caged explanation and demonstration I’ve ever seen or heard. I had to white knuckle learning notes and how chord positions changed. I took lessons from about 11-13 and mainly learned basic chords, some scales, some riffs, some songs, but never was taught proper recognition of the neck. Once I started just practicing on my own it became kind of a natural step as I realized I could play essentially the same thing in different placement. Id recommend this video to anyone learning even if you have an instructor
I saw 11M views and was thinking that's a lot but then I watched it and think it deserves SO much more. I have never seen such a clear and simple explanaition of an otherwise complex topic in my life. You really gave me a new lease of my guitar journey which had stagnated a little
best teacher for CAGED system, one stop for scales,aperggio,petatonic,all roots for any keys. it expand your vision of the fretboard, well done Paul. awesome
The best trick to muscle memorized this is to know where you start your G shape pentatonic from then just apply the C-A-G-E-D shape systems. Just make sure that you have a fundamental knowledge on each guitar strings. Let say if someone asks you to play in C minor key; you would start from the right side of the 6th low E string of the C note (8th fret to be precise) using G shape pentatonic and then just apply the CAGED shape in sequence! Just keep on memorizing and practicing! Now it makes sense to me when I tried it in a day (fyi I just started to learn how to solo on the guitar)😊.. big thanks to Scott for this video and it really is an informative guide video to those who wants to learn how to solo from the scratch! I really appreciate it! From 🇲🇾 with respect!
Best video I’ve seen in so long. Taught me everything and answered every question. I’ve watched like five other videos and none of them made sense except for yours. Thank you so much.
I've been playing guitar for 10+ years and never bothered to learn this, however this made it entirely simplified. I'm glad i'm up at 3AM watching random videos
I’ve been playing guitar for a little over a year. I’ve had the urge to dive a little deeper into the fretboard and you have answered every question. Top notch video. The way you explain thing is extraordinary. Your tempo of teaching is perfect. Not to fast to the point I can understand what is going on and fast enough for it not to get stale. Thank you for this video
What elevates this lesson over the multitude of similar lessons is its clarity. Scott Paul's organization and delivery of the material make it easy to follow. Thank you!
Isn't it amazing and from a Kid!!! Not that he is a kid, I am an old man, I use my college Photo so my old friends know who they are talking to, Some people need to understand concepts because a shape just doesn't go far enough!!!! We need a deeper understanding to make music!!! This guy is going to change the world of teaching music!!
Yo can you stop just casually blowing my mind. Homie is just dropping liquid gold information as if it’s nothing. Thank you thank you thank you for making this video and for being such a great teacher!
Those “dislikes” are the people who think that he should be paying them. :) I’m just happy I found him. Love his description and his A/V work. Really great.
I wish I had seen this video when I first learned how to play ~10 years ago. It's clear cut, concise, and get's straight to the point. In my opinion it's one of THE BEST videos on how to use this system I've seen in all these years. Great job Scott!
I cannot believe I just watched this for free. Man, you really have a gift for teaching and the fact that this video is posted free of charge speaks volumes about your passion for it. I will for sure join your Patron! Again, thanks a million for this lesson
@@ScottPaulJohnson what took you forever to edit is going to help hundreds of thousands in the future giving them this map. Isn't that crazy to think how many future guitarist you (your caged vid) will be the foundation of their understanding of guitar. I think that is the coolest part of the whole thing here. My generation used boring mixes of scales and patterns to practice until this fundamentals are naturally learned thus taking the long way around. Then if one is inclined, does various theories and styles. Can you imagine how strange it was for composers hundreds of years ago to learn music, and its evolution through various transitional instruments, and then to early popular music on, and now internet age learning has fast tracked what took centuries, and now have 5 yr old Satches coming out. SMH
Dude. Decades of trying to figure this out, and you managed to pull it all together for me. Gonna spend a lot of time rewatching this in the near future. So amazingly well done, the overlays are incredibly helpful
Thank you so much Scott. I have watched so many videos of people trying to explain caged but it never made sense to me. You ability to teach it is far and away the best, for me anyway. Thank you for sharing your gifts, brother💛 I really appreciate you posting this
I've seen and read a lot about CAGED, but nothing made the relationship clear like the diagram of the fret board that shows up 15 seconds into this video. I suddenly understood why it's called CAGED, and how all of the shapes relate to each other. The constant camera on the fret board, the note diagrams, and the ghost hand are all brilliant. Excellent lesson. I'm subscribed!
thank you so much, i've been playing for the past 4 months and just started learning the pentatonic scales. this has been so helpful in understanding everything, cant wait to start practicing again !
I am mindblown. That was the single best guitar video I've ever seen after years of playing tabs and only recently starting to learn fundamental music theory. This unlocks the guitar for me.
Go easy on him. Not everyone uses the caged system. I don’t and I don’t tech my students because it’s not as efficient as simply learning the scale patterns.
I'm so grateful for your videos! As a beginner going thru open chord progression practice, I'm navigating the next step of my practice. I appreciate the thorough explanation you offer!
This has to be the BEST video explaining the CAGED system. Why??? Because this guy discusses something that others fail to mention. Which is using the system for chords other than C. He shows how using a G chord for example, would move around the fretboard within the CAGED system. Other videos I have seen just cover this using a C chord then send you on your way. Kudos man. I know this is an old video but it’s nicely done. I’m 50 and been playing by ear my whole life. I have some basics of music down thanks to taking band when I was in school. But I mostly have been playing by ear. Im just starting to focus on learning what the hell I’m actually doing when playing. Lol. This is wildly helpful.
Echoing everyone else here. That was an amazing and clear explanation of CAGED (and how the guitar is laid out). I’ve been playing for decades and it feels like you’re the first person who’s come along and explained to me what the hell is going on. “Oh, that’s why that pentatonic box/position is in that shape!” I’ve been trying to force my brain and my fingers to remember arbitrary shapes and positions, but now I see the logic behind it all, I can map it out for myself. I’m so happy I could cry! Thank you, Scott.
for too long as a metalhead guitarist, ive been trying to step up my guitar game from being a rhythm player, to trying to learn licks and solos. but this is SUPER helpful!!!
@@oklahomajefferson4625 This video is right. Might be that the confusion is between shape and key? You can play any of the shapes in any key. But the G shape as shown here is correct. You can tell because each of the scale shapes contains the chord shape.
Dude you are literally killing me. If been playing and performing for more than 40 years and NO ONE has ever made this quite that clear. You’re killing me man. Thank you
@@zootsoot2006 You get it. They are placed the same place on the neck😊 The pentatonic scales are formed aroud these CAGED-shapes. The same goes for the diatonic scale etc. So, you initially use the scales to play your solos in key, and later on you use the CAGED-forms to target the specific chords in the underlying melody when playing your solos. Chord-targeting gives you solos a “better” sound, compared to merely playing in key. Anyway, you use CAGED for chord tone targeting in your solos 😊
I really enjoy your teaching style. A cross between knowledgeable, humble and enthusiastic. That is what sells these videos honestly. Personality combined with knowledge
I am 58 and have jammed by ear since I was 13. I've played alot of what u teach if not all of it but I never knew what the hell I was doing. now I know how to explain atleast what I'm trying to do. God Bless and thank you!!!
@@cassanateli i mean think about man, most professionals dont even know simple chords and riffs. Everyone learns in the own way/style, iv seen many videos of kirk hammett struggling to play a simple ass riffs but then bust out a mean ass fucking solo.Everyone is different. Im a skateboarder so i like to think of guitar like SkateBoarding, everyone has there own style/steez and there own tricks/licks. Some people can pickup the really hard riffs quick but then sit there to struggle to play a simple G or C chord. Like in skateboarding some pros can literally bust out a 540 tre-flip down a 20 set of stairs but then not even be able to a simple kickflip. Thats why i love SkateBoarding/surfing/skimboarding and guitar, you have your style, your own flow, your own take on tricks/your own way of doing them. I play a left handed guitar and im left handed,which already makes me different from the crowd.
Guit SCOTT not sure you’ll see this but I’ve been strumming for 30 years and I can play more than 200 songs just with open (cowboy) chords and my capo. The reason I’ve played like that is, I have huge stiff fingers - not kidding. In guitar class, other kids could achieve simple scales in a few weeks of hourly practice - but I would practice 4x as much and I genuinely couldn’t get my fingers to loosen up. One of my friends became a musical genius and acted like I just wasn’t really practicing. For recital my professor told me “When you practice, everyone knows it, and when you don’t practice, everyone knows it”, as if I hadn’t been practicing. I intensely and angrily asked, how many hours should I be practicing? He said, “Just an hour a day is all it takes”. I said, “I practice 2 to 4 hours a day, my finger’s literally bleed”. He said, “Maybe you’re practicing wrong”. After a year I gave up and just learned chords off a big poster in my room. As a decent rhythm guitarist I’ve played over 1500 gigs at church (a music set counts no matter where you play it). SO - I said all that to say this… A few months ago I committed to myself to play lead guitar if it kills me. I treated myself to a gorgeous Gibson Les Paul set up a practice station and started learning from scratch again. There was no internet, much less TH-cam years ago so I’m already light years ahead of the game. Well, same stiff fingers BUT I have to get this. I’ve found about a dozen guys that speak a guitar language I can handle (You gotta have the right teacher to excel). But Know this, FOR WHERE I AM - your teaching is priceless. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO TEACH AND PUBLISH THESE LESSONS. I will be bingeing and practicing and bingeing and practicing. It won’t kill me & I will get this. And I will play lead. Thank you Thank you Thank you
The camera position, simplicity of this lesson and ghost hand are literally genius
The camera alone is an innovation, keeps the letters and dots on the same spot throughout the video. Pair it with the ghost hands and it is pure genius. Music teachers hate this guy!
Hell yeah you’re right
This is definitely a guy who once thought, "I want an uninterrupted view of the fretboard without the goofy bouncing around and last second zoom ins by my camera buddy who's already drunk."
100% camera angles are fucking godly
I was gonna say that. All video guitar lessons should be done this way. Patent and sell this system! Like with sports on TV now you have the strike zone box, the first down line in yellow, etc. It's better than being there! But being there is still important.
You ever feel like you’ve been in the dark for years, and then someone comes along and leads you out of it in just a few minutes? That’s how I feel right now about this teacher.
David K seriously. This was a total lightbulb moment for me too. I watched it twice in a row.
For about 5 years I 've been walking by the CAGED door afraid to go in. After watching the first 5 min. I stopped and walked in and its nice in here. ☝
Same here.
This young fella is a truly amazing teacher. I've spent hundreds of £'s on books and lessons but as David K says above the lad makes it so simple, easy and fun to learn. Well done Scott Paul Johnson.
Agreed! Finally I leRNED SOMEHTING NEW ON THE GUITAR!
This is single handedly the most impactful guitar lesson I’ve ever seen
I’ve been playing for 30 years and this young guy changed my life and I was a decent player. I could learn almost any song with enough practice. Hard songs too. However, learning these concepts changed everything for me. Just amazing.
Just want to add on to all the comments...just learned 4 shapes in a matter of an hour that make sense now...
exactly! ive known about pentatonic scaling for many years same as you but not as crystal understanding after watching this video
Same
Ghost hands are literally the most genius idea I’ve ever seen for a lesson video.
ikr. it’s so helpful.
literally that's genius
It's also so subtle I didn't notice until I read this.
Definitely extremely helpful. I was just going through some other tutorials earlier and it was hard to see where the fingers were on the fretboard. With ghost hands it makes it incredibly easy to see where the fingers are hitting the fretboard. Keep up the good work.
I wonder how he made that effect.
i cannot imagine the amount of work needed to edit this video.
Agree! It's really well made.
I can. And daaaaamn... so well made!
Seriously, I had to rewind part of it because my mind started imagining how hard it must be to keep overlaying the note names and the notes for each position and then color coding it all and next thing you know I've missed a minute and a half of content.
Yeah man it is very hard to edit
I’d have to agree this is one of the best guitar lessons ever. Well explained and very easy to see on the screen.
There are so many comments like this and 11 million views says it all, but I felt I needed to comment a massive massive thank you! This is an incredible lesson. Your ability to make something that can be quite difficult to understand so simple is such a gift. Again, thank you, thank you, thank you! For taking the time to create this!
11 million views. I was NOT going to pass this up! 😅
The ghost hand effect was perfect. I usually find it really hard to see where the fingers go in tutorials.
Fantastic idea. Really well executed too.
OK, as a professional bedroom guitarist that has played to an audience of zero for over 20 years, this is for me how cavemen felt when discovering fire make nom-nom food.
LMAO 😂😂likewise....
glad i'm clicking this video
Totally agree. I feel like I was kind of instinctively walking around some of this (I'm a visual person so I remembered shapes) but I'd never connected them all like this. So good.
😂😂😂 I’m with you on that bro!
this is too relatable
I'm a more advanced player that already knows the map, but I still like to watch videos from different content creators just to see what tricks they might have that I don't know. Wow. CAGED is taught so incredibly succinctly here, it's phenomenal. Everything from how clear his instructions are, to the concepts he shares, to the meter of his voice. It's uber focusing & I'm shocked this guy doesn't have more subs.
This video is a MUST for all beginners to see and so for that exact reason we must keep on letting it resurface for the algorithm to keep on promoting
This man has cracked the code on how to film the fretboard. Mad props coming from a film person
He’s definitely a genius in so many ways. Made it look easy.
Exactly my thoughts when I just watched it! Brilliant! "Back in my day we had old books from the library!" Lol. Seriously, if I had TH-cam back then I would have learned so much faster. I'm.just now piecing it all together after 6 decades lol!
Great video!
-Old Detroit bluesman
Yes 👏 From me to coming from a guitar player
@@JadeTwo he is our teacher and a good one at that. And this is how it looks if you are sitting in front of your teacher.
He just has a slightly transparrent image of the fretboard overload on top of the film layer. It's not the fingers that are slightly opaque, it's the second layer of fretboard/strings. You can see the layers seperate when the strings vibrate or when he does a bend of vibratro.
This might be the best online guitar lesson I've every seen.
Sam Friedman - YES it is! I finally understand my guitar... what doesn‘t mean that I already can play it that way☺️
AGREED!! I’ve been working on CAGED but haven’t understood how to link it all together and solo from it; until now. Many thanks
Yep and ive seen every one.
Agree completely Sam!
everybody say that
You have cleared up so many things that I have just been totally lost on. I can't tell you how many books, videos, friends, etc. that couldn't explain it in a way that I could grasp. Thank you so much for making these videos.
In my guitar playing journey, I was just beginning to feel like I was stuck by lack of understanding of how the fretboard truly works- and I found this video and wow. I get it now. I’m a student with basically no money so having information like this, and a pdf, for FREE, is one of the most amazing things. Thank you truly, SPJ.
How the hell am I watching this for free?
capitalism
Don't let him notice
Losel Matos some people actually want you to learn it’s a gift 🎁
In actuality it's paid for when you receive your internet bill, and pay it.
hell yeah
The extra effort of the see through hands is definitely awesome
j'avais pas fait gaffe..... en effet !!!
He is a wizard !!!
That's what I scrolled down to request-a lesson on how to develop the ghost hands-what an awesome ability I have never seen any other guitarist pull off!
It’s not see through hands. It’s a see through image of the neck on top of the hands.
@@Kalle72 - =O
The CAGED system is one of those things every single TH-cam guitarist mentions but never goes into any detail other than it's a beginner thing. THANK YOU SO MUCH! It bothers me so much it's easier to learn music theory than it is to learn fretboard layout from people. Just looking at your PDF it all makes sense because you can also see the chord inversions in the layout as well.
As many other comments have said, this video is what finally clicked for me!!! I've been playing for 10+ years and have always been confused and scared to improvise. I knew the G shape from day 1 but I can't believe no one ever told me about the other shapes!!!
The way you overlayed the image on the fretboard was incredibly helpful.
I subscribed and liked the video. Especially the display live guitar lesson. Wow. Pulling it all together at the end was great!
@@maxkelter3561 It was really the moment when everything makes so much sense and the magic happens. It gives you hope!
The fretboard view should be to the perspective of looking at the actual fretboard as he was looking at it, then it would be perfect.
Christ. In my spare time I've been singing and strumming rhythm guitar, finger picking, and even doing the occasional solo from rote memorization, for nearly 30 years. Sat in and did some vocals with the odd band here and there, did some open mics etc... Most people think I know how to "play guitar", but I always felt like a fraud next to lead players. I've never had one of them, any other player, or even several teachers, effectively lay out what the hell they're doing to just whip out an improvised solo.
I finally chalked it up to something I'd just never "get".
ONE fucking 18 minute video, and 3 decades of banging away finally make sense. I don't know whether to be happy I finally get it, or pissed at how simple it is and how inept everyone else is at explaining it. Both I guess.
Well done sir!
I’ve been playing for three years, yes I know it’s not as long as you but I should honestly know this by now since I play really often, my guitar teacher tried showing me but this video literally made my mind click. I feel like I should have paid for this
@@oswaldogarcia5358 yeah, for me, none of this information was new, but it never really coalesced into a usable whole before. Between this and his pentatonic scale video, everything finally came together for me. I knew the scales, knew the chord shapes, knew the neck etc... But it just never gelled together on how they all interact with each other. The way he connected the interrelated bits of theory, with the on-screen graphics, is great.
I've had all the physical skills to do pretty much anything I want on the guitar, from flat picking, strumming, to complex finger picking, and could play a thousand songs from Alabama to Led Zeppelin. With the caveat, that I had to know the song, and/or have the TABS. I couldn't just take a random 12 bars blues song and start playing fills along with it. Now I'm no BB or Clapton, but just after a couple days of seeing this video, I can grab any random backing track on youtube and start playing along with it. Something I'd given up on ever being able to do years ago.
I feel you man
Metoo
20 years here. Exact same scenario. I know the pain brother! Finally clicked here for me too.
Hey Scott ... "just when I thought that i'd learned the CAGED system!" I sat & listened to you explore & explain "things" I'd heard on other sites; they may have the facts, but not the approach you have in teaching ... I enjoy how you present the characteristics of CAGED, that make the light bulb go off inside me; and I'm going after, "oh yeah, now it I see it, now it makes more sense." That's why I've signed onto your Patreon Page ... there's that special "something" you bring to explaining concepts of the music subjects that is satisfyingly clear! At the end of a lesson I know what you were teaching is now in my mental inventory/storage ... Your site is a keeper and thanks for making studying and playing, inspirational and crystal clear! Thanks!
I was just looking to learn Pentatonic Scales and found this. My guy just broke my entire understanding of Guitar into a million pieces and then taught me how to put it back together.
This is probably the best guitar lesson on the internet
In the world brother
Boom! facts!
Thanks scott it's help me to read a notes. God bless
Accurate
yes
Him: Take it easy, don't get frustrated.
Me: Shreds like a maniac
i so agree! hes the only teacher on youtube i actually can comprehend!
Never fully grasped how the CAGED system was used. As someone who knows the pentatonic scale shapes jt turns out I’ve been using CAGED all along and it didn’t know it. Much easier to pick out chords that go with scale shapes in each key after watching this! Thank you!
I've been a strummer for decades. self taught. Learned a bunch from this, thank you!
I have decided to become a Covid19 guitar playing 72 year old. This has been a really good class for an old maths guy like me.
Te felicito y te deseo éxito.
You are a dude. Respect to you!
Great idea
I am 69 going on 16. This video answers all my questions which I need answering.Thanks very much.
Me too at 69
This HAS to be the best guitar video on the internet hands down.
Not only that, it MUST the fifth-best guitar video on the internet hands up.
Dude this is explained so clearly. You’ve just changed my life
Dude I’ve been playing 6 years now…staying a background rhythm player cause I couldn’t ever grasp the idea of soloing or even playing a singular note by itself trying to make it make sense. Within a week of watching this video about 20-30 times a day, playing every minute of the day, (because I got so hooked on this video) I can now solo…by myself comfortably. I blew my mind with what my fingers are doing. He blew my mind with how simple the concept is when broken down correctly and patiently. So I thank this guy, because I lost hope and put all my guitars in their cases and let them collect dust until now. NOW I’m better than I’ve ever been, and it feels great dude. Thank you.
Dude you literally just opened a massive door for my comprehension of a notes like I’m blown away it all makes sense
Yea it's like
Hotel- trivago
Mind-blownn! I found it out today the caged system has opened my interest in more and more awesome theory about scales
Yeah it helps, but scales will help you a little more to unlock that fret board. Start with minor pentatonic learn the 5 shapes and then learn it in major, and then learn the blues scale and the full major and minor scale. You can use your top 2 strings, your E and A as "airports" to play in any key and quickly get into any position. For example you are playing in key of G and you want to start your minor scale, you'd simple go down to your G note on your A strong and start Shape 4 with your root note and continue your shapes.
@@nickpawsey
im saving this comment, sounds super helpful
thanks dude :)
Where in the heck did this guy come from? I subscribe to Paul David's, Art of Guitar, Guitar Zoom with Steve Stines, YourGuitarSage with eric Andrea's, and some kid from England that wears glasses he got from Sir Elton John... and in this one video he does a better job explaining CAGED system better than any of these youtube heavy weights. First video I've watched but I'm amazed. Fantastic job. Particularly in how deep it goes (which scales fit over which chords) and how concise it is. I can't wait to see more but I had to applaud this one.
Wow! That’s quite a statement. Thank you so much
Scot Ted C is right, I'll be contacting you for a paid session !
I can't even tell you how many videos I've watched on the CAGED system but this video was the one that made sense. I cannot wait to mess with this!! Sub'd.
Papastache is good to watch for the CAGED system also.
@@ScottPaulJohnson when is he coming back is the question, we need mooooooore please Scott
The way you laid this all out on the fretboard and never removed the fretboard from the video was awesome.
i dont know how to express just how much you’ve helped me. im slow, ive rewatched this video so many times until i understood, and i finally do 🥲 thank you thank you thank you, my lord, you’re a blessing. hallelujah!
I just had to pause my tour of this lesson at the half-way to say, "this is the best, clearest guitar lesson I have EVER encountered, bar NONE!" I have surveyed one heckuva lot of guitar lessons. I have studied teaching as well (Master's degree in Education). I take off my hat and bow deeply to you, good Sir! Thank you Scott!!!
Gosh darn it thank you so much!!!!!
Absolutely agree!
Agree!
same here man ! just awesome
A dude probably wearing no pants just changed my life
Warning: an overactive imagination can be detrimental to one's practice.
Jeff Bezos lol
wonder6789 naw
@@halfbakedmunky5566 Everything's better without pants on.
😂😂😂
Mate, you answered so many questions, that for decades of struggling I was unable to ask, because I had no idea about this technical stuff. Best instructional video I have ever seen. I will definitely be availing myself of you PDF download. Thankyou so much. Kind regards, a new sub. 👍
I'm not a guitarist, but I think it's definitely criminal to watch this video for free. I know CAGED is just as basic as a multiplication table in math (it's just out there that everyone can observe physically) , but it's fairly hard to find someone who can make a video that has a SUPER-DUPER CLEAR explanation in the entire world. The thing is that you use a systematic and organized method to visualise the fingerboard like this, which incredibly insane. This should be in the patron video for those membership. Much appreciated again.
What the fu** just happened.. you just put my good half of my year of learning and trying figure out CAGED system from the books and usage in like 20 minutes videoo,,dude you're genius,, ,.. Your editing and showing all the shapes on the video makes things way easier. omg you're genius man, thank you for your effort putting all this together!
Agreed!
YOU HELD HANDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND YOU SAID, "COME I WILL TAKE YOU WHERE IT MAKES SENSE" YOU BROKE THE BARRIER. EVER GRATEFUL TO YOU!
Dude calm down
😂
@@libertyconcreteliftingspra933 really just laughed at your own comment...
You are Messiah supreme!
@@libertyconcreteliftingspra933 Maybe English is not his first language? You calm down, you can see by the likes that lots of people agree with this man too.
Wow. You made this so clear with your explanation and the way you visualized the fret board for us. Great job! Thank you
The fact that you have more of a 'big picture'/ holistic approach to teaching, is what makes this next level. Great video, exactly what I was looking for, for years!
feels like a crime watching this for free
Then pay... Brown-nose.
@@jjbast What should we say about Rick Beato?
@@enzogalli4016 what about him?
@@jjbast When we can Jaime. When we can. Go easy on us pal. For a lot of us, this is all we "truly" have right now. Without equivocation, Scott Paul Johnson is the Best. Be safe. Be good.
@@niallpadden Your online translator failed you.
OK punk, I've got a question for you. Where the hell were you 48 years ago when I picked up my first guitar? 48 years of going nowhere fast, and today you casually show up and everything has changed. I have tears of gratitude in my eyes and I am SO grateful you showed up today, the very day I received my Epiphone Nighthawk Reissue, only the second electric guitar I have ever owned. Everything has just changed.
Sincere gratitude to you from me for finally opening the door to a whole new world. You're a great teacher, a cool guy and my new best friend.
it' s called evolution i looked it up on google ( write down google and it popps out and ask questions and gives you answers), great stuff
He must of had a good teacher(s) and was a fantastic student. Probably has a natural knack too. I like this guy! Watched this video and immediately subscribed, liked and blah blah for the interest of supporting material like his. So young to. Damn punk!
He stopped reading at “okay punk”
It's possible his sense of humour may be more expansive than yours@@madi8181, but either way your point of view is your problem, not mine, nor Scotts either. Have a great day!
It is your goddang fault. Who told you to be born 48 years too early? Now stop whining and practice 40 to 69 hours a day, everyday for 8 months. You will become a "masta"
I've never understood how pentatonic scales work until now...can't thank you enough...keep up the great work.
Everything makes sense now... I have become omnipotent. No but seriously I have seen this video on my recommended for MONTHS and never clicked on it (for whatever reason) and now that I have everything makes sense. THANK YOU!!!
Your the only person in the world that explained this in a way I could understand.
You explain caged in a great way I'm tryi g to absorb I still don't understand when you're moving thru the the different shapes what key you are in Is that determined by the root note???
I didn't understand anything. I must be really dumb !
You're *
Fo real 😂
Absolutly!!
I know Im a bit late to the party, but that was hands down the BEST lesson on CAGED I have ever seen, so easy to understand and follow.
I was late to the party too and some jocks beat me up and I went home .
Bryan C. Lmao
Agreed!
All his lessons are like that. He can teach.
This is not just the best CAGED video I've seen, but also just the best guitar theory video too. Guy gets straight to the point, no bs, no "you're going to become a metal Jesus in 2 weeks", and lays everything out like I'm 5
Subscribed instantly. This is the most clear and concise music theory video/course/whatever I have ever seen. My guitar teacher would spend hours vomiting information and not teaching and showing the whole picture.
Incredible job.
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this for years and you have made it crazy clear for the first time. Thank you!
This guy is basically that guy who buys the doors when you play call of duty zombies
JAJAJAJA this is what u call underrated
💀💀
This lesson is more worthy than 10 years of practise.
*Practice*
Agreed 100%! Although I still haven't a slightest idea of what it is logically yet! It's still wonderful, and I'll keep watching it till I understand. Bravo!
@Cody W
It’s spelled differently in different places you uncultured swine
I learned this from a great player called Paul Foad in 2000. Used to be the guitarist in the great post punk band called Au Pairs, then became a jazz guitarist with Andy Hamilton.
He’s an amazing teacher and called his book “The Caged Guitarist”
i started playing guitar when i was 12 in 1963. many years later i wrote my first album in two days. i got a recording deal. i never learned guitar.im starting over and i want to learn guitar. u are the best teacher that i could find.i will sign up very soon. thank u
Mate, I'm not even 5 mins in, but i felt the need to comment. This is hands down one of the best guitar tutorials on youtube ever. The way you break everything down, makes the non sensical become sensical. Fair play.
Dean McClymont same here at 4:12 amazing video
Exactly!
This is hands down a guitar lesson video. I hands down liked it. It was hands down helpful to me, so I hands down wrote this comment. Please give this comment a hands down thumbs up.
I was so confused ... up to this point. I spent 3 hours watching this 21 minute video over and over again while practicing and it finally makes sense. I’m deliriously happy !!! ... I can’t thank you enough for posting this.
lol me too,
Question...how can a string be 2 different letters? @ 3:55 he says “the B string is also a D” 🤨 what?!!?
Im in the mist of befuddlement...
@@joshnic6639 It's the third fret on the B string. Open B string is B, first fret is C, second C# and the third is D. Hope it makes sense :)
Yeah watching it the first time...... WTF am I missing something? Hoping it makes more sense watching it a few times
This might be the best caged explanation and demonstration I’ve ever seen or heard. I had to white knuckle learning notes and how chord positions changed. I took lessons from about 11-13 and mainly learned basic chords, some scales, some riffs, some songs, but never was taught proper recognition of the neck. Once I started just practicing on my own it became kind of a natural step as I realized I could play essentially the same thing in different placement. Id recommend this video to anyone learning even if you have an instructor
I saw 11M views and was thinking that's a lot but then I watched it and think it deserves SO much more.
I have never seen such a clear and simple explanaition of an otherwise complex topic in my life. You really gave me a new lease of my guitar journey which had stagnated a little
Best guitar lesson on the entire Internet. PERIOD.
yess. and Djence make some of the best tutorial of great songs too.
That's true
Have you seen all the guitar lessons on the entire Internet? QUESTION MARK?
@@gatoryak7332 I have... hahahaha!
This teacher is a visionary. I've never had a guitar lesson like this one here. Perfect!
Agreed!
best teacher for CAGED system, one stop for scales,aperggio,petatonic,all roots for any keys. it expand your vision of the fretboard, well done Paul. awesome
The best trick to muscle memorized this is to know where you start your G shape pentatonic from then just apply the C-A-G-E-D shape systems. Just make sure that you have a fundamental knowledge on each guitar strings. Let say if someone asks you to play in C minor key; you would start from the right side of the 6th low E string of the C note (8th fret to be precise) using G shape pentatonic and then just apply the CAGED shape in sequence! Just keep on memorizing and practicing! Now it makes sense to me when I tried it in a day (fyi I just started to learn how to solo on the guitar)😊.. big thanks to Scott for this video and it really is an informative guide video to those who wants to learn how to solo from the scratch! I really appreciate it! From 🇲🇾 with respect!
Best video I’ve seen in so long. Taught me everything and answered every question. I’ve watched like five other videos and none of them made sense except for yours. Thank you so much.
I've been playing guitar for 10+ years and never bothered to learn this, however this made it entirely simplified. I'm glad i'm up at 3AM watching random videos
Literally me
dude, the transparent fingers effect is the best thing i think ive ever seen in my life lol
Idiot true! 😂
I’ve been playing guitar for a little over a year. I’ve had the urge to dive a little deeper into the fretboard and you have answered every question. Top notch video. The way you explain thing is extraordinary. Your tempo of teaching is perfect. Not to fast to the point I can understand what is going on and fast enough for it not to get stale. Thank you for this video
What elevates this lesson over the multitude of similar lessons is its clarity. Scott Paul's organization and delivery of the material make it easy to follow. Thank you!
C pentatonic shape: 10:10
A pentatonic shape: 10:39
G pentatonic shape: 10:53
E pentatonic shape: 11:07
D pentatonic shape: 11:16
Thank you 🙏
ty
Noice
Aren't they known as shape 1,2,3,4 and 5 ??
@@johnmcaleese8459 That's exactly the same question lingering on my mind for months too :'-)
Great to know I'm not alone.
Tks !!
Cheers !!
I feel like Neo when he sees the matrix for the first time.
20 years I been playing and this one video changes everything. Tis a gift!
WOAH
Understanding caged has helped me massively unlocking the fretboard. Great lesson 👍
Isn't it amazing and from a Kid!!! Not that he is a kid, I am an old man, I use my college Photo so my old friends know who they are talking to, Some people need to understand concepts because a shape just doesn't go far enough!!!! We need a deeper understanding to make music!!! This guy is going to change the world of teaching music!!
Yo can you stop just casually blowing my mind. Homie is just dropping liquid gold information as if it’s nothing. Thank you thank you thank you for making this video and for being such a great teacher!
I like this guy, he doesn’t talk-down to you. He’s very respectful.
what kind of people in this world disliking a free lesson like this
Dude for realss
people that should just put it down and forget about it.
Idiots?
Those “dislikes” are the people who think that he should be paying them. :) I’m just happy I found him. Love his description and his A/V work. Really great.
guitar teacher who just lost their student
Honestly this is the best guitar lesson i had in 13 years.
Not joking. Same here!
You gave an awareness in what I am playing. God bless you brother.
I wish I had seen this video when I first learned how to play ~10 years ago. It's clear cut, concise, and get's straight to the point. In my opinion it's one of THE BEST videos on how to use this system I've seen in all these years. Great job Scott!
I cannot believe I just watched this for free. Man, you really have a gift for teaching and the fact that this video is posted free of charge speaks volumes about your passion for it. I will for sure join your Patron! Again, thanks a million for this lesson
@Gerald Dixon Cummings 😂actually very accurate
God bless your editor, that looks like hell to edit
It was me!!!! And yeah it took foreverrrrrrrrr
@@ScottPaulJohnson totally worth it
I was thinking the same thing my friend...must have took hours n hours to put that together...very clever....REspect, peace.
@@ScottPaulJohnson what took you forever to edit is going to help hundreds of thousands in the future giving them this map. Isn't that crazy to think how many future guitarist you (your caged vid) will be the foundation of their understanding of guitar. I think that is the coolest part of the whole thing here. My generation used boring mixes of scales and patterns to practice until this fundamentals are naturally learned thus taking the long way around. Then if one is inclined, does various theories and styles. Can you imagine how strange it was for composers hundreds of years ago to learn music, and its evolution through various transitional instruments, and then to early popular music on, and now internet age learning has fast tracked what took centuries, and now have 5 yr old Satches coming out. SMH
@@ScottPaulJohnson Love the fretboard overlay. Makes it so much easier to follow the video!
Dude. Decades of trying to figure this out, and you managed to pull it all together for me. Gonna spend a lot of time rewatching this in the near future. So amazingly well done, the overlays are incredibly helpful
Thank you so much Scott. I have watched so many videos of people trying to explain caged but it never made sense to me. You ability to teach it is far and away the best, for me anyway. Thank you for sharing your gifts, brother💛
I really appreciate you posting this
I've seen and read a lot about CAGED, but nothing made the relationship clear like the diagram of the fret board that shows up 15 seconds into this video. I suddenly understood why it's called CAGED, and how all of the shapes relate to each other. The constant camera on the fret board, the note diagrams, and the ghost hand are all brilliant. Excellent lesson. I'm subscribed!
Thank you so much for watching and THANKS FOR SUBSCRIBING
It's almost as this this has been a secret kept from me for months
I rarely like videos but this...deserves more than a like from me
Really the thing I also wanted to say,thank you very much.
I can't get the PDF link,can someone send it to me?
Send me an email through my website and I’ll send it myself
Agreed
So let's subscribe to support him lol✌️
thank you so much, i've been playing for the past 4 months and just started learning the pentatonic scales. this has been so helpful in understanding everything, cant wait to start practicing again !
I am mindblown. That was the single best guitar video I've ever seen after years of playing tabs and only recently starting to learn fundamental music theory. This unlocks the guitar for me.
I'm having trouble making the colored dots show up on my guitar.
you do not need to put in on your guitar......it's just showed up for an instance.......
mohit4399 big brain
EchoCubes he has much big in his brain
You can’t learn that power from a Jedi.
mohit4399 jokes aside, it could be very helpful to put something like that on your guitar temporarily.
I learned more in 22 minutes than in the last 20 years, and i've been paying for private lessons for about a year now.. He's now fired.
LMAOO
Go easy on him. Not everyone uses the caged system. I don’t and I don’t tech my students because it’s not as efficient as simply learning the scale patterns.
@@YouTw1tFace finally someone with a sensible comment
sounds like you wasted the past twenty years
For the record I been paying for 2 month of lessons not 20 years. The other years I just...had a guitar. I'd just noodle once in while
I'm so grateful for your videos!
As a beginner going thru open chord progression practice, I'm navigating the next step of my practice.
I appreciate the thorough explanation you offer!
This has to be the BEST video explaining the CAGED system. Why??? Because this guy discusses something that others fail to mention. Which is using the system for chords other than C. He shows how using a G chord for example, would move around the fretboard within the CAGED system. Other videos I have seen just cover this using a C chord then send you on your way. Kudos man. I know this is an old video but it’s nicely done. I’m 50 and been playing by ear my whole life. I have some basics of music down thanks to taking band when I was in school. But I mostly have been playing by ear. Im just starting to focus on learning what the hell I’m actually doing when playing. Lol. This is wildly helpful.
Excellent visuals... showing a stationary fretboard with “active” fingering markers.
Echoing everyone else here. That was an amazing and clear explanation of CAGED (and how the guitar is laid out). I’ve been playing for decades and it feels like you’re the first person who’s come along and explained to me what the hell is going on. “Oh, that’s why that pentatonic box/position is in that shape!” I’ve been trying to force my brain and my fingers to remember arbitrary shapes and positions, but now I see the logic behind it all, I can map it out for myself. I’m so happy I could cry! Thank you, Scott.
😭
David McClain that’s true. It made my mind clear as crystal this time through his tutorial. It is so awesome.
I resemble your remarks and how it all comes together. So much easier to follow for visual learners.
What an awesome way to explain the CAGE system Possibly my best lesson ever, definitely the best Guitar theory lesson I’ve ever had.
By far the most enlightening lesson I have seen and it just blows my mind. Smooth.
for too long as a metalhead guitarist, ive been trying to step up my guitar game from being a rhythm player, to trying to learn licks and solos. but this is SUPER helpful!!!
C pentatonic shape: 10:10
A pentatonic shape: 10:39
G pentatonic shape: 10:53
E pentatonic shape: 11:07
D pentatonic shape: 11:16
CREDITS!
Thanks bro need that🙏🏽
God level comment.
I got an app on my phone that shows the G pentatonic shape from this video as the E, which is the correct one? Bit confused
Both
@@oklahomajefferson4625 This video is right. Might be that the confusion is between shape and key? You can play any of the shapes in any key. But the G shape as shown here is correct. You can tell because each of the scale shapes contains the chord shape.
Dude you are literally killing me. If been playing and performing for more than 40 years and NO ONE has ever made this quite that clear. You’re killing me man. Thank you
Please don’t die!
In total agreement. You are giving me hope again. BIG THANKS
How is this different from just using position 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for the pentatonic positions? I don't get it.
@@zootsoot2006 You get it. They are placed the same place on the neck😊
The pentatonic scales are formed aroud these CAGED-shapes. The same goes for the diatonic scale etc.
So, you initially use the scales to play your solos in key, and later on you use the CAGED-forms to target the specific chords in the underlying melody when playing your solos.
Chord-targeting gives you solos a “better” sound, compared to merely playing in key.
Anyway, you use CAGED for chord tone targeting in your solos 😊
That made so much sense, keep on doing what your doing!
The best lesson i ever had in the last 10 years. I am a 75j old beginner guitarplayer from Belgium. Thank you, thank you .....!
I've been watching A LOT of videos about CAGED but everytime I got back here because this is THE BEST video about CAGED system. Period.
I really enjoy your teaching style. A cross between knowledgeable, humble and enthusiastic. That is what sells these videos honestly. Personality combined with knowledge
I am 58 and have jammed by ear since I was 13. I've played alot of what u teach if not all of it but I never knew what the hell I was doing. now I know how to explain atleast what I'm trying to do. God Bless and thank you!!!
That’s absolutely right!
I've been playing guitar for 28 years and I've never once witnessed chord shapes transposed and broken down this way. Very smart!
Lol are you joking?!
@@cassanateli i mean think about man, most professionals dont even know simple chords and riffs. Everyone learns in the own way/style, iv seen many videos of kirk hammett struggling to play a simple ass riffs but then bust out a mean ass fucking solo.Everyone is different. Im a skateboarder so i like to think of guitar like SkateBoarding, everyone has there own
style/steez and there own
tricks/licks. Some people can pickup the really hard riffs quick but then sit there to struggle to play a simple G or C chord. Like in skateboarding some pros can literally bust out a 540 tre-flip down a 20 set of stairs but then not even be able to a simple kickflip.
Thats why i love SkateBoarding/surfing/skimboarding and guitar, you have your style, your own flow, your own take on tricks/your own way of doing them.
I play a left handed guitar and im left handed,which already makes me different from the crowd.
28 years and you never realized this?
@@mindcontrol67 yup, go fuck yourself!
I've watched countless videos about this stuff and this is by far the best. Thanks a lot!!
Guit
SCOTT not sure you’ll see this but I’ve been strumming for 30 years and I can play more than 200 songs just with open (cowboy) chords and my capo. The reason I’ve played like that is, I have huge stiff fingers - not kidding. In guitar class, other kids could achieve simple scales in a few weeks of hourly practice - but I would practice 4x as much and I genuinely couldn’t get my fingers to loosen up. One of my friends became a musical genius and acted like I just wasn’t really practicing.
For recital my professor told me “When you practice, everyone knows it, and when you don’t practice, everyone knows it”, as if I hadn’t been practicing.
I intensely and angrily asked, how many hours should I be practicing? He said, “Just an hour a day is all it takes”. I said, “I practice 2 to 4 hours a day, my finger’s literally bleed”. He said, “Maybe you’re practicing wrong”.
After a year I gave up and just learned chords off a big poster in my room.
As a decent rhythm guitarist I’ve played over 1500 gigs at church (a music set counts no matter where you play it).
SO - I said all that to say this…
A few months ago I committed to myself to play lead guitar if it kills me.
I treated myself to a gorgeous Gibson Les Paul set up a practice station and started learning from scratch again. There was no internet, much less TH-cam years ago so I’m already light years ahead of the game.
Well, same stiff fingers BUT I have to get this.
I’ve found about a dozen guys that speak a guitar language I can handle (You gotta have the right teacher to excel).
But Know this, FOR WHERE I AM - your teaching is priceless.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO TEACH AND PUBLISH THESE LESSONS.
I will be bingeing and practicing and bingeing and practicing.
It won’t kill me & I will get this. And I will play lead.
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you