Demystifying Triads and CAGED: Unlock the fretboard and improvise freely
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Published 2023-02-08
► Keywords: CAGED system, triads, guitar lesson, pentatonic scales, music theory, major scale modes, Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Phrygian
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► Recommended video viewing order:
Full playlist: • Guitar scales made easy (Recommended ...
Individual videos:
1. Use "the warp" to reduce memorization: • HOW TO VISUALIZE CHORDS & SCALES: A s...
2. Master the pentatonic scale with the rectangle and stack: • Two Simple Shapes UNLOCK the Pentaton...
3. Learn the notes!: • Memorize the fretboard: 3 reasons why...
4. Intervals: Guitar's secret decoder ring: • Intervals: guitar's secret decoder ring
5. Understand the modes: • Demystifying the modes on guitar: it ...
6. The best way to learn/play the modes: • This hack makes learning the modes on...
7. Another easy way to play the modes: • Learn ALL the Modes on Guitar in Just...
8. The CAGED system and triads: • Demystifying Triads and CAGED: Unlock...
9. The 3nps system: • Unlock the fretboard with three notes...
10. Instant harmony: • Easy Double-Stop Harmonies: From The ...
► Chapters
00:00 - Introduction & CAGED System overview
02:38 - Triads, simplified
05:15 - Triad inversions
07:47 - Modifying fingerings to change triad types
08:31 - The CAGED system - altering notes to change chord type
09:50 - The CAGED system - the pentatonic layer
11:44 - The CAGED system - adding the modes
12:40 - Using the CAGED system for improvisation
► Thanks again to Dave DiCenso, Jeff Gilman, and Jake Shapiro for the exit music "Sea Horses" from the Kilgore Trout Sessions.
All Comments (21)
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If you're new to the channel, I'd like to offer a warm welcome! To see how this video fits into the big picture of fretboard understanding, check out this overview video: https://youtu.be/tpC115zjKiw or download a FREE 12-page overview e-book: fretscience.myshopify.com/products/building-fretbo… Individual cheat sheets and a heavily discounted bundle are available for purchase at: fretscience.myshopify.com/ 🎸🧪
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I am a Guitarist and secondary school (12-18 year olds) music teacher of 25 years. This by far the best video I have ever seen giving a practical approach to putting scale and harmonic theory onto the fret board. Absolutely love it... Thank you for your great work.
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Unbelievable! For most of us who started our guitar playing journeys as beginners in the late 80s and early 90s this information would have been a godsend. Sadly I spent much of my time either noodling, watching REH videos and taking lessons from teachers who really didn't have the fretboard science knowledge themselves. Oh, how I envy young people of today who are about to start their journey into learning the guitar. Thanks you.
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These lessons have been a Godsend. My playing has improved tremendously and my understanding of the fretboard has been growing exponentially. Thank you for helping me out of a decade long rut. 💯🎸
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The best applied music theory videos I have ever seen, bar none! The only "complaint" anyone could ever have, is that you manage to pack so much information into 15 minutes, others would probably make 4 videos out of it. Important to make sure you have internalized every aspect before you move on to the next, or valuable information might just get washed away. Thank you so much for your efforts, you're awesome!
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As someone coming from a piano background and trying to make sense of the fretboard I cannot thank you enough. This video has taught me more in 15 minutes than any other source has in the 6 months I've been attempting to learn. I really appreciate this video's focus on bridging the gap between theory and shapes as all other videos seemed to focus on the latter without really explaining why these shapes work!
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I really connect with the way you teach and would strongly suggest that if someone is have trouble leaning with other guitar videos, STOP HERE and invest your time wisely and learn with the fret science videos. They are both excellent and unique.
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My head hurts, but I think I'm starting to get it. Shapes and sounds that I used to randomly hunt for are actually parts of predictable and reliable system. Thank you sir!
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Fantastic it’s like you found a cheat for the Rubix cube…
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Thank you
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Thanks!
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This is the best explanation I have ever seen. There are so many so called teachers on YouTube that can’t explain this, I get it now, so many lightbulb moments here. You just put my puzzled brain back into pieces. Thank you so much.
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🎸💯
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Great lesson, but if you think the consistent shapes of the augmented triads aren’t useful, you haven’t looked into Pat Martino’s system. It’s fascinating stuff.
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Instead of mindlessly memorizing fretboard scales this makes so much more sense to me! I finally feel like this is worth my time memorizing the fretboard since it's based on a simple logic I can apply anywhere. It also helps a lot mastering a 7-string guitar. With that being said: Yeah science and SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
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💎✨👌
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Just wow!
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great video
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Is there a method program with these ? Just trying to comment lol
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BRAVO!!
