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Originally Posted by Kirk Lorange
No, iltpff, it's the open G shape we're referring to; the CAGED system isn't so much a guide to playing chords, but a way to see the notes that make up the chords (1s, 3s and 5s)so you can use them to create melody. If you look at the whole template, which stretches from one end of the fretboard to the other, you're looking at all the chord tones for that chord. They are the strongest notes to wrap your melodies around.
Once you get the major CAGED template locked in, you can then adjust it mentally for any other chord flavor ... you add notes to the template for extended chords, tweak any of the 1,3 5s for sus, aug, dim chords. It comes in very handy. Below is the CAGED pattern for C major. All those notes are either 1s, 3s or 5s of C major. All 12 major chords can be seen in this way.
It starts with the open C shape; then the A form barre C chord; next comes the open G shape you were asking about; then it's the E form barre shape; then the open D shape. Then it starts again above the 12th fret.
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Kirk, is this for every key? How do you apply the CAGED system shaped chord to the Key of "D" with the open D major on the second fret being the first chord, then G major as the second, then A7; are you still using the CAGED system? If so, I thought that the Caged system were the chord shapes of the letters CAGED?
Are you supposed to for, for example, take the 1, 3, & 5 notes and fins them all on the fret board, then find the chord shape for the D first on the lower frets, then A somewhere higher up where the a notes are, etc?
I am a little confused as in the CAGED, the A is the 6th chord from the C.
I am making a mess out of it huh?