Chords for The CAGED System In Under 10 Minutes
Tempo:
76.4 bpm
Chords used:
C
G
A
D
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
What's up everybody?
It's Mike here from the Art of Guitar here to [C] show you a quick example of the cage system
And I see this explained a lot online
And I just wanted to make a very simple version of it so that everybody can
digest it at first and then see the importance of it and then hopefully want to dive in a little bit deeper to really understand it
because it is a really great way to understand the entire neck and to be able to connect patterns together and
Chord shapes and all that good stuff
So you'd be able to like fly around the neck and play whatever you want
With relative ease after a very short time just to break it down into the smallest bits of information
If you took any chord shape that you know in an open position such as C, [A] A,
[G] G, [D] E, D
[C] They could be broken down into five shapes and luckily it spells a word caged
It could easily just spelt nonsense, you know, so okay, so let's go ahead and start with the C shape
So from now on we're gonna call that the first form
[Bb] The A shape will be [A] the second form.
By the way, if you don't know your open chords yet
Learn those first very important then the open [G] G shape.
That's the third form
The [E] E shape is four and D is [D] five
[C] So a lot of people get that far and they understand that but
They have trouble when it starts to creep up the neck because what we need to do is take each one of those shapes and
Turn them into bar chords in order to do that.
You have to take let's say the first shape C
First form I should call it and you have to reproduce that shape
But move it up so people think okay.
Do I just slide my fingers up?
Let's say if we just want to move up two frets
[Em] That sounds cool, but that's no longer a pure major chord like it was back here back here
It's C major when you slide everything up like that
It's not a true D major
Like you would think because you went up a whole step when you're back here playing the first shape
You have two open strings happening at the same time your first string and your third string are open
So if you pull the shape forward towards you those get left behind and they don't change like these do these move up in pitch
Because you slid up the open strings stay the same so you kind of end up with this
Mixed chord shape you want a pure major chord if you're gonna [G] start to move these around
So what you need to do is you need to free up your index finger
How you do that is you basically remake the chord but with your other fingers that can be a little bit tricky for people
Then your first fingers free to act as a capo
Which you would just put right here across the second fret and then you would [D] have a pure major chord
So that would be now D major using the first form
So we're [C] gonna do that with all our chords eventually all our chord shapes
But the secret is how we put them together like puzzle pieces to take up the entire neck in essence
You could play the same chord five different ways
And the cool thing is is they spell cage like I said and as you spell caged using the different shapes of the neck
They fit together like Tetris pieces or like puzzle pieces and they construct the entire neck
So you're able to move around and play in any position that you want to and know what you're doing
Okay, so I'm just gonna do a quick example of this.
So we have the C chord
Which now we call the first form remember that keep it keep an eye on that
Now we have the root note right here.
That's a C note
So now if [A] we took the second form which looks like this in the back your head you should be thinking a
And [B] we wanted to move that one up a whole step.
Well, you would take this straight line and just
Slide it up two frets like that
But remember what we have to do we have to fret those open strings two frets higher as well in this case
So I'm gonna take my first finger just laid flat across
Now it's a B chord using the second form if I move that all up one [C] fret
Now it's a C chord using the second form
Now we're back to C again.
Remember we talked about that with the first form.
Well, check this out
Notice where my first finger is.
It's right here on this fifth string third fret.
That's the root note C
Well when I'm here, I have to use this shape for it to be a C major chord
So you could say once again, we're playing a C major using the second form
But now if I want to play C major using the first form I have to go like this
It's nice that that's an open chord shape
So both chords are C major chords
But this one is the first form and this one is the second form
By the way, a lot of you guys will play the second form bar chord like this
If you don't quite know all your bar chords or even your notes going up the neck you can check out the website
We talked about that.
It's a very important part of this whole process.
So after the second form
You're going okay.
What's the third form?
It's the G shape remember if you spell caged G is the third letter.
So G is the [G] third form
Like that [A] so we need to do now is move that up until we get to a C note
This can be a little bit crazy because watch this you notice the shape right here.
This is like the modern G shape
I'm gonna do the old-fashioned G shape with just three fingers and
Notice there's a fret here and then it's the nut Okay
So that's important because these are the open strings right behind the nut if you move this forward one
These have to follow move forward.
These have to follow just like a capo would okay
We still have that fret gap in between
So what a lot of people freak out about is if you want to do this with one hand you have to recreate the G
Shape with your other three fingers and lay your first finger flat across like this
It's a bummer of a chord shape like that
So a lot of people just play partial third form when they try to do a bar chord
They'll they do this either do this or this or they'll do something like that
But either way, it's a bummer to have to do this
It's easy to [Abm] solo within that shape, but not to play the actual full chord.
So don't worry
We don't have to do this for very long.
Okay, so if we start back here, it's open G just with different fingers
Using the third form then we slide up two frets and we have to bar across like that
That's gonna be a major using the third form
Move it up two more frets.
Now.
We have B major
Using the third form and then if we move up one more fret to the eighth fret with our ring finger now, that's C major
Using the third form see how it's right here
Keep track of this first finger laying flat across.
Okay, this is really important of how it connects to the second form
[C] So if I move back now to the second form in C major there it is right here again
so that's the connection point between those two boom and
Boom, just like that.
So let me paste the first three together.
Now.
We have the first form in C major
We have the second form in C major.
I'm gonna do it this way
And we have the third form in C major
They're all C major.
Isn't that crazy?
And they like I said, they're glued together because they have connection points
Which are very important.
So if eventually you learn where the starting and stopping points are for each chord, you can play scales with them
I'll just do major pentatonic for today.
That's the first form major pentatonic second [Am] form
[C] third form
Third form has two easy octaves you can jump to so that's why I did that twice on that one
And then you would go to the fourth form in the fifth form
So I'll just do those quickly because we kind of explained the other ones
I just want to run through this since this is just a demonstration.
So now this is the fourth form
Here's the major pentatonic here
There's two of those as well.
And then the weird fifth form that looks like a D shape
It's found way up there the connection points really just here, but watch [E] this
[C] So that's the major pentatonic in the fifth form
After the fifth form, we're back to the first form
But now we're gonna be doing it as a bar chord versus an open chord
So it's nice it goes from C to A to G E and then D shapes and then back to C and it repeats
so
That's how really good guitar players can see the entire neck and play whatever they want
Let's say we're playing in C major and I just want to play a C major pentatonic and I just want to jump around the neck
And have fun.
Well, I can pick any one of those forms
I'll just pick the third form and be right here because I know the shape
That's C major using the chord shape I know where the starting and stopping points are for that where the C's are
And I know the scales from one C to the next so I can do major
[G] [C] That's diatonic
Pentatonic that's really good for like Hendrix II stuff
[Em] [Dm]
[C] Doobie Brothers all that kind of stuff.
We also have minor scales.
When you get better you'll be able to do that as [Cm] well
[C] So it's pretty amazing once you do connect the whole neck and know some scale formulas what you could do
You're basically free to roam around the entire neck once you get to that point
So we're just about to shoot all of these forms on the website today
so it's gonna be a long day long night and
Probably 12 hours of editing
But it's gonna be worth it in the end when everybody understands the cage system and they could just solo and feel confident
That's my goal for everybody.
Remember.
It's not always about just soloing either
It's about connecting chords as well having new options when it comes to moving around the neck
and then you guys are gonna be able to feel more free on the guitar and
Those of you who just knew your open chord shapes and maybe a few bar chords are gonna be able to fill in those missing
Pieces now and do the entire neck.
So that's my goal for everybody.
So, okay
I hope that helped you guys sort of understand the cage system a little bit better
I know there's a little bit of confusion on my last video because I just kind of got it out there quick
But we're gonna replace it with this video
Which is a little more in-depth for you guys
And maybe you even got a few
Pointers out of this video that you can go ahead and already use without even having to visit the site
But feel free to check out our site
We got a lot of stuff coming up and a lot of lessons already down.
So we'll
It's Mike here from the Art of Guitar here to [C] show you a quick example of the cage system
And I see this explained a lot online
And I just wanted to make a very simple version of it so that everybody can
digest it at first and then see the importance of it and then hopefully want to dive in a little bit deeper to really understand it
because it is a really great way to understand the entire neck and to be able to connect patterns together and
Chord shapes and all that good stuff
So you'd be able to like fly around the neck and play whatever you want
With relative ease after a very short time just to break it down into the smallest bits of information
If you took any chord shape that you know in an open position such as C, [A] A,
[G] G, [D] E, D
[C] They could be broken down into five shapes and luckily it spells a word caged
It could easily just spelt nonsense, you know, so okay, so let's go ahead and start with the C shape
So from now on we're gonna call that the first form
[Bb] The A shape will be [A] the second form.
By the way, if you don't know your open chords yet
Learn those first very important then the open [G] G shape.
That's the third form
The [E] E shape is four and D is [D] five
[C] So a lot of people get that far and they understand that but
They have trouble when it starts to creep up the neck because what we need to do is take each one of those shapes and
Turn them into bar chords in order to do that.
You have to take let's say the first shape C
First form I should call it and you have to reproduce that shape
But move it up so people think okay.
Do I just slide my fingers up?
Let's say if we just want to move up two frets
[Em] That sounds cool, but that's no longer a pure major chord like it was back here back here
It's C major when you slide everything up like that
It's not a true D major
Like you would think because you went up a whole step when you're back here playing the first shape
You have two open strings happening at the same time your first string and your third string are open
So if you pull the shape forward towards you those get left behind and they don't change like these do these move up in pitch
Because you slid up the open strings stay the same so you kind of end up with this
Mixed chord shape you want a pure major chord if you're gonna [G] start to move these around
So what you need to do is you need to free up your index finger
How you do that is you basically remake the chord but with your other fingers that can be a little bit tricky for people
Then your first fingers free to act as a capo
Which you would just put right here across the second fret and then you would [D] have a pure major chord
So that would be now D major using the first form
So we're [C] gonna do that with all our chords eventually all our chord shapes
But the secret is how we put them together like puzzle pieces to take up the entire neck in essence
You could play the same chord five different ways
And the cool thing is is they spell cage like I said and as you spell caged using the different shapes of the neck
They fit together like Tetris pieces or like puzzle pieces and they construct the entire neck
So you're able to move around and play in any position that you want to and know what you're doing
Okay, so I'm just gonna do a quick example of this.
So we have the C chord
Which now we call the first form remember that keep it keep an eye on that
Now we have the root note right here.
That's a C note
So now if [A] we took the second form which looks like this in the back your head you should be thinking a
And [B] we wanted to move that one up a whole step.
Well, you would take this straight line and just
Slide it up two frets like that
But remember what we have to do we have to fret those open strings two frets higher as well in this case
So I'm gonna take my first finger just laid flat across
Now it's a B chord using the second form if I move that all up one [C] fret
Now it's a C chord using the second form
Now we're back to C again.
Remember we talked about that with the first form.
Well, check this out
Notice where my first finger is.
It's right here on this fifth string third fret.
That's the root note C
Well when I'm here, I have to use this shape for it to be a C major chord
So you could say once again, we're playing a C major using the second form
But now if I want to play C major using the first form I have to go like this
It's nice that that's an open chord shape
So both chords are C major chords
But this one is the first form and this one is the second form
By the way, a lot of you guys will play the second form bar chord like this
If you don't quite know all your bar chords or even your notes going up the neck you can check out the website
We talked about that.
It's a very important part of this whole process.
So after the second form
You're going okay.
What's the third form?
It's the G shape remember if you spell caged G is the third letter.
So G is the [G] third form
Like that [A] so we need to do now is move that up until we get to a C note
This can be a little bit crazy because watch this you notice the shape right here.
This is like the modern G shape
I'm gonna do the old-fashioned G shape with just three fingers and
Notice there's a fret here and then it's the nut Okay
So that's important because these are the open strings right behind the nut if you move this forward one
These have to follow move forward.
These have to follow just like a capo would okay
We still have that fret gap in between
So what a lot of people freak out about is if you want to do this with one hand you have to recreate the G
Shape with your other three fingers and lay your first finger flat across like this
It's a bummer of a chord shape like that
So a lot of people just play partial third form when they try to do a bar chord
They'll they do this either do this or this or they'll do something like that
But either way, it's a bummer to have to do this
It's easy to [Abm] solo within that shape, but not to play the actual full chord.
So don't worry
We don't have to do this for very long.
Okay, so if we start back here, it's open G just with different fingers
Using the third form then we slide up two frets and we have to bar across like that
That's gonna be a major using the third form
Move it up two more frets.
Now.
We have B major
Using the third form and then if we move up one more fret to the eighth fret with our ring finger now, that's C major
Using the third form see how it's right here
Keep track of this first finger laying flat across.
Okay, this is really important of how it connects to the second form
[C] So if I move back now to the second form in C major there it is right here again
so that's the connection point between those two boom and
Boom, just like that.
So let me paste the first three together.
Now.
We have the first form in C major
We have the second form in C major.
I'm gonna do it this way
And we have the third form in C major
They're all C major.
Isn't that crazy?
And they like I said, they're glued together because they have connection points
Which are very important.
So if eventually you learn where the starting and stopping points are for each chord, you can play scales with them
I'll just do major pentatonic for today.
That's the first form major pentatonic second [Am] form
[C] third form
Third form has two easy octaves you can jump to so that's why I did that twice on that one
And then you would go to the fourth form in the fifth form
So I'll just do those quickly because we kind of explained the other ones
I just want to run through this since this is just a demonstration.
So now this is the fourth form
Here's the major pentatonic here
There's two of those as well.
And then the weird fifth form that looks like a D shape
It's found way up there the connection points really just here, but watch [E] this
[C] So that's the major pentatonic in the fifth form
After the fifth form, we're back to the first form
But now we're gonna be doing it as a bar chord versus an open chord
So it's nice it goes from C to A to G E and then D shapes and then back to C and it repeats
so
That's how really good guitar players can see the entire neck and play whatever they want
Let's say we're playing in C major and I just want to play a C major pentatonic and I just want to jump around the neck
And have fun.
Well, I can pick any one of those forms
I'll just pick the third form and be right here because I know the shape
That's C major using the chord shape I know where the starting and stopping points are for that where the C's are
And I know the scales from one C to the next so I can do major
[G] [C] That's diatonic
Pentatonic that's really good for like Hendrix II stuff
[Em] [Dm]
[C] Doobie Brothers all that kind of stuff.
We also have minor scales.
When you get better you'll be able to do that as [Cm] well
[C] So it's pretty amazing once you do connect the whole neck and know some scale formulas what you could do
You're basically free to roam around the entire neck once you get to that point
So we're just about to shoot all of these forms on the website today
so it's gonna be a long day long night and
Probably 12 hours of editing
But it's gonna be worth it in the end when everybody understands the cage system and they could just solo and feel confident
That's my goal for everybody.
Remember.
It's not always about just soloing either
It's about connecting chords as well having new options when it comes to moving around the neck
and then you guys are gonna be able to feel more free on the guitar and
Those of you who just knew your open chord shapes and maybe a few bar chords are gonna be able to fill in those missing
Pieces now and do the entire neck.
So that's my goal for everybody.
So, okay
I hope that helped you guys sort of understand the cage system a little bit better
I know there's a little bit of confusion on my last video because I just kind of got it out there quick
But we're gonna replace it with this video
Which is a little more in-depth for you guys
And maybe you even got a few
Pointers out of this video that you can go ahead and already use without even having to visit the site
But feel free to check out our site
We got a lot of stuff coming up and a lot of lessons already down.
So we'll
Key:
C
G
A
D
E
C
G
A
What's up everybody?
It's Mike here from the Art of Guitar here to [C] show you a quick example of the cage system
And I see this explained a lot online
And I just wanted to make a very simple version of it so that everybody can
digest it at first and then see the importance of it and then hopefully want to dive in a little bit deeper to really understand it
because it is a really great way to understand the entire neck and to be able to connect patterns together and
Chord shapes and all that good stuff
So you'd be able to like fly around the neck and play whatever you want
With relative ease after a very short time just to break it down into the smallest bits of information
If you took any chord shape that you know in an open position such as C, [A] A,
[G] G, [D] E, D
[C] They could be broken down into five shapes and luckily it spells a word caged
It could easily just spelt nonsense, you know, so okay, so let's go ahead and start with the C shape
So from now on we're gonna call that the first form
[Bb] The A shape will be [A] the second form.
By the way, if you don't know your open chords yet
Learn those first very important then the open [G] G shape.
That's the third form
The [E] E shape is four and D is [D] five
_ [C] So a lot of people get that far and they understand that but
They have trouble when it starts to creep up the neck because what we need to do is take each one of those shapes and
Turn them into bar chords in order to do that.
You have to take let's say the first shape C
_ First form I should call it and you have to reproduce that shape
But move it up so people think okay.
Do I just slide my fingers up?
Let's say if we just want to move up two frets
[Em] That sounds cool, but that's no longer a pure major chord like it was back here back here
It's C major when you slide everything up like that
It's not a true D major
Like you would think because you went up a whole step when you're back here playing the first shape
You have two open strings happening at the same time your first string and your third string are open
So if you pull the shape forward towards you those get left behind and they don't change like these do these move up in pitch
Because you slid up the open strings stay the same so you kind of end up with this
Mixed chord shape you want a pure major chord if you're gonna [G] start to move these around
So what you need to do is you need to free up your index finger
How you do that is you basically remake the chord but with your other fingers that can be a little bit tricky for people
Then your first fingers free to act as a capo
Which you would just put right here across the second fret and then you would [D] have a pure major chord
So that would be now D major using the first form
So we're [C] gonna do that with all our chords eventually all our chord shapes
But the secret is how we put them together like puzzle pieces to take up the entire neck in essence
You could play the same chord five different ways
And the cool thing is is they spell cage like I said and as you spell caged using the different shapes of the neck
They fit together like Tetris pieces or like puzzle pieces and they construct the entire neck
So you're able to move around and play in any position that you want to and know what you're doing
Okay, so I'm just gonna do a quick example of this.
So we have the C chord
Which now we call the first form remember that keep it keep an eye on that
Now we have the root note right here.
That's a C note _ _
So now if [A] we took the second form which looks like this in the back your head you should be thinking a
And [B] we wanted to move that one up a whole step.
Well, you would take this straight line and just
Slide it up two frets like that
But remember what we have to do we have to fret those open strings two frets higher as well in this case
So I'm gonna take my first finger just laid flat across
_ Now it's a B chord using the second form if I move that all up one [C] fret
Now it's a C chord using the second form
Now we're back to C again.
Remember we talked about that with the first form.
Well, check this out
Notice where my first finger is.
It's right here on this fifth string third fret.
That's the root note C
Well when I'm here, I have to use this shape for it to be a C major chord
So you could say once again, we're playing a C major using the second form
But now if I want to play C major using the first form I have to go like this
It's _ nice that that's an open chord shape
_ So both chords are C major chords
But this one is the first form and this one is the second form
By the way, a lot of you guys will play the second form bar chord like this
If you don't quite know all your bar chords or even your notes going up the neck you can check out the website
We talked about that.
It's a very important part of this whole process.
So after the second form
You're going okay.
What's the third form?
It's the G shape remember if you spell caged G is the third letter.
So G is the [G] third form
Like that [A] so we need to do now is move that up until we get to a C note
This can be a little bit crazy because watch this you notice the shape right here.
This is like the modern G shape
I'm gonna do the old-fashioned G shape with just three fingers and
Notice there's a fret here and then it's the nut Okay
So that's important because these are the open strings right behind the nut if you move this forward one
These have to follow move forward.
These have to follow just like a capo would okay
We still have that fret gap in between
So what a lot of people freak out about is if you want to do this with one hand you have to recreate the G
Shape with your other three fingers and lay your first finger flat across like this
It's a bummer of a chord shape like that
So a lot of people just play partial third form when they try to do a bar chord
They'll they do this either do this or this or they'll do something like that
But either way, it's a bummer to have to do this
It's easy to [Abm] solo within that shape, but not to play the actual full chord.
So don't worry
We don't have to do this for very long.
Okay, so if we start back here, it's open G just with different fingers
Using the third form then we slide up two frets and we have to bar across like that
That's gonna be a major using the third form
Move it up two more frets.
Now.
We have B major
Using the third form and then if we move up one more fret to the eighth fret with our ring finger now, that's C major
Using the third form see how it's right here
Keep track of this first finger laying flat across.
Okay, this is really important of how it connects to the second form
[C] So if I move back now to the second form in C major there it is right here again
so that's the connection point between those two boom and
Boom, just like that.
So let me paste the first three together.
Now.
We have the first form in C major
We have the second form in C major.
I'm gonna do it this way
And we have the third form in C major
They're all C major.
Isn't that crazy?
And they like I said, they're glued together because they have connection points
Which are very important.
So if eventually you learn where the starting and stopping points are for each chord, you can play scales with them
I'll just do major pentatonic for today.
_ That's the first form major pentatonic second [Am] form
[C] third form
_ _ Third form has two easy octaves you can jump to so that's why I did that twice on that one
And then you would go to the fourth form in the fifth form
So I'll just do those quickly because we kind of explained the other ones
I just want to run through this since this is just a demonstration.
So now this is the fourth form
Here's the major pentatonic here
There's _ _ two of those as well.
And then the weird fifth form that looks like a D shape
It's found way up there the connection points really just here, but watch [E] this
[C] So _ _ _ _ that's the major pentatonic in the fifth form
After the fifth form, we're back to the first form
But now we're gonna be doing it as a bar chord versus an open chord
So it's nice it goes from C to A to G E and then D shapes and then back to C and it repeats
so
That's how really good guitar players can see the entire neck and play whatever they want
Let's say we're playing in C major and I just want to play a C major pentatonic and I just want to jump around the neck
And have fun.
Well, I can pick any one of those forms
I'll just pick the third form and be right here because I know the shape
That's C major using the chord shape I know where the starting and stopping points are for that where the C's are
_ And I know the scales from one C to the next so I can do major
[G] _ [C] That's diatonic
_ Pentatonic _ that's really good for like Hendrix II stuff
_ _ [Em] _ [Dm] _
[C] _ Doobie Brothers all that kind of stuff.
We also have minor scales.
When you get better you'll be able to do that as [Cm] well
[C] _ So it's pretty amazing once you do connect the whole neck and know some scale formulas what you could do
You're basically free to roam around the entire neck once you get to that point
So we're just about to shoot all of these forms on the website today
so it's gonna be a long day long night and
Probably 12 hours of editing
But it's gonna be worth it in the end when everybody understands the cage system and they could just solo and feel confident
That's my goal for everybody.
Remember.
It's not always about just soloing either
It's about connecting chords as well having new options when it comes to moving around the neck
and then you guys are gonna be able to feel more free on the guitar and
Those of you who just knew your open chord shapes and maybe a few bar chords are gonna be able to fill in those missing
Pieces now and do the entire neck.
So that's my goal for everybody.
So, okay
I hope that helped you guys sort of understand the cage system a little bit better
I know there's a little bit of confusion on my last video because I just kind of got it out there quick
But we're gonna replace it with this video
Which is a little more in-depth for you guys
And maybe you even got a few
Pointers out of this video that you can go ahead and already use without even having to visit the site
But feel free to check out our site
We got a lot of stuff coming up and a lot of lessons already down.
So we'll
It's Mike here from the Art of Guitar here to [C] show you a quick example of the cage system
And I see this explained a lot online
And I just wanted to make a very simple version of it so that everybody can
digest it at first and then see the importance of it and then hopefully want to dive in a little bit deeper to really understand it
because it is a really great way to understand the entire neck and to be able to connect patterns together and
Chord shapes and all that good stuff
So you'd be able to like fly around the neck and play whatever you want
With relative ease after a very short time just to break it down into the smallest bits of information
If you took any chord shape that you know in an open position such as C, [A] A,
[G] G, [D] E, D
[C] They could be broken down into five shapes and luckily it spells a word caged
It could easily just spelt nonsense, you know, so okay, so let's go ahead and start with the C shape
So from now on we're gonna call that the first form
[Bb] The A shape will be [A] the second form.
By the way, if you don't know your open chords yet
Learn those first very important then the open [G] G shape.
That's the third form
The [E] E shape is four and D is [D] five
_ [C] So a lot of people get that far and they understand that but
They have trouble when it starts to creep up the neck because what we need to do is take each one of those shapes and
Turn them into bar chords in order to do that.
You have to take let's say the first shape C
_ First form I should call it and you have to reproduce that shape
But move it up so people think okay.
Do I just slide my fingers up?
Let's say if we just want to move up two frets
[Em] That sounds cool, but that's no longer a pure major chord like it was back here back here
It's C major when you slide everything up like that
It's not a true D major
Like you would think because you went up a whole step when you're back here playing the first shape
You have two open strings happening at the same time your first string and your third string are open
So if you pull the shape forward towards you those get left behind and they don't change like these do these move up in pitch
Because you slid up the open strings stay the same so you kind of end up with this
Mixed chord shape you want a pure major chord if you're gonna [G] start to move these around
So what you need to do is you need to free up your index finger
How you do that is you basically remake the chord but with your other fingers that can be a little bit tricky for people
Then your first fingers free to act as a capo
Which you would just put right here across the second fret and then you would [D] have a pure major chord
So that would be now D major using the first form
So we're [C] gonna do that with all our chords eventually all our chord shapes
But the secret is how we put them together like puzzle pieces to take up the entire neck in essence
You could play the same chord five different ways
And the cool thing is is they spell cage like I said and as you spell caged using the different shapes of the neck
They fit together like Tetris pieces or like puzzle pieces and they construct the entire neck
So you're able to move around and play in any position that you want to and know what you're doing
Okay, so I'm just gonna do a quick example of this.
So we have the C chord
Which now we call the first form remember that keep it keep an eye on that
Now we have the root note right here.
That's a C note _ _
So now if [A] we took the second form which looks like this in the back your head you should be thinking a
And [B] we wanted to move that one up a whole step.
Well, you would take this straight line and just
Slide it up two frets like that
But remember what we have to do we have to fret those open strings two frets higher as well in this case
So I'm gonna take my first finger just laid flat across
_ Now it's a B chord using the second form if I move that all up one [C] fret
Now it's a C chord using the second form
Now we're back to C again.
Remember we talked about that with the first form.
Well, check this out
Notice where my first finger is.
It's right here on this fifth string third fret.
That's the root note C
Well when I'm here, I have to use this shape for it to be a C major chord
So you could say once again, we're playing a C major using the second form
But now if I want to play C major using the first form I have to go like this
It's _ nice that that's an open chord shape
_ So both chords are C major chords
But this one is the first form and this one is the second form
By the way, a lot of you guys will play the second form bar chord like this
If you don't quite know all your bar chords or even your notes going up the neck you can check out the website
We talked about that.
It's a very important part of this whole process.
So after the second form
You're going okay.
What's the third form?
It's the G shape remember if you spell caged G is the third letter.
So G is the [G] third form
Like that [A] so we need to do now is move that up until we get to a C note
This can be a little bit crazy because watch this you notice the shape right here.
This is like the modern G shape
I'm gonna do the old-fashioned G shape with just three fingers and
Notice there's a fret here and then it's the nut Okay
So that's important because these are the open strings right behind the nut if you move this forward one
These have to follow move forward.
These have to follow just like a capo would okay
We still have that fret gap in between
So what a lot of people freak out about is if you want to do this with one hand you have to recreate the G
Shape with your other three fingers and lay your first finger flat across like this
It's a bummer of a chord shape like that
So a lot of people just play partial third form when they try to do a bar chord
They'll they do this either do this or this or they'll do something like that
But either way, it's a bummer to have to do this
It's easy to [Abm] solo within that shape, but not to play the actual full chord.
So don't worry
We don't have to do this for very long.
Okay, so if we start back here, it's open G just with different fingers
Using the third form then we slide up two frets and we have to bar across like that
That's gonna be a major using the third form
Move it up two more frets.
Now.
We have B major
Using the third form and then if we move up one more fret to the eighth fret with our ring finger now, that's C major
Using the third form see how it's right here
Keep track of this first finger laying flat across.
Okay, this is really important of how it connects to the second form
[C] So if I move back now to the second form in C major there it is right here again
so that's the connection point between those two boom and
Boom, just like that.
So let me paste the first three together.
Now.
We have the first form in C major
We have the second form in C major.
I'm gonna do it this way
And we have the third form in C major
They're all C major.
Isn't that crazy?
And they like I said, they're glued together because they have connection points
Which are very important.
So if eventually you learn where the starting and stopping points are for each chord, you can play scales with them
I'll just do major pentatonic for today.
_ That's the first form major pentatonic second [Am] form
[C] third form
_ _ Third form has two easy octaves you can jump to so that's why I did that twice on that one
And then you would go to the fourth form in the fifth form
So I'll just do those quickly because we kind of explained the other ones
I just want to run through this since this is just a demonstration.
So now this is the fourth form
Here's the major pentatonic here
There's _ _ two of those as well.
And then the weird fifth form that looks like a D shape
It's found way up there the connection points really just here, but watch [E] this
[C] So _ _ _ _ that's the major pentatonic in the fifth form
After the fifth form, we're back to the first form
But now we're gonna be doing it as a bar chord versus an open chord
So it's nice it goes from C to A to G E and then D shapes and then back to C and it repeats
so
That's how really good guitar players can see the entire neck and play whatever they want
Let's say we're playing in C major and I just want to play a C major pentatonic and I just want to jump around the neck
And have fun.
Well, I can pick any one of those forms
I'll just pick the third form and be right here because I know the shape
That's C major using the chord shape I know where the starting and stopping points are for that where the C's are
_ And I know the scales from one C to the next so I can do major
[G] _ [C] That's diatonic
_ Pentatonic _ that's really good for like Hendrix II stuff
_ _ [Em] _ [Dm] _
[C] _ Doobie Brothers all that kind of stuff.
We also have minor scales.
When you get better you'll be able to do that as [Cm] well
[C] _ So it's pretty amazing once you do connect the whole neck and know some scale formulas what you could do
You're basically free to roam around the entire neck once you get to that point
So we're just about to shoot all of these forms on the website today
so it's gonna be a long day long night and
Probably 12 hours of editing
But it's gonna be worth it in the end when everybody understands the cage system and they could just solo and feel confident
That's my goal for everybody.
Remember.
It's not always about just soloing either
It's about connecting chords as well having new options when it comes to moving around the neck
and then you guys are gonna be able to feel more free on the guitar and
Those of you who just knew your open chord shapes and maybe a few bar chords are gonna be able to fill in those missing
Pieces now and do the entire neck.
So that's my goal for everybody.
So, okay
I hope that helped you guys sort of understand the cage system a little bit better
I know there's a little bit of confusion on my last video because I just kind of got it out there quick
But we're gonna replace it with this video
Which is a little more in-depth for you guys
And maybe you even got a few
Pointers out of this video that you can go ahead and already use without even having to visit the site
But feel free to check out our site
We got a lot of stuff coming up and a lot of lessons already down.
So we'll