reading through the comments seems a lot of people agree with my assessment and while good i don't think this is your best video because you have a few incredible ones. this one is good for helping to learn what it is teaching but others are just ways to jump start your playing.. probably the best guitar teacher out there and there is a lot of good competition.
Very nice instruction on the CAGED system. I believe someone commented earlier about the relaxed teaching style in a favorable way. I totally agree. I'm an older guy who has played guitar for a long time and I know how challenging learning it can be. Learning from a teacher (any subject) who is calm, confident and pleasant (like this) helps a lot!! Great job!
And more often than not, all the teachers I've had were UPTIGHT, and not encouraging AT ALL. I love music as a hobby, and I want to PLAY. This format was SIMPLE, and WAY easy to get. Thanks!!
I always call the nut the invisible finger (when playing open chords) that is holding down all the strings and as you move it you have to replace it. Seemed to work better with my students then some of the other examples.
I have been recommended so many different videos about the CAGED System but none of them have been able to make it click in my head like this one. I love the relaxed style as well, keep up the good work!! ;D
it feels alien for me reforming ther chords leaving my index finger out of it, but it will work, i am guna try to use open chords with out using index finger so i can use my little finger more, i barely use it only for tapping hammer ons
I can't see any value in this caged system at the moment even though I'm trying to understand it . I already know all open chords are movable if you bar . The shapes are inefficient apart from the e and a . Whats the point of locating say the g shape in c to find a scale shape when you can just find the root and relate it to the pattern ? Idk .
I had tried to understand the CAGED concept before but never really got it until this video. The instruction was perfectly clear and concise and all of a sudden CAGED clicked for me. I watched three other videos on CAGED after this one and none of them did anywhere near as good a job. I only understood them because I'd watched this one. Great teaching.
You are a great teacher! I can't believe that no one has ever mentioned the caged system to me before, as I have been playing the guitar for several years now. Thanks (:
Mike yours are some of the best lessons on TH-cam. I've been playing since I was 12 and I learn something every time I tune in to you. Thank you for what you do my friend.
I'm an old ex professional Detroit blues/funk guitar player and although I knew pieces of this I never really connected it all together until THIS great explanation! Thank you!!!
Man, this was very informative. I'm a professional trumpet player who hurt himself badly nearly a year ago. 7 months ago i started teaching myself guitar. It's been a blast by ear but I need to check my work on occasion. This was clutch. Thank you!
@@johnmcaleese8459 I'm not sure myself as I'm also just learning this but I think it has more to do with knowing where the root note is and all the relatives (3, 5 etc) are in all the chord shapes, and then applying that to scales and different keys. I think this video should help alot th-cam.com/video/0Qp26KcDrGw/w-d-xo.html
Man! You just did me a huge favor figuring out what the CAGED system is and how it works and all in under 10 min without plugging in a paid course or anything! Really thank you so much. I’m so grateful to you.
Best CAGED lesson I've seen! I didn't realize they actually went in that order. C-A-G-E-D. Never thought about the order since I never used G and C in the beginning. I thought they just made a word out of the chords so you could easily remember them. This is HUGE!! The order is everything to finding the shapes quickly and to see how scales lay on top. Great job!!!
One thing that is interesting is looking up with a search engine the History of the Caged system. It was a small quote in an Guitar Player Magazine teacher sometime in the Late 80's. So those of us who learned guitar before this never had a name for it as a system, it was just a pattern that you recognized. The big one in the 70's was called the BOX system.
I have this caged lesson coming up in my tuition book . There's only less than a page devoted to it . I still can't see the importance ( yet ) of knowing this if you already know your scales and where the root notes are . Added to that the shapes are inefficient apart from the e shape and a shape, unless you cappo.
I just started learning how to play the guitar, and I must say imo you did the best job explaining the CAGED system. My mind was blown within the first 3 minutes and I was going "So that's how it works!!"
2:20 - I'M OUT! 3:40 - It's Witchcraft. My fingers don't work that way. 5:24 - Are you an alien? 7:18 - That's just a wrong F. You cheated. 7:29 - ok, I might be able to handle that one. Except I still can't do a D in time.... Ok, Ok, all kidding aside, this is a really great lesson. You laid it out in such an easy to understand way. Great content. Definitely worth the sub.
5 years later still the best caged lesson on TH-cam. I did get a little lost when he jumped right over to pentatonics, but heading to look for his videos on that.
Knowing how to play the guitar is cool but Teaching what you know is a skill that MANY don’t have and you definitely have it , thank you for making this easy to understand This is how you teach ppl👏🏼
Mind blown! I've avoided learning the guitar my whole life, thinking it would be too complicated. At 57, I finally buckled under the pressure & bought one last Xmas. Little did I know the whole bloody instrument is set up so you only have to remember a few patterns & shapes. And I look back at the decades I wasted playing wind instruments...
More like”The Art of Teaching Guitar” you’re the freaking man! Love your passion and delivery of lessons. I’m actually a bassist but I have been really into your videos lately and it’s made me more cognizant of some things I’ve been sloppy with in the past. Please keep these coming!
What a great lesson, thank you! I've been playing guitar about 10 years and bass about 25 years and still picked up a lot of neat tips here. Best CAGED explanation I've come across. Awesome stuff!
Im sitting at 1:00am in quarantine watching this and ot clicked. Ive been waiting for a good explanation of the caged system for so long and you just gave it to me. Thank you so much, my guitar playing has changed for the better :)
The great thing about the guitar, unlike most instruments, is that there are many ways to play the same chord or scale. not so on the piano, the trumpet etc.
I been searching high and low for a good explanation of CAGED and yours is by far the best. Thanks so much bro I really appreciate it. Well done friend
your explanation of the Game to learn the notes on each string, like find all C's on each sting. And repeat. You broke this daunting task down to something i can relate to for my practices. And you kept reminding me of what the open strings are. There is so much for a beginner. Some teachers go really fast and forget that they already know this. Thanks for your patience and insight. I subscribed. Hoping I have found someone who I can learn. A beginner. .Found myself zeroing in on theory as I could tell I needed to know where notes are to play intuitively. You are the man.
Awesome comment. Thanks for taking the time. I've taught for over 25 years now so I'm pretty used to, at least trying, to relay information in a certain way. :)
The first and only time I've actually understood an explanation of the CAGED system. So thank you for that. There's no shortage of guitarists who know the CAGED system inside out, but unable to teach it in any meaningful and understandable way. You can do both. Greetings from Scotland, my friend. 👍🏴
Before I saw this I knew that the caged system was just how to play the same chords but in different positions but now I know that they connect and you can find those shapes were it's all say c notes in the chord wich is nice since I recently learned the major scale all throughout the fretboard so I will see how I can further connect all these things because everything connects!! Thx.
Best lesson of CAGED system ever! I’ve watched countless lesson of this on youtube and it only confused me to the point of giving up. Yours is the best and it’s only under 10 mins. Subbed!
I’m absolutely mind blown, I’ve just started a couple months ago and I’ve learned all the major and minor chords, but was really afraid to explore the fretboard, this was one of those lightbulb moments for me, thank you! Love how you teach as well, I wish I could be your student
After watching other videos I used to think "what this CAGED system really is!" But while watching your video it was like "man this is so simple". Thankyou sir! You deserve millions of subscribers.
It's a very good introduction to the caged system, When they teached me, instantly ended up with scaling up and down. Eventually I have learned the neck in a different way, though that's me. I started improvising over simple chord progressions, not jazz I'm into know, but for example C, Dm G with 60 bpm) . I just recorded these to my smarty. Impro become part of my daily regime, enjoyed it, and in a couple of weeks the notes just burned into my head. I used only one scale at a time, and I instantly heard if I went outside the scale. This is justa fun method though the primary goal was not memorize the entire neck.
See when I first learned about barre chords, I was taught to think of my first finger like a capo, and to use my other fingers to make the open shapes im used to. Never knew that it was called CAGED, but it's definitely helped a ton. Now I need to practice my scales and modes from those positions. My rhythm skills are fine but my improv lead skills are severely lacking
revisiting your video today 7/17/24 ... really good information regarding the CAGED system ... been a guitar player now for 68 years ... will be in my 80th year next year ... just becoming familiar with the term in most recent years ... but learned all the chords and forms back in the mid fifties ... the concept helps ... still learning the instrument and getting back into music theory ... NICE VIDEO ... GOOD WORK ... HELPFUL ... BOB LANDESS HERE ... LET THE MUSIC PLAY
I would like to say, after certain online courses I have purchased and other videos I have come across. You are the only one that helped me finally grasp the idea of the caged system. It was very well explained and I finally understand how it works. Thank you!
You are such an excellent guitar teacher. I have paid a professional teacher to learn guitar but I have learned more on my own and also from watching you. thank God for you brother. Keep up the fantastic work.
remember thats its pretty much never necessary to really be barring all the strings with the same pressure because youre pretty much always fretting three or two strings with your other fingers, just focus on barring the strings that would be open.
I have been trying to pick up guitar playing for years just for my own entertainment. Being an engineer, I naturally gravitate towards the scientific aspects of anything and the CAGED system has always intrigued yet also frustrated me to the point that I would just stop learning for extended periods of time. You have inspired me to pick up the guitar again after finally grasping this basic concept. Thank you so much.
Your video on the CAGED system showed me with how different chord voicings are connected. It clicked for me. Thank you! I really dislike commenters who think this is so easy or believe if you only do this, that and the other you're good to go. Guitar is a process and I believe the different approaches to teaching guitar benefit everyone because we all learn differently and are at different stages of proficiency. It does not help any of us to criticise the approach used. Keep up the good work. This is the first video I've seen of yours and I'm subscribing now. -D.
Awesome Diana. Are you related to Eddie? Yeah many people learn the CAGED system and say it's the ONLY way. It's always silly to have such narrow vision, I agree. :)
He made a funny and it went right over your head... lol... By the way, great lesson. I've been playing on and off for 20 years. And just recently picked it up again. Trying to get over some of the BAD HABITS that I've picked up so long ago. Hell, I never knew where the notes were on the guitar. I knew that you could play the same notes at different places... but never knew the notes or where to find them. Thanks for this...
Saying that your barre chord is like a capo with your finger is probably the best explanation I've seen for it so far. My challenge with forming shapes so far is that my fingers behave strangely, like I can bend my ring finger independently from my pinky finger, but I can't bend my pinky finger without my ring finger bending at the same time. Even if I hold it with my other hand, it still wants to bend when I move my pinky.
For any of you who have practiced guitar, and feel like you have gotten nowhere, I would just like to give you my experience with this. First you must burn to get those calluses, but after you have practiced and still felt like you can't move your fingers to the right chords without having to pause, this is what happened to me. I was ready to give it up, but one day I decided to give it another go, before I lost the hardening of my fingers and see if I could remember all that was taught. To my surprise, my fingers very easily went from note to note. I was playing dust in the wind, and hotel california. This used to be a challenge, but without thinking, it just came to me! From there I went on to play some Wasp songs, and now I'm using a 12 and 6 string guitars. Just hang in there, and I promise, it will one day just happen! After this, playing became therapy, and was able to write my own music! I never used a pick, and so I don't think I can really get into that habit at this point. For me, Andres Segovia was my inspiration, and I started off with a classical, which is much easier on your finger tips! Even after switching to an acoustic, it hurt once again, but it was bearable! No blue fingers burning, but there was still a little pain. Then electric was once again a bit of a challenge on my fingers. They are much thicker strings! Once you learn to play on any of them, you can easily go from one to the other and rock out!
Mike, I've been wrestling with this for ages. Theory has been to be shown to me in so many different forms for years, and just finally has been explained clearly (Of course you'll get 20 more views from me re-reviwing this) Your video makes connecting the dots so much of an easier path. ...Also thank you for the choice placement of plugs saying "We cover this more" instead of Pimping your site the first 2 minutes, and instead getting to business at hand!! Your delivery and lessons are clear and short, but not rushed. GREAT TEACHER!!! I'm a bass player I've been fortunate to be playing with some pretty heavy cats lately, making me want to step my game up. I've never been much of a soloist, I'm a Root/ V guy... singers LOVE me... So I went and bought myself a nice Tele, and have been focusing on a little guitar. I'm an old head banger that makes a living playing country music so its Michael Schenker and Brent Mason inspiring me currently... This was like turning of fog lights!!! Thank you I will surely recommend!!! Off to check the site now. Thanks a Million!!!
I JUST found this. Im a pretty good drummer... and a crappy guitar player lol.. but I want to get better but never put in the time. Ive always known about the CAGED system. Mike in this vid does a fantastic job with the "jump" point.
It's really good to see younger guys who aren't ageist & have wisely accessed & absorb the styles & skills of the players who've gone before (I mean the quick reference to Hendrix & the Doobies). In fact, it's encouraging & gratifying to see bright younger musicians...PERIOD. We're in a time where "The Business" is "extracting" (their term) instrumental skill - and so much of what's getting big play & promotion is done with a drum machine a keyboard & a laptop. When I asked some young relatives who their favorite musicians are, they said (Honest!)..."You mean Deejays?" ..Uh-Oh..
Omg!!! Thank you for this video! I’m a pianist learning guitar and I’ve been trying to flip inversions - the way I can on the keys - but was stuck on E barres and A barres. Thanks!
Sir I have recently subscribed to your guitar lessons and realised what I had been missing all these years. Your lessons have no nonsense approach and easy to comprehend.
Interesting.. I taught myself this when I was first starting, but I never knew it was a thing really.. Pretty cool. Never really use the G or 3rd form tho
There's another way the CAGED shapes are connected. In a strange way they are actually all THE SAME SHAPE! Just moved ACROSS the fretboard! Here's how! Play the full open C chord shape - with the G on the sixth string. Now carefully move each finger across one string on it's same fret. So the finger on the 6th string moves to the 5th string 3rd fret, the finger playing C moves to the F note on the 4th string. Move the finger from the E on the 4th string to the A on the 3rd string. Because we tune the 2nd string a half step lower relative to the 3rd than all the others we've done so far, the open 3rd string doesn't simply change to being the 2nd string open - we need to finger the first fret of the second string, the C. Next the finger that was on the C note on the second string moves across to the first fret of the 1st string, the F. Lastly, the note that would have been played on string 7, a low B string, if there had been one, moves from the imaginary C note onto the first fret of the sixth string - a low F note. So now you are playing the F chord using the E shape!! Move down to the open E shape to make things easier - although you could stay in the original frets if you wanted to! If you move each finger position across one string again, raising the 2nd string one fret to compensate for it's different tuning as before, you get the A shape! Ha! You'd be playing Bb if you'd stayed in the original frets. Move them all again and you get the D shape!! And again to get the G shape. Doing this you move through the "circle of fifths". If you always stay in the frets you were last in, you will go through all 12 major chords like this! If you had to tune all your strings in fifths (EADGCF) you would find that to play a major chord you would play the same 3 string shape twice across the fretboard - the E shape. EVERY major chord would be played exactly the same way, just moved across the fretboard. Almost impossible to play like this, but easy to imagine and remember. Try it! So, taking into account the tweak to the tuning of the second string, the caged shapes are actually all the same shape! One shape to rule them all!
Checked out a few of your vids lately and subscribed just now. I needed this. Been playing hard five years but covers. Fun ones like Brownstone, 25 or 6 to 4 etc. I copy but don't understand if that makes sense. I joined an original band and need to know the neck for leads. I'm going to study this thoroughly and I think you do a good job. Thank you. Enjoy the day, and nice made up word there :D
Mind. Blown. I have been playing guitar for nearly 15 years, having had only a handful of lesson at the beginning, and this is the first time I have come across this system. Mind… Blown .,, 🤯
You confused me more than helped me, ha ha But I do see the great advantage of understanding the finger placement on the entire fretboard! Thank you so much! I am 62 years old and have played guitar on and off (never serious) only jamming, but I recently have a desire to learn it right? Near the end of my life span but learning is always fun!
Thank you so much! I’ve been learning the guitar on youtube on/off for the past 10+ years. Now that I am able to play basic chords confidently I wanted to challenge myself. Thanks for making this so clear! This would be frustrating otherwise, but your calm voice and pace of teaching is awesome 👏🏼
You got a Bob Ross vibe goin' on. I felt like when I first started playing again watching this. Probably cuz I never fully understood this concept lol. Great vid.
The more I learn, the more I realize I know nothing. I swear I'm going to join your website as soon as I can free up enough room to afford it. I'm disabled so I have to work within a fixed budget. I enjoy your teaching methods so much. I truly than you for making some of your knowledge available for free. You're awesome!
I watched a few vids related to the CAGED system and read about it but this vid was the clearest... and most concise. Well done! You have a new subscriber.
@@VArsovski10 The scales follow the same pattern no matter where you are on the neck. So if you know where the root is, you can easily make the scale. For example, in a G major chord, the first finger is on the G note, which is the root of the chord. From the root G, it is easy to create the G major scale by following the pattern. When you move the G major chord shape up to create a C major Chord, you know that the first finger must be a C, so then you can make the C major scale from there.
I feel like this could have been set up to understand better if in the beginning you said “I am going to show you how to play five variations of each chord using the finger shapings of c,a,g,e,d” and then shown the example and explained how each chord used the fingering shapes of caged. The way it is explained is a little messy imo and you bring up scales which makes it all the more confusing. Personally I understand what you are saying but it took me a minute and it’s also bc I know the name of notes on frets so I could find the root notes(every c note, d note etc)and work it out from there. Not trying to knock your video I just think it could be slowed down and explained in a way that people could follow easier.
Yeah, I agree. I couldn't understand what scales (which I don't know) had to do with open and barre chords. I sort of understand the shapes derived from the open chords, but I still don't understand the point, and could never move up the neck which I think is the point in the first place. That's why you still need a person to person teacher. Really learning and thoroughly improving from videos on the internet is next to useless.
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mike you seem to have the most valuable videos out there. really love your teaching method
reading through the comments seems a lot of people agree with my assessment and while good i don't think this is your best video because you have a few incredible ones. this one is good for helping to learn what it is teaching but others are just ways to jump start your playing.. probably the best guitar teacher out there and there is a lot of good competition.
Very nice instruction on the CAGED system. I believe someone commented earlier about the relaxed teaching style in a favorable way. I totally agree. I'm an older guy who has played guitar for a long time and I know how challenging learning it can be. Learning from a teacher (any subject) who is calm, confident and pleasant (like this) helps a lot!! Great job!
+Steve Douglas Thanks Steve!
Dude agreed. All of these TH-cam formats where people have tons of energy and speak super fast freak me out.
And more often than not, all the teachers I've had were UPTIGHT, and not encouraging AT ALL. I love music as a hobby, and I want to PLAY. This format was SIMPLE, and WAY easy to get. Thanks!!
I always call the nut the invisible finger (when playing open chords) that is holding down all the strings and as you move it you have to replace it. Seemed to work better with my students then some of the other examples.
Gary Wilkinson I always refer to it as the 0th fret :D
I think of it as a permanent capo
I have been recommended so many different videos about the CAGED System but none of them have been able to make it click in my head like this one. I love the relaxed style as well, keep up the good work!! ;D
I agree! Best explanation! NOW it makes sense. Thank you!!!
Agreed. I get it! Nice work. Thank you
Yes I agree this is the most comprehensive vid or book explanation of the CAGED system.
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+lazyquackduck Agree. His energy and effort into this work notwithstanding, Mike has a exceptional gift.
this video has taught me more in 10 minutes than I have tried to learn myself in 20 years. unbelievable!!
I hear you, this guy blows my mind. He definitely knows how to get his point across.
it feels alien for me reforming ther chords leaving my index finger out of it, but it will work, i am guna try to use open chords with out using index finger so i can use my little finger more, i barely use it
only for tapping hammer ons
really? Jesus Christ lol
I can't see any value in this caged system at the moment even though I'm trying to understand it . I already know all open chords are movable if you bar . The shapes are inefficient apart from the e and a . Whats the point of locating say the g shape in c to find a scale shape when you can just find the root and relate it to the pattern ? Idk .
I never leave comments.....but wanted to say THANK YOU for the best and easiest to understand CAGED lesson. I tip my cap to you sir
i tip my capo to you sir
Amen
Tip the guy some cash 😂
Its 2019 & your still saving Lives, Just understood the so called CAGED & Pentatonic scale in just a flush. Wow ... Fantastic video. Kudos!
jeez markiplier really knows how to play guitar
Lol he actually does on his spare time
thats what im saying
Who? WTH??!!
At first I was like I've seen this guy before but not on guitar content
If Markiplier and John Cusack had a baby.
I had tried to understand the CAGED concept before but never really got it until this video. The instruction was perfectly clear and concise and all of a sudden CAGED clicked for me. I watched three other videos on CAGED after this one and none of them did anywhere near as good a job. I only understood them because I'd watched this one. Great teaching.
Every now and again a good teacher comes along with great theory knowledge easy listening voice and a patient approach.
Loved it.
One of the best TH-cam guitar teachers out there. Really likable, clear and concise.
You are a great teacher! I can't believe that no one has ever mentioned the caged system to me before, as I have been playing the guitar for several years now. Thanks (:
Mike yours are some of the best lessons on TH-cam. I've been playing since I was 12 and I learn something every time I tune in to you. Thank you for what you do my friend.
Finally nailed myself to the chair and paid attention.This was the clearest and most accessible lesson on this. Great lesson! Thanks!
I'm an old ex professional Detroit blues/funk guitar player and although I knew pieces of this I never really connected it all together until THIS great explanation!
Thank you!!!
This is my first exposure to CAGED, and it's freaking amazing! Your explanation is crystal clear.
Man, this was very informative. I'm a professional trumpet player who hurt himself badly nearly a year ago. 7 months ago i started teaching myself guitar. It's been a blast by ear but I need to check my work on occasion. This was clutch. Thank you!
am i the only one who gets it, but at the same time, i dont really get it
Please give me some hope and say you fully get it now.
Rock-U I still don’t get it. I’m trying to see it being used not just be told about it . In music it’s pointless of learning something you can’t apply
I don't get how learning these barre chord shapes (caged) up the neck, will extend my lead guitar playing locations. My MAJOR road block.
@@johnmcaleese8459 I'm not sure myself as I'm also just learning this but I think it has more to do with knowing where the root note is and all the relatives (3, 5 etc) are in all the chord shapes, and then applying that to scales and different keys. I think this video should help alot th-cam.com/video/0Qp26KcDrGw/w-d-xo.html
Watching: psh that makes sense I got this
Picks up guitar: hmm what?
Man! You just did me a huge favor figuring out what the CAGED system is and how it works and all in under 10 min without plugging in a paid course or anything! Really thank you so much. I’m so grateful to you.
Best CAGED lesson I've seen! I didn't realize they actually went in that order. C-A-G-E-D. Never thought about the order since I never used G and C in the beginning. I thought they just made a word out of the chords so you could easily remember them. This is HUGE!! The order is everything to finding the shapes quickly and to see how scales lay on top. Great job!!!
One thing that is interesting is looking up with a search engine the History of the Caged system. It was a small quote in an Guitar Player Magazine teacher sometime in the Late 80's. So those of us who learned guitar before this never had a name for it as a system, it was just a pattern that you recognized. The big one in the 70's was called the BOX system.
I have this caged lesson coming up in my tuition book . There's only less than a page devoted to it . I still can't see the importance ( yet ) of knowing this if you already know your scales and where the root notes are . Added to that the shapes are inefficient apart from the e shape and a shape, unless you cappo.
I just started learning how to play the guitar, and I must say imo you did the best job explaining the CAGED system. My mind was blown within the first 3 minutes and I was going "So that's how it works!!"
2:20 - I'M OUT! 3:40 - It's Witchcraft. My fingers don't work that way. 5:24 - Are you an alien? 7:18 - That's just a wrong F. You cheated. 7:29 - ok, I might be able to handle that one. Except I still can't do a D in time....
Ok, Ok, all kidding aside, this is a really great lesson. You laid it out in such an easy to understand way. Great content. Definitely worth the sub.
I have never found someone so good on teaching guitar like you man. Congrats!
5 years later still the best caged lesson on TH-cam. I did get a little lost when he jumped right over to pentatonics, but heading to look for his videos on that.
How he didn’t even do E
@@Jfknosc0pe1it's the same principle tho, same chord shape moved down the neck? E moved up a tone is F
Knowing how to play the guitar is cool but Teaching what you know is a skill that MANY don’t have and you definitely have it , thank you for making this easy to understand
This is how you teach ppl👏🏼
Mind blown!
I've avoided learning the guitar my whole life, thinking it would be too complicated. At 57, I finally buckled under the pressure & bought one last Xmas.
Little did I know the whole bloody instrument is set up so you only have to remember a few patterns & shapes.
And I look back at the decades I wasted playing wind instruments...
More like”The Art of Teaching Guitar” you’re the freaking man! Love your passion and delivery of lessons. I’m actually a bassist but I have been really into your videos lately and it’s made me more cognizant of some things I’ve been sloppy with in the past. Please keep these coming!
What a great lesson, thank you! I've been playing guitar about 10 years and bass about 25 years and still picked up a lot of neat tips here. Best CAGED explanation I've come across. Awesome stuff!
Im sitting at 1:00am in quarantine watching this and ot clicked. Ive been waiting for a good explanation of the caged system for so long and you just gave it to me. Thank you so much, my guitar playing has changed for the better :)
The great thing about the guitar, unlike most instruments, is that there are many ways to play the same chord or scale. not so on the piano, the trumpet etc.
God you make it so easy to understand it... wish every TH-cam guitar teacher was like you instead of rambling about 10 different subjects at once
This is the most helpful guitar lesson I've ever come across on TH-cam. Thank you so much, kind sir!
I been searching high and low for a good explanation of CAGED and yours is by far the best. Thanks so much bro I really appreciate it. Well done friend
your explanation of the Game to learn the notes on each string, like find all C's on each sting. And repeat. You broke this daunting task down to something i can relate to for my practices. And you kept reminding me of what the open strings are. There is so much for a beginner. Some teachers go really fast and forget that they already know this. Thanks for your patience and insight. I subscribed. Hoping I have found someone who I can learn. A beginner. .Found myself zeroing in on theory as I could tell I needed to know where notes are to play intuitively. You are the man.
Awesome comment. Thanks for taking the time. I've taught for over 25 years now so I'm pretty used to, at least trying, to relay information in a certain way. :)
Easily the best guitar tutor I have seen on TH-cam so far, keep it up man you explained that perfectly and simply
THE ONE AND ONLY VIDEO ONLINE THAT MAKES THIS UNDERSTANDABLE!!
The first and only time I've actually understood an explanation of the CAGED system. So thank you for that. There's no shortage of guitarists who know the CAGED system inside out, but unable to teach it in any meaningful and understandable way. You can do both. Greetings from Scotland, my friend. 👍🏴
Before I saw this I knew that the caged system was just how to play the same chords but in different positions but now I know that they connect and you can find those shapes were it's all say c notes in the chord wich is nice since I recently learned the major scale all throughout the fretboard so I will see how I can further connect all these things because everything connects!! Thx.
Best lesson of CAGED system ever! I’ve watched countless lesson of this on youtube and it only confused me to the point of giving up. Yours is the best and it’s only under 10 mins. Subbed!
I’m absolutely mind blown, I’ve just started a couple months ago and I’ve learned all the major and minor chords, but was really afraid to explore the fretboard, this was one of those lightbulb moments for me, thank you!
Love how you teach as well, I wish I could be your student
A very huge thanks for solving my problem with CAGED system. What a great teacher.
Wow. I never expected to be so challenged by this instrument. I have a lot of work to do. Let's save it for tomorrow hfadjf;k
How are you doing now :)
You’re the only person so far that’s made a lick of sense with these scales that I’ve been watching. Thankyou!
After watching other videos I used to think "what this CAGED system really is!" But while watching your video it was like "man this is so simple". Thankyou sir! You deserve millions of subscribers.
Great job, man! I have a masters in music Ed and have been teaching 27 years. Very thorough and informative.
It's a very good introduction to the caged system, When they teached me, instantly ended up with scaling up and down.
Eventually I have learned the neck in a different way, though that's me. I started improvising over simple chord progressions, not jazz I'm into know, but for example C, Dm G with 60 bpm) . I just recorded these to my smarty. Impro become part of my daily regime, enjoyed it, and in a couple of weeks the notes just burned into my head. I used only one scale at a time, and I instantly heard if I went outside the scale. This is justa fun method though the primary goal was not memorize the entire neck.
I tried other videos explaining theCAGED system, so far this is the easiest to understand. Thank you so much. Subscribed.
Congratulations on the 1 million views! Well-deserved as you are one of the best guitar teachers here in TH-cam.
You are the most through, charismatic, easy going, knowledgeable guitar teacher on TH-cam and beyound
See when I first learned about barre chords, I was taught to think of my first finger like a capo, and to use my other fingers to make the open shapes im used to. Never knew that it was called CAGED, but it's definitely helped a ton. Now I need to practice my scales and modes from those positions. My rhythm skills are fine but my improv lead skills are severely lacking
revisiting your video today 7/17/24 ... really good information regarding the CAGED system ... been a guitar player now for 68 years ... will be in my 80th year next year ... just becoming familiar with the term in most recent years ... but learned all the chords and forms back in the mid fifties ... the concept helps ... still learning the instrument and getting back into music theory ... NICE VIDEO ... GOOD WORK ... HELPFUL ...
BOB LANDESS HERE ... LET THE MUSIC PLAY
Hoooooooooly crap... it just clicked at the 4 minute mark and I see where this is going. This is some next level stuff
I would like to say, after certain online courses I have purchased and other videos I have come across. You are the only one that helped me finally grasp the idea of the caged system. It was very well explained and I finally understand how it works. Thank you!
Great explanation, concise and thorough.
Easily the simplest and clearest explanation of CAGED system on YT, excellent job.
Forty years ago we just called them cord inversions. Nice explanation though with a catchy anagram. Helps with memorizing.
By far this is the best explanation of how to use the CAGED system I have seen online
i really love Devin Booker, and now he's teaching guitar lessons.
anyway, this video is very helpful! thanks
Very helpful video. Thanks. And thank you for not flipping the neck/dot diagram upside down and backwards. Those immediately warp my mind.
This is actually the best explanation of the CAGED System that I have found! Most other videos never really made sense to me.Thanks!
You are such an excellent guitar teacher. I have paid a professional teacher to learn guitar but I have learned more on my own and also from watching you. thank God for you brother. Keep up the fantastic work.
1:35 Sounds like the intro to Man On The Moon. R.E.M.
it is, the guitarist was holding a beer in one hand and while fretting C accidentally slid up to that and wanted to use it in the song
That was awesome. I've never seen anybody describe the caged system so well. I'm glad I found your videos. Thank you.
Me: “I’m about to learn the caged system 😌this about to be a breeeeze”
Bar chords: In your dreams 😅
Try helping yourself with the other (rhythm) arm, so you can apply more force and maybe lower the action a bit.
Bar chords are easy for me now.
remember thats its pretty much never necessary to really be barring all the strings with the same pressure because youre pretty much always fretting three or two strings with your other fingers, just focus on barring the strings that would be open.
I have been trying to pick up guitar playing for years just for my own entertainment. Being an engineer, I naturally gravitate towards the scientific aspects of anything and the CAGED system has always intrigued yet also frustrated me to the point that I would just stop learning for extended periods of time. You have inspired me to pick up the guitar again after finally grasping this basic concept. Thank you so much.
Dude, just learn songs. Plain and simple. Beatles, Eagles, Dylan.
Your video on the CAGED system showed me with how different chord voicings are connected. It clicked for me. Thank you!
I really dislike commenters who think this is so easy or believe if you only do this, that and the other you're good to go. Guitar is a process and I believe the different approaches to teaching guitar benefit everyone because we all learn differently and are at different stages of proficiency. It does not help any of us to criticise the approach used.
Keep up the good work. This is the first video I've seen of yours and I'm subscribing now. -D.
Awesome Diana. Are you related to Eddie? Yeah many people learn the CAGED system and say it's the ONLY way. It's always silly to have such narrow vision, I agree. :)
No, I am not related to an Eddie but I do have a brother Al who owns a music shop in Inverness, FL.
He made a funny and it went right over your head... lol...
By the way, great lesson. I've been playing on and off for 20 years. And just recently picked it up again. Trying to get over some of the BAD HABITS that I've picked up so long ago. Hell, I never knew where the notes were on the guitar. I knew that you could play the same notes at different places... but never knew the notes or where to find them.
Thanks for this...
Saying that your barre chord is like a capo with your finger is probably the best explanation I've seen for it so far.
My challenge with forming shapes so far is that my fingers behave strangely, like I can bend my ring finger independently from my pinky finger, but I can't bend my pinky finger without my ring finger bending at the same time. Even if I hold it with my other hand, it still wants to bend when I move my pinky.
For any of you who have practiced guitar, and feel like you have gotten nowhere, I would just like to give you my experience with this. First you must burn to get those calluses, but after you have practiced and still felt like you can't move your fingers to the right chords without having to pause, this is what happened to me. I was ready to give it up, but one day I decided to give it another go, before I lost the hardening of my fingers and see if I could remember all that was taught. To my surprise, my fingers very easily went from note to note. I was playing dust in the wind, and hotel california. This used to be a challenge, but without thinking, it just came to me! From there I went on to play some Wasp songs, and now I'm using a 12 and 6 string guitars. Just hang in there, and I promise, it will one day just happen! After this, playing became therapy, and was able to write my own music! I never used a pick, and so I don't think I can really get into that habit at this point. For me, Andres Segovia was my inspiration, and I started off with a classical, which is much easier on your finger tips! Even after switching to an acoustic, it hurt once again, but it was bearable! No blue fingers burning, but there was still a little pain. Then electric was once again a bit of a challenge on my fingers. They are much thicker strings! Once you learn to play on any of them, you can easily go from one to the other and rock out!
Mike, I've been wrestling with this for ages.
Theory has been to be shown to me in so many different forms
for years, and just finally has been explained clearly
(Of course you'll get 20 more views from me re-reviwing this)
Your video makes connecting the dots so much of an easier path.
...Also thank you for the choice placement of plugs saying "We cover this more" instead of
Pimping your site the first 2 minutes, and instead getting to business at hand!!
Your delivery and lessons are clear and short, but not rushed.
GREAT TEACHER!!!
I'm a bass player I've been fortunate to be playing with some pretty heavy cats lately,
making me want to step my game up. I've never been much of a soloist, I'm a Root/ V guy... singers LOVE me...
So I went and bought myself a nice Tele, and have been focusing on a little guitar.
I'm an old head banger that makes a living playing country music so its
Michael Schenker and Brent Mason inspiring me currently...
This was like turning of fog lights!!! Thank you I will surely recommend!!! Off to check the site now. Thanks a Million!!!
I would call that "how to play guitar" big thax mate
Thank you this makes sense without confusion! Now I now why there is a system like CAGED rather than tackling how to do it first.
I JUST found this. Im a pretty good drummer... and a crappy guitar player lol.. but I want to get better but never put in the time. Ive always known about the CAGED system. Mike in this vid does a fantastic job with the "jump" point.
It's really good to see younger guys who aren't ageist & have wisely accessed & absorb the styles & skills of the players who've gone before (I mean the quick reference to Hendrix & the Doobies). In fact, it's encouraging & gratifying to see bright younger musicians...PERIOD. We're in a time where "The Business" is "extracting" (their term) instrumental skill - and so much of what's getting big play & promotion is done with a drum machine a keyboard & a laptop. When I asked some young relatives who their favorite musicians are, they said (Honest!)..."You mean Deejays?" ..Uh-Oh..
This is the best explanation of the caged system I've seen . Thank you for posting it ;)
I didn't know what the CAGED system is but in one sitting you have done that yet so easily. Thanks alot
Me 3 years later... why couldn’t this have been recommended to me sooner!!!
great lesson dude. this is the Great Leap Forward
Omg!!! Thank you for this video! I’m a pianist learning guitar and I’ve been trying to flip inversions - the way I can on the keys - but was stuck on E barres and A barres.
Thanks!
Sir I have recently subscribed to your guitar lessons and realised what I had been missing all these years. Your lessons have no nonsense approach and easy to comprehend.
Awesome to hear my friend!
Interesting.. I taught myself this when I was first starting, but I never knew it was a thing really.. Pretty cool. Never really use the G or 3rd form tho
Genius to have put something so simple together to add to memorizing the most important thing on the guitar ! 🎸
Outstanding 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Ashamed: I've been playing a long time and never learned this! New, old and in between players: LEARN THIS!!!
There's another way the CAGED shapes are connected. In a strange way they are actually all THE SAME SHAPE! Just moved ACROSS the fretboard! Here's how!
Play the full open C chord shape - with the G on the sixth string. Now carefully move each finger across one string on it's same fret. So the finger on the 6th string moves to the 5th string 3rd fret, the finger playing C moves to the F note on the 4th string. Move the finger from the E on the 4th string to the A on the 3rd string.
Because we tune the 2nd string a half step lower relative to the 3rd than all the others we've done so far, the open 3rd string doesn't simply change to being the 2nd string open - we need to finger the first fret of the second string, the C. Next the finger that was on the C note on the second string moves across to the first fret of the 1st string, the F. Lastly, the note that would have been played on string 7, a low B string, if there had been one, moves from the imaginary C note onto the first fret of the sixth string - a low F note.
So now you are playing the F chord using the E shape!! Move down to the open E shape to make things easier - although you could stay in the original frets if you wanted to! If you move each finger position across one string again, raising the 2nd string one fret to compensate for it's different tuning as before, you get the A shape! Ha! You'd be playing Bb if you'd stayed in the original frets.
Move them all again and you get the D shape!! And again to get the G shape. Doing this you move through the "circle of fifths". If you always stay in the frets you were last in, you will go through all 12 major chords like this!
If you had to tune all your strings in fifths (EADGCF) you would find that to play a major chord you would play the same 3 string shape twice across the fretboard - the E shape. EVERY major chord would be played exactly the same way, just moved across the fretboard. Almost impossible to play like this, but easy to imagine and remember. Try it!
So, taking into account the tweak to the tuning of the second string, the caged shapes are actually all the same shape! One shape to rule them all!
Checked out a few of your vids lately and subscribed just now. I needed this. Been playing hard five years but covers. Fun ones like Brownstone, 25 or 6 to 4 etc. I copy but don't understand if that makes sense. I joined an original band and need to know the neck for leads. I'm going to study this thoroughly and I think you do a good job. Thank you. Enjoy the day, and nice made up word there :D
Mind. Blown.
I have been playing guitar for nearly 15 years, having had only a handful of lesson at the beginning, and this is the first time I have come across this system.
Mind… Blown .,, 🤯
You confused me more than helped me, ha ha But I do see the great advantage of understanding the finger placement on the entire fretboard! Thank you so much! I am 62 years old and have played guitar on and off (never serious) only jamming, but I recently have a desire to learn it right? Near the end of my life span but learning is always fun!
What is the confusion? Maybe I can help.
R.i.p BIG DAWG
@@Beasht12 lmfao
Thank you so much! I’ve been learning the guitar on youtube on/off for the past 10+ years. Now that I am able to play basic chords confidently I wanted to challenge myself. Thanks for making this so clear! This would be frustrating otherwise, but your calm voice and pace of teaching is awesome 👏🏼
You got a Bob Ross vibe goin' on. I felt like when I first started playing again watching this. Probably cuz I never fully understood this concept lol. Great vid.
“We’ll just put this finger next to this one over here, because everybody needs a friend.” 🤓
Awesome video. People wanting to learn CAGED, would be lucky to have this be the first lesson they watched. Glad I found your channel.
my head is spinning and i'm drooling x.x
The more I learn, the more I realize I know nothing. I swear I'm going to join your website as soon as I can free up enough room to afford it. I'm disabled so I have to work within a fixed budget. I enjoy your teaching methods so much. I truly than you for making some of your knowledge available for free. You're awesome!
Very clearly explained Mike ......... Have you thought about on doing a signature style on Blackmore ?
Thanks for the great channel.
you explain with simplicity and sympathy, which is uncommon, congratulations
Really great lesson: made completely intelligble what I had previously found mystifying. Thank-you.
This is the first time I've ever tried to actually understand CAGED, I'm glad I finally did. Thanks for making it so easy to understand!
Where were you when I first tried to learn guitar 30 years ago?
I was out on the road playing. :-)
I watched a few vids related to the CAGED system and read about it but this vid was the clearest... and most concise. Well done! You have a new subscriber.
im still confused omg
The chords stuff helps, but I'm not entirely sure how he made the scale going just by having the octaves tbh
@@VArsovski10 The scales follow the same pattern no matter where you are on the neck. So if you know where the root is, you can easily make the scale. For example, in a G major chord, the first finger is on the G note, which is the root of the chord. From the root G, it is easy to create the G major scale by following the pattern. When you move the G major chord shape up to create a C major Chord, you know that the first finger must be a C, so then you can make the C major scale from there.
Dude keep it up, ive seen some of your videos on stuff i cant grasp and i always learn it when watching your videos. Youre great at explaining!
I feel like this could have been set up to understand better if in the beginning you said “I am going to show you how to play five variations of each chord using the finger shapings of c,a,g,e,d” and then shown the example and explained how each chord used the fingering shapes of caged. The way it is explained is a little messy imo and you bring up scales which makes it all the more confusing. Personally I understand what you are saying but it took me a minute and it’s also bc I know the name of notes on frets so I could find the root notes(every c note, d note etc)and work it out from there. Not trying to knock your video I just think it could be slowed down and explained in a way that people could follow easier.
MASTER KILLER.nice.
your right but it's still a better explanation of it than most others
Your right
if it was any slower ,it would have taken an hour to pass on 2-3 minutes worth of information
Yeah, I agree. I couldn't understand what scales (which I don't know) had to do with open and barre chords. I sort of understand the shapes derived from the open chords, but I still don't understand the point, and could never move up the neck which I think is the point in the first place. That's why you still need a person to person teacher. Really learning and thoroughly improving from videos on the internet is next to useless.