[Beak]

Are there any runs or licks that anyone could suggest to me that'll help with the CAGED system, and memorizing it? It seems that's where I'm having trouble. I can get into one chord form, I've got that, maybe play a few from others up and down the neck, but as for the rest my mind completely blanks them out.

I would just keep doing the 'opera warmup' Kirk suggested, but to be honest, I can't follow that. Where did you even start!?!. Yeah, I'ma noob , but if that was translated into a tab perhaps? Even notation, I won't be picky, (though notation is hard for me to read concerning guitar.)

Thank you all in advance for the help.

[Doug]

One thing that helped me out with the CAGED system was knowing that the shapes follow themselves on the neck. For instance, if you're playing a chord in the middle of the neck in an E shape then that same chord will be in the G shape down the neck (closer to the nut) and in the D shape up neck. Or if you're playing on the C shape, the same chord can be found just up the neck in the A shape or just down the neck in the D shape.

Maybe this was obvious to everyone but me.

[Beak]

Whoa. I certainly was ignoring that piece of knowledge, though it was right there in Kirk's lesson about it. *facepalm*

That's led me to one way then, simply playing the barres of the C chord in different shapes down the neck to try and remember them and then play them as single notes. Thanks man.

[Kirk Lorange]

Hi, Beak ... there is a very succinct way of keeping track of it all, but that's the subject of my book/dvd PlaneTalk so I'm afraid I can't give it away here as I earn my living selling it.

[Beak]

Ha. No worries, I understand. Plan to buy that gizmo one day, so perhaps I'll get the benefit of feeding you for this secret. Or supplying whatever you spend your money on.

[Rodnich]

Does the PlaneTalk method complement the CAGED system? I thought they were two different concepts altogether.

[Kirk Lorange]

CAGED is the way the guitar in standard tuning is laid out so, yes, PT certainly taps into that master template. Any system would have to.