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Originally Posted by Sentry
How exactly does memorizing the patterns shown in Kirk's CAGED lesson help? I mean, I know that if I memorize those patterns I'll know, with practice, the location of every C, E, and G note on the fretboard. Is that all CAGED will do for me?
[EDIT] And btw, another question: How is CAGED different from Planetalk? |
No, CAGED will do
much more for you than that, but you need a teacher too. For instance, you may not use C-shaped barre chords, but you might pick 3 notes from that shape and make miniature chords. Lots of tricks from popular songs use that. One I was listening to today is "Alright Now" by Free/Paul Rogers.
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--2-----3--2
--2-----2--2
--2-----4--2
--0--0-(0)-0
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It jumps between those two shapes. If you look at the 2nd shape, it's
part of a C-shaped barre chord at 2nd fret, which is what D actually is. Heaps of songs use it. The Loved one By INXS uses that idea too.
So the idea, rhythm-wise, is to pick out partial chords (2 or 3 notes) out of the CAGED shapes. With a loud electric guitar, you don't need to play all 6 strings! Start Me Up by the Stones, Crazy Train, Hendrix stuff. All use partial chords.
PT is a different slant on it. Just my 2c here, but I think the idea of PT is to allow you to improvise more freely and musically . PT is Kirk's trade secret, so I hope it's OK to share with you that if you buy PT (assuming you haven't already) that he gives you access to a secret-squirel exclusive other forum where he is kind enough to answer your questions about how to use it, and there are some very useful diagrams on that site that hint at how Kirk comes up with his lines.
To be honest, I bought PT and sat on it for a year, unwilling to let go of scales, since when I went to lessons everything was pentatonic...and now it's gone modal at lessons. But the PT way is great if you want to improvise over chord changes like jazz players do, and so I've come back to it. It takes some work, and it's different from just running up and down a scale...again.