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.

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 😭

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!

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

Finally someone who explains this correctly !!

Best ever CAGED explanation with easily understandable graphics. 😇

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

ive been playing on and off for 20years and this is the first time this has been explained in such a great way that im actually learning something new again.... thanks so much!

I've been playing for 10 years and never learned theory. This is a great way to ease myself into it.

Over ten years of playing guitar….you guys unlocked this in 45 seconds. Unreal. Thank you so much

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

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.

omg i have watched that many videos trying to get my head around the caged system and you made it so freaken easy to understand. you rock

I gave up learning from YT after watching over 100s of videos and getting hella confused and fustrated. This video was all I needed from start. Thank you so much. I'll be picking up my guitar and waiting for more of this stuff.

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.

Dear Pickup, I've been playing for 40 ye2, self-taught, but I've never understood the caged system. Your lesson here is THE simplest explanation I've ever seen. Thank you so much. Peace and love from Hong Kong 👌🙏😎✌️❤️

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

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've watched plenty of videos explaining CAGED system but I must say this is like the easiest one! It really helped me a lot visualizing all these notes, I really appreciate it!

finallyyyy, after all these years of trying to just basically understand this to get my foot in the door, this video appears like a gift from the heavens. Explanation and visualization provided.

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 🎸

Insanely good and concise video! Never had caged explained so simply and so practically and also so quickly. The visuals are on point! Thank you so so so much!

OMG, IVE GOT IT. Played woodwinds since I was a kid. No chords to deal with but I understand theory. You just opened up the KB for me. After many false alarms this is the lesson that rang the bell ! Cord shapes and Root notes. It all makes sense now. Bonus, I learned a lot about proper fingering. Thank you Dr.

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.

I learned CAGED from an old book more than 3 decades ago, it opened the whole fretboard for me, soloing impromptu over any key became so easy.

This explanation is fantastic. Thank you. Simple and understandable with only one viewing of the lesson

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

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.

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

I learned more in the first 45 seconds her than in any of the many other videos I have watched on this. Excellent work!

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

The most concise and helpful lesson. Brilliant work.

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! 🙂

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.

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

Great advice from a great Lady! Nobody explained it that simple! Keep on your good work!

Visualization is so important for many people. I think I learned to play guitar using patterns first then applied names ( C chord, E chord etc….). I like your use of visualization.

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!

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

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.

12 years I been trying to make heads or tails I had the idea but i wasn’t able to visualize it and apply it until this video Great job Thank you

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!

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

This is brilliant. Really opens up the neck

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

Really helped me see how the shapes connect with the POV of the fretboard. Well done, Thank you.

This is the best video on this subject that I’ve seen! It finally makes sense! Thank you so much for this 🙏🏻

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

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

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'.

You clear things up and explain them very well ! Thanks for this video.

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

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

This is by far one of the best lessons on the CAGED system ever! And I’m sorry I had to go here, but you are gorgeous 🤦‍♂️ why do I feel bad saying that?

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

Brilliant way of explaining. Thanks and Kudos!

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

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

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

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.

The way you explained this blew my mind

Finally after all these years been self taugh, t somebody explains it properly so it can be undsrstood ❤

I love how demonstrating this on a P90 Albert Lee, incredible taste there :)

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.

Great and clear CAGED lesson more lessons expectations and great blessings to your commitment

Oh-yeah! The best video about CAGED I ever watched.

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

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.

Best caged explanation ever, with excellent visuals 🤙🏼

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

I love caged .the best thing about it for me was the many triads and arpeggios from each shape.i know the fretboard notes so much better also

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

Man you're a fantastic teacher molly 🌻🙏 wow I get it now thanks 👍

Great tutorial. Excellent teacher.

Appreciate the fingernail polish choices to make it easier to see (for instance only one is dark blue, but then later on light blue because it's not needed anymore.)

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

This was an amazing tutorial. Wow. Guitar is not my main focus at the moment but if it becomes so I will be opening up my wallet for this immediately. Great job

I love Molly Miller, she is a gem

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

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

I think this is the best explanation I have ever seen. One the pretty lady gets your attention and the next is the perfect teaching method by the lady. Thanks a lot.

This is blowing my mind

Thanks for the explanation!!!❤

dude the 3 humbucker set up kinda floored me

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

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

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 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️😜✌️👍🏼🤘🏼

The Doctor is a Queen.

This is an outstanding video. Thank you