How CAGED opens up your fretboard - Dr. Molly Miller | Pickup Music 

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Finally someone who uses the correct camera angle for looking at the guitar neck

This is the best explanation of caged that I have seen. Well done.

The first 50 seconds already helped me understand caged so much better than all the other times I've touched on it.

the first 30 seconds of this video made me understand the concept entirely, outrageously good lesson. TOP NOTCH

THIS?! THIS IS THE CAGED SYSTEM THAT KEEPS POPPING UP ON MY RU-vid ALL THESE YEARS?! 😱 Been doing this forever. Didn't know it was the GAGED system. Good to know. Thanks!

Good Lord. I’ve taken online lessons (Tim Pierce/Paul Davids) and while I still love them, I got more out of the first 3 1/2 mins of this on understanding CAGED than my previous 35 years of playing 😭

Best ever CAGED explanation with easily understandable graphics. 😇

Took her CAGED course awhile back. Really really good! Very approachable and made learning it really easy.

Yes ! Excellent Demo. Luv Her Confidence, Color Cordination On The Fretboard And Fingernail Polish. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🙂. Thank You ! 💞

This course alone changed my guitar playing and elevated to a point where I can confidently say "I can play guitar" and not just strum a few chords. Thank you, Molly. From the bottom of my heart.

Been playing for 40+ years, mostly self taught. I've heard of the CAGED system so I thought I'd see what it was. It's just a catchy name for 'You still gotta memorize the fretboard, Padwan'.

the best, most comprehensive tutorial i've seen on the topic, amazing, congrats and thank you!! :))

I've been playing for 14 years now and keep trying to break through to music theory and understanding the neck more, this video helped a lot thanks!

I'm a slow learner. I always have to put in double the effort inorder to learn anything. Because of this I lose confidence, get frustrated and many times say f**k it all. Mollies way of explaining and showing things has given me confidence. For once I'm starting to feel like I can do this.

I have to agree with everyone else, I been learning just over a year, and know the CAGED system is important, but have not seen anyone else actually explain so clearly how it works and how it can be used - Thanks very much

I’ve heard “CAGED” a million times, and understood what it meant - but I didn’t realize why the letters were in that order, and that they all connect! That opening diagram makes so much sense! I had memorized a few of the boxes for soloing in only a few keys, but this is very helpful.

Best explanation I have seen in studying CAGED for three years! Thanks!

I really like this presentation; simple, professional, and clear.

Best explanation of CAGED I have seen here on the tube and finally understand it!

Dr Molly is such an incredible teacher. This summary is OUTSTANDING. Well done Dr. Molly.

Best part of this is all the time/space Molly leaves between shapes that you have to count! One of the best things to learn early is that space is as or more important than what you play and she explains the CAGED system so well while teaching that too! 🙂

Been playing the guitar for 12 years, first time I actually understood caged. Kudos.

Shocked by her easy approach / explaination! So great class!

The explanation is very clear. When the guitarist has understood this mechanism well, he can begin to develop the ability to improvise in any style. You are a good teacher 🎸

The most concise and helpful lesson. Brilliant work.

I have been working on the CAGED system for a few months now and this video has really helped me understand it so much better! Thank you for sharing!

The way you explained this blew my mind

I"ve watched dozens of videos on the CAGED system. Maybe I've heard it enough that it's starting to make sense, but this is the best by far.

Excellent! It’s the clearest and most visual tutorial I found on caged system. Thank you very much 👍🙂

I already pay for several guitar courses, but, I love how well this is done and how clear she is in explaining. I think I might need to sign up for awhile.

Thanks for a good caged visualization how they are connected in the guitar fretboard.

This was done very well! She even changed her fingernail colors to help visualize the exercises better. 😍👍

Don’t know why, I’m teaching guitar myself, but I never realised what 'CAGED' just stands for. Figured this system out myself over time but your explanation is so to the point, it took the first few seconds and I understood everything perfectly. Thanks big time!

i am going to try this with your lesson . you have made it the most clear to me so far.

I took lessons 10 years ago and they never explained what the caged system was. They weren't the best lessons. This is great. Thanks.

Thanks for explaining it very well.

Dr. Molly that was an excellent teaching about the CAGED system I invented. Please, let me explain. Before all the good guitar teaching was available on the internet I was struggling to figure out (on my own, no teacher or videos or books) how to play more than just the basic open chords I new. I knew about being able to use the E form to make other chords as I moved it along the neck. So it made me wonder if other chords were also 'moveable.' So, on my own, I discovered that the C, A, G and D chords were also moveable. I think the order in which I discovered them was E, A, D, C and G. I tried to think of a word those letters would spell so it would help me remember them and so I invented C-A-G-E-D. Now here is the funny part. I did not know this system already existed! So as far as I knew I was the only person in the world who knew it! It was like I had discovered the Grand Canyon thinking I was the only person who had ever seen it. I thought to myself - I have got to share this with the world! Of couse, later on I learned that it was nothing new. I was disappointed but in a way I did invent it - at least for myself! You might say I was a co-inventor of the CAGED system and the others did so unknown to me and before my time.

Can we talk about that sick custom Music Man Albert Lee MM90? 😍

Finally! Best explanation I’ve seen. Well-scripted and beautiful animations. 🤘🏻

Thanks a lot for this video! Most clear explanation I have ever seen on CAGED!

Thanks a lot. I see a lot of video on RU-vid but with this one I undestand everything :) thank you 👍👍👍

This is THE best instructional video EVER ! … helps me with my drive to practice

Amazing. Great place to start. This will help a lot of people.

100% THE best lesson on caged on the entire web! Im def trying the 14 days🎸🎶🔥

Just learn bass... you can transfer what you learn on the bass to the guitar and extend it. I started teaching my self bass September 2023, spent a lot of hours, and joined a semester on a music school to learn music theory and more about modes, and that helped me level up on guitar, even though i have parked my guitar 10 years before i recently bought 2 guitars and my level up happened some days ago, my teacher from the semester taught me some valuable music theory which was as if he gave me these keys to a lot of the boxes in my head that has been marked with question mark because i didn't understand the theory behind it until i learned it. Never read notes either, but now i can read basic notes too. The only scale/mode i knew on guitar before was blues scale and now i know dorian, ionian, locrian, pentatonic , mixolydian, bass, and 1 kinda advanced beepop scale that only works on shift and only if you time it right. :) This what you say in this video is probably a very good tool for alot of beginners, but i rather this to a beginner, in order to make it easier for your self, do the dry stuff first, print out a sheet of a neck, start with the E string, and learn where the notes are on the neck, and how B always right next to C, same goes for E always followed by F. In norway they dont have Bb, but they have H... this is so confusing so i stick to Bb and B and here is a fun fact Bsharp and C.... the same ptich, and that means its also the exact same tone, so for me, B sharp doesnt excist!

The first part of this video is a great explanation. I've seen a lot of CAGED videos because transitioning keys mid-improv has always been my single weakest thing as a guitarist. I'm getting better, but it's about 20 years too late lol

My nine-year-old daughter can somehow learn any instrument or any music concept with little effort. The only thing needed is interest. She’s been taking vocal lessons since she’s four and performing live as well. Somehow, she has no interest in her dad‘s main instrument, guitar. Having a strong female role model for young girls, like yourself, is so refreshing and inspiring that I set an Alexa reminder for “guitar lessons with dad” tomorrow with a reward of 30 minutes of Roblox or RU-vid. I’m going to print out a couple of chord shapes and…guitars in hand…watch your video. I’ll give her the remote, let her pause and ask questions, and see where it goes. Thank you for inspiring me. I wish there were beginner videos from someone like yourself pacifically aimed a young girls.

The Doctor is an exceptional educator: clear, thorough, succinct, and encouraging. Great. Plus, that MM is wicked. Just got a Cutlass though I won’t be playing it as well as does Dr. Molly. Still, makes me feel a bit less guilty with the purchase.

Great video. Really easy to follow. Thanks🙏🏾

Molly is the ultimate ripper! I’m your biggest fan 🧝🏻

I finally get it, your excellent graphics made it very clear.

Awesome job thank you!!

I loved this lesson. Thank you so much

This is a fantastic way to teach this! Perfect view!

Lovely! Outstanding! And approachable. This lesson just feels good. It’s like I don’t feel I got Beato up afterwards!

Great video Molly!!! YOU ROCK❤

Outstanding!

love the exercises!

I hope I get it now. This video is as clear as it can get. Thanks!

Gracias primera vez que entiendo este sistema. Muy buena explicación gráfica. Y eres muy Hermosa!

The best lesson ever

yeah! ty!

...well explained Molly, thankyou

Thank you so much

Great info on merging the shapes, thanks so much!

The beat and branding is really cool! Also the quality of the videos

This Doc rocks❤

The Doctor is a Queen.

Very helpful!

Best caged explanation ever, with excellent visuals 🤙🏼

I've never seen or noticed this about these chords. Great stuff

Nice explanation just like one on one session to remind the scale and chords didn’t went fast like other people on youtube explained very nicely.

this was very well explained.

I do play that “G shape” up the neck in real life. Just use your pinky for the root, bar 1 & 1/2 step down. ring finger plays 3 on the A string and middle finger can play 4 on the B string for the suspension if needed and then ring finger can come down to the D string to make “C/G shape” inversion. You can even just hammer both of those on from the “open” position (muting the B string in that case).

Great explanation! For anyone that is reading this, I am a professional guitar teacher and I think the CAGED system can be very effective for some people. However, in my years of teaching I found that my students benefit much more from the "five positions" system found in Barrett Tagliarino's book "Guitar Fretboard Workbook." Like anything, it is best to work through with a teacher that is already familiar with the "five positions" system.

first time I understand the caged system in less a minute, Kudo to you Dr. Molly Miller

Very useful and informative thanks!

Amazing teacher

That guitar is sick! Ima get one!

Wow this was a fantastic lesson!

Of all the CAGED system video courses I've watched, this is the best so far and gave me a better understand too!

this is pretty awesome! just curious what about learning this for other scales? eg. minor harmonic, melodic minor, diminished, is there other acronyms or such to utilize?

YOU JUST BLEW MY FREAKING MIND

Pretty good... cheers from Canada...

Nicely done 👍👍

Brilliant 🙏❤️

can you also tell which strings and frets to push because for me it's still to difficult to get them all

Dope !

The best! ✨

Know the root. I bet a lot of people like this video. Pretty good explanation. Simply put, know the root.

Thank u

Excellent vid! Is there something similar on understanding the patterns for the root notes of any scale?

Great explanation , excellent looking guitar

After hearing and thinking i understood the caged system for a decade ,why is this the first time i heard mention how the shapes and order create a C up the neck ? Lol …this makes it actually useful 😂 ..all these years wondering and she explained in the first 45 seconds what 100’s of other caged lessons never mention 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️😜✌️👍🏼🤘🏼

Excellent video. I already knew about the CAGED system but never really did any exercises with it to internalize the fretboard. Thanks... BTW, I got a little confused when the nail polish colour changed at 5:18. :-)

I get that these are all C chords going up the neck, but what if I want to play an F for example?

Excellent 👌🌹

People who insist to be addressed by the degree they studied. In that case I need to be adressed as Master Smith.😂

I need this for lefty