The CAGED System For Beautiful Guitar Solos (A Step-by-Step Guide)

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[@jerryfletcher2384]

Finally! Someone explained this CAGED system in a way I could understand it and apply it. Thank you Marco

[@director2bob]

My pleasure. I am happy my videos are helping you. Keep on practicing Jerry.🎸

[@jeffro.]

It has always been quite simple. Some ppl just like to make things complicated when they explain them. I guess they think it makes them seem smart, or whatever. Sorry you had to go through that. It's really very simple, and once you learn it, it becomes more obvious. Then, the things it unlocks, like pairing it with the pentatonic shapes, all of a sudden you know your way around the fretboard. Then suddenly you can easily solo and improvise! Just follow the shapes, you can switch back & forth between chords & fills... Ah, so releasing! You're suddenly an advanced guitar player! All you need to do now is practice, so you're comfortable doing it without thinking about it. I tell you, once I got to this point, then when I'd pick up my guitar, I'd think of a melody. I could just plant my left hand on the strings and play the first note that was in my head! Then all I had to do is picture a shape and I could play the melody that was in my head. Such freedom! It advanced my progress tremendously! Good luck to you!

[@jerryfletcher2384]

Thanks for your affirmation. I'm not near that level. I'm more at just understanding it intellectually but not able to be very expressive. Seems like you are in a great place and your comments are very encouraging. @@jeffro.

[@nyzombiesquad182]

Wish i found this a year ago!! What a good perspective, and way to put it all together in 20 mins...unreal..excellent job!!

[@jimc6687]

This lesson is absolutely indispensable in any serious guitarists' journey and Marco here has produced a wonderful, clear and concise mini course and available to all interested parties at no charge!! At minimum........we all need to support our very nice and talented Italian friend in all ways possible! This great lesson is a game changer, Marco!! Thank-you so much, bud!! Jim C.

[@Stringprodigy]

reads like an ad

[@jeffro.]

Thanks, Marco! Learning the pentatonic shapes associated with the CAGED shapes has really advanced my playing, my confidence, and my ability to improvise! Such freedom! I didn't know I'd ever get here! It also makes learning new songs SO MUCH quicker & easier! It's like i know how to play everything quicker.

[@MrJamlee88]

One of the better and more concise CAGE System videos - really connects the dots!

[@karenwhittaker4418]

You explain the CAGED system so well, making it understandable.Your videos are all great, easy to follow and inspiring for a perpetual novice like me😁🥰

[@leokrissandy5579]

this is what i'm looking for, thank you for showing me the rope marco, been stuck for a while in this caged

[@PedroRAulLopezMacedo76]

Great lesson !!! Thank you Maestro !!!

[@stephendelacruzone]

Bro! 😳The pin finally drop for me! You just taking a key, creating chord progression, and kinda matching a scale in the same key and playing and wandering from one pattern of scale to another.... it finally clicked for me. Cool! I'm gonna have to re-watch this... a lot!

[@w.o.w.o.n.e]

Marco, your lessons are amazing!! Thanx a lot for them! I've learned a lot of your melodies and they help me play and understand music better! Amazing way to study and practice music❤

[@Fari-100]

I'm digging that little strings/organ after effect! 👍🏼 I need to use that more often 😅

[@somsamayvisoonalat7572]

Thank you so much! your explanation is very clear and easy to follow, I am 60 years old entry to play guitar and need a lot of time to get good. thank you, you are the master!!!

[@CamellaFigueiredo]

Love how your teach and explain, the best. Thank you

[@TheKottonheads]

Nice lesson! Always have a problem with the caged system... This helps! Thank You!🎸

[@mabblers]

Beautiful. I have get my playing like that.

[@Aryanprakash24]

Thank u for teaching this 🫂

[@vishalbabla99]

I am having trouble understanding this CAGED system. I've internalized the entire fretboard and know each note on the fret board. There is a tutorial on YT that shows you one shape and from that shape you can play any mode (major, Dorian, minor, lydion, etc...) In any key. With a little bit of music theory, I can also, figure out all the scales and chords that belong to that scale. So, now if I want to play say a Dorian scale in the key of F. I use the shape to find the notes. With a small understanding of music theory, I can figure out the chords that belong to that scale in the key of F. Then I just make my own melodies over chord progressions. For me the 🤯 moment was when I internalized the fret board. After that my guitar playing was exponentially better. I highly recommend everyone learn their fretboard. CAGED system seems to be popular and sounds good. However, once you know how scales and chords are constructed. At that point does the CAGED system even matter? Would it be more beneficial to learn the foundations of music theory of how chords and scales are constructed?

[@theartfuldodger935]

Look at each open chord (C-A-G-E-D). Where is the fretted root? (exclude the roots found on the open strings) The location of the root dictates which CAGED chord shape you play. That's it. That's all it is. You're right. Learn your fretboard notes, find your roots and then form the chord and any associated scale around that root using the intervals (1-3-5-7b ... whatever, plus any other applicable scale notes).

[@GuitarguyRichard56]

Great teacher

[@ronaldrobles8282]

Very informative.. well explained.. thank you very much for sharing.. hope you could make more videos like this 🙏😃

[@raydanielz9408]

Much appreciated and keep up the great work 🙏🏼. I am crazy about CAGED system and Triads

[@0505440213]

I was waiting for CAGED system video from a long time👍

[@uvaldopequeno7409]

Thank you.

[@oknoscyborg3664]

i love really your video, just ine thing i hope you will do it next time. is to rotate the picture of the scales 180 degree to match the side of the guitar you pick

[@bertwhetstone]

Yes Why do you show the illustrated fret board facing opposite your guitar orientation? Makes another mental leap necessary to reverse your pictures.

[@m.vonhollen6673]

I think EDCAG-7; all Dominant 7 chords and start on E just like the guitar. I associate those 5 chords to Mixolydian + the Blues scale: 1-2-b3/3-4-b5-5-6-b7. Even b2/b6/7 can be used chromatically. Only ever go from b3 up to 3, into a Dominant 7 chord tone.

[@guitarplayerassassins7179]

Love it very useful 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@sergedorcelly9571]

Bonsoir Maestro Mwen rejwenn ou teknik ou yo anpil thanks

[@moraytieras2258]

Awesome!

[@roadglide]

100% Marco! Thank you.

[@paddyobrien4321]

Hey man. This is really helpful. Just wanted to ask this question. I understand how the three notes of a triad can be found in the CAGED shapes across the neck. But in the context of soloing over chord changes by playing the pentatonic scale (or major scale), and highlighting chord tones as you go via the memorised CAGED shapes, is there a fast way to know where your fingers need to go to play this same CAGED pattern but for the next chord of a different degree (say the V chord instead of the I)? Like, if you were playing in G major and playing G in the E major shape and then go to a D chord and you have to quickly work out what chord shape to play that will suit the new chord within the same fret range that you've been playing in, is there a way to know what chord shape should be used for the next chord (say a V chord; D) quickly without having memorised it beforehand? (Maybe by using the circle of fifths? I don't know)

[@m.vonhollen6673]

Here’s what I learned: there’s 3 Dominant 7 shapes in each of the 5 positions. So E7/A7/B7 at open position and the 12th fret; then D7/G7/A7 at frets 2-5; C7/F7/G7, frets 4-8; A7/D7/E7, frets 7-10; and G7/C7/D7, frets 9-12. Play over an E7/A7/B7 Blues and use those “shapes” to solo over it in each of the 5 positions. - I hope this helps!

[@anthonyrancourt2131]

¡Gracias!

[@MarcoCirillo]

Thanks a lot Anthony :)

[@lluisrafalessole-classical5068]

Fantastic 🎸🎸🎶👍

[@jayantjrathod]

Awesome Information Thank You So Much 😊

[@michaelsparks6084]

Solid Gold!

[@kennethb.drinkard2010]

I like to make my ear happy,then it's music!

[@cannotfigureoutaname]

That's a great tutorial. Continua così! p.s: Scammer under my comment, don't interact with it.

[@scooter5005]

Good ideas

[@alimov3486]

hi marco im glad to see you do more solo lessons please do this kinda lessons more (: happy new year my friend ❣️

[@rickhammel9541]

when using the CAGED system, do you only play the pentatonic scales within it? can you play the major scale for example?

[@kennethb.drinkard2010]

I definitely need backing tracks, I'll let u know

[@Sensei.shonuff]

Tell me if im understand this correctly So say a song is in the key of A but The chord progression has an E and a G do i play the E chord notes do i just do like E chord in an A shape and G chord A shape or fo i misunderstanding

[@isaacokongo4080]

You are the best

[@Arthur_My_Dear]

Only just realised that the C major pentatonic is only one note different to the Em pentatonic

[@vincele6174]

Hi @MarcoCirillo....Are you saying that I can just target the scale chord tone notes (highlighed in *red) in each shapes in the scale when soloing would be perfectly fine and it would sound awesome? I was watching a bunch of chord tone targeting in solos in other YTubers and get all really confused until your tutorial here. Please shed some light in this subject. Thanks Marco!

[@makarovigarov3540]

Keren

[@user-ey9nh9el8o]

Hello would you give me the link of your city of stars toturial?

[@kokindenom]

Merci☆

[@stuarthoffman4603]

How do I download the backing tracks?

[@readmails3033]

Are you Italian my good and talented friend?

[@smartacousticbidii2576]

Marco baba

[@ColdCanadian911]

Is it possible you could make a quick video of you making the backing track to play over? I just seem to strum the chords and they never sound like those I find in videos such as yours. Are you strumming the major 7 chord or plucking the strings all together to get a different sound ?

[@rickf6375]

x-3-5-4-5-x for cmaj7 x-8-10-9-10-x for fmaj7 those are the basic root position voicings for maj7 chords starting from the 5th string and are the ones he uses in the video. the second voicing he uses for the fmaj7 later on in the video is x-x-3-5-5-5 (barring the top three strings with the pinky)

[@teodelfuego]

I think a good opportunity was missed by not explicitly referring to those all-familiar pentatonic boxes we all know and curse. You used them and mentioned them….

[@AlanMuratet]

your diagram doesn't match the fretboard you are playing. 6th string is on the bottom

[@Ninekilogram]

You'll find that in every tab ever I have no idea why

[@guitawrizt]

May you Soar in 2023 💫

[@standbyme6395]

✌️❤️💪

[@sunesis9073]

Here

[@ritavandingenen7155]

In the C scale phrase you're landing on the B, not Bb right?

[@gypsyfire032011]

@@ritavandingenen7155 I had the same question and it certainly does seem like the B and not the Bb.

[@sunesis9073]

C major scale , yes

[@benjaming.2218]

@@ritavandingenen7155the B from the Cmaj7. CEGB. The 7th scale degree in C Major scale. Not sure why he said Bflat. Also, emphasize the E when playing Fmaj7. FACE.

[@10.000]

I practiced guitar for a 3 years every dat for 5 hours. Observe my progress🚀

[@SF_Curious]

A little too scaly for me

[@rebeccastone3301]

You make wonderful videos for beginners. At some point your viewers will have to detach themselves from all the systems, scales, arpeggios, runs, and get out of their own box. Music is INTANGIBLE. If you can’t FEEL every note, every beat, every change … it’s not meant for you.

[@stephenhanlin2388]

No truer words! Wish I had started w major scales before pentatonic. Then mixing major w minor pentatonic. BB box has that covered

[@lukather1]

Can you explain how arpeggios fit over these caged patterns pls ? 😊

[@Stringprodigy]

not a fan of the caged system. I’d rather use my ears to navigate the fretboard.

[@nicholassoland8025]

Then why did you watch the video? Get a life

[@brianmincher716]

I’m not a fan of maps. I prefer to wander around till I wind up where I want to be by random luck.

[@jyeangry4375]

why you here commenting? If youre not a fan why click the video in the first place?

[@johnpanya7637]

I am 14 years playing have come to realise that the caged system is very important. Just relising that order matters in the system of music. Instead of wandering on the fretboard and being limited its better to gain the knowledge and have unlimited possibilities.

[@TheMaxKids]

Not quite virtue signaling but I get it.