The CAGED System In Under 10 Minutes 

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I have been recommended so many different videos about the CAGED System but none of them have been able to make it click in my head like this one. I love the relaxed style as well, keep up the good work!! ;D

I never leave comments.....but wanted to say THANK YOU for the best and easiest to understand CAGED lesson. I tip my cap to you sir

this video has taught me more in 10 minutes than I have tried to learn myself in 20 years. unbelievable!!

Mind blown! I've avoided learning the guitar my whole life, thinking it would be too complicated. At 57, I finally buckled under the pressure & bought one last Xmas. Little did I know the whole bloody instrument is set up so you only have to remember a few patterns & shapes. And I look back at the decades I wasted playing wind instruments...

Very nice instruction on the CAGED system. I believe someone commented earlier about the relaxed teaching style in a favorable way. I totally agree. I'm an older guy who has played guitar for a long time and I know how challenging learning it can be. Learning from a teacher (any subject) who is calm, confident and pleasant (like this) helps a lot!! Great job!

jeez markiplier really knows how to play guitar

I always call the nut the invisible finger (when playing open chords) that is holding down all the strings and as you move it you have to replace it. Seemed to work better with my students then some of the other examples.

You are a great teacher! I can't believe that no one has ever mentioned the caged system to me before, as I have been playing the guitar for several years now. Thanks (:

One of the best RU-vid guitar teachers out there. Really likable, clear and concise.

Finally nailed myself to the chair and paid attention.This was the clearest and most accessible lesson on this. Great lesson! Thanks!

Mike yours are some of the best lessons on RU-vid. I've been playing since I was 12 and I learn something every time I tune in to you. Thank you for what you do my friend.

More like”The Art of Teaching Guitar” you’re the freaking man! Love your passion and delivery of lessons. I’m actually a bassist but I have been really into your videos lately and it’s made me more cognizant of some things I’ve been sloppy with in the past. Please keep these coming!

Its 2019 & your still saving Lives, Just understood the so called CAGED & Pentatonic scale in just a flush. Wow ... Fantastic video. Kudos!

Every now and again a good teacher comes along with great theory knowledge easy listening voice and a patient approach. Loved it.

Best lesson of CAGED system ever! I’ve watched countless lesson of this on youtube and it only confused me to the point of giving up. Yours is the best and it’s only under 10 mins. Subbed!

Excellent vid bro hit it on the head keep making these types super relaxed and informative vids sometimes people get stuck and need just a little push to get recreative. Thanks

This is my first exposure to CAGED, and it's freaking amazing! Your explanation is crystal clear.

Congratulations on the 1 million views! Well-deserved as you are one of the best guitar teachers here in RU-vid.

Love your videos so far man. You have a very easy listening voice which is very relaxing and the content is well structured.

Thanks for your time on this had some other down loaded stuff but you put it in a very simple way Cheers

This is the most helpful guitar lesson I've ever come across on RU-vid. Thank you so much, kind sir!

What a great lesson, thank you! I've been playing guitar about 10 years and bass about 25 years and still picked up a lot of neat tips here. Best CAGED explanation I've come across. Awesome stuff!

Dude keep it up, ive seen some of your videos on stuff i cant grasp and i always learn it when watching your videos. Youre great at explaining!

Well explained! 🙏 I’ve watched a few people try explain this, just wasn’t able to fully grasp it the way they explained it.. this has helped heaps. Thank you

I have never found someone so good on teaching guitar like you man. Congrats!

your explanation of the Game to learn the notes on each string, like find all C's on each sting. And repeat. You broke this daunting task down to something i can relate to for my practices. And you kept reminding me of what the open strings are. There is so much for a beginner. Some teachers go really fast and forget that they already know this. Thanks for your patience and insight. I subscribed. Hoping I have found someone who I can learn. A beginner. .Found myself zeroing in on theory as I could tell I needed to know where notes are to play intuitively. You are the man.

I had tried to understand the CAGED concept before but never really got it until this video. The instruction was perfectly clear and concise and all of a sudden CAGED clicked for me. I watched three other videos on CAGED after this one and none of them did anywhere near as good a job. I only understood them because I'd watched this one. Great teaching.

I been searching high and low for a good explanation of CAGED and yours is by far the best. Thanks so much bro I really appreciate it. Well done friend

Checked out a few of your vids lately and subscribed just now. I needed this. Been playing hard five years but covers. Fun ones like Brownstone, 25 or 6 to 4 etc. I copy but don't understand if that makes sense. I joined an original band and need to know the neck for leads. I'm going to study this thoroughly and I think you do a good job. Thank you. Enjoy the day, and nice made up word there :D

Great explanation, concise and thorough.

I tried other videos explaining theCAGED system, so far this is the easiest to understand. Thank you so much. Subscribed.

Easily the best guitar tutor I have seen on RU-vid so far, keep it up man you explained that perfectly and simply

Best CAGED lesson I've seen! I didn't realize they actually went in that order. C-A-G-E-D. Never thought about the order since I never used G and C in the beginning. I thought they just made a word out of the chords so you could easily remember them. This is HUGE!! The order is everything to finding the shapes quickly and to see how scales lay on top. Great job!!!

This is the best explanation of the caged system I've seen . Thank you for posting it ;)

Thank you so much! I’ve been learning the guitar on youtube on/off for the past 10+ years. Now that I am able to play basic chords confidently I wanted to challenge myself. Thanks for making this so clear! This would be frustrating otherwise, but your calm voice and pace of teaching is awesome 👏🏼

I watched a few vids related to the CAGED system and read about it but this vid was the clearest... and most concise. Well done! You have a new subscriber.

THE ONE AND ONLY VIDEO ONLINE THAT MAKES THIS UNDERSTANDABLE!!

Wow. I never expected to be so challenged by this instrument. I have a lot of work to do. Let's save it for tomorrow hfadjf;k

Im sitting at 1:00am in quarantine watching this and ot clicked. Ive been waiting for a good explanation of the caged system for so long and you just gave it to me. Thank you so much, my guitar playing has changed for the better :)

Great job, man! I have a masters in music Ed and have been teaching 27 years. Very thorough and informative.

am i the only one who gets it, but at the same time, i dont really get it

Hoooooooooly crap... it just clicked at the 4 minute mark and I see where this is going. This is some next level stuff

That was awesome. I've never seen anybody describe the caged system so well. I'm glad I found your videos. Thank you.

thanks coach you rock. You were the first RU-vid video I seriously watched when I got my first real guitar and decided it’s something I really want to learn about 2 months ago. I love how right off the back you were honest and said if u don’t know all your chords learn those first I really appreciate that cause I have no problem with trying to master the basics first and yeah You just rock man. Gonna go watch some of your chord lessons I know a lot but def nowhere near intermediate level yet #beginnergang

2:20 - I'M OUT! 3:40 - It's Witchcraft. My fingers don't work that way. 5:24 - Are you an alien? 7:18 - That's just a wrong F. You cheated. 7:29 - ok, I might be able to handle that one. Except I still can't do a D in time.... Ok, Ok, all kidding aside, this is a really great lesson. You laid it out in such an easy to understand way. Great content. Definitely worth the sub.

5 years later still the best caged lesson on RU-vid. I did get a little lost when he jumped right over to pentatonics, but heading to look for his videos on that.

Finally after been shown a few times it makes sense! Great approach to the teaching, very calm and easy to understand. Thank you!

It is one thing to have ability and knowledge, and another thing entirely to be able to explain and convey it - and you do that really well. And in a relaxed way with no distraction like so many with "rawk dood" fluffing his hair around or using some ridiculous processed sound or just showing off. Nicely done!

This is actually the best explanation of the CAGED System that I have found! Most other videos never really made sense to me.Thanks!

Your video on the CAGED system showed me with how different chord voicings are connected. It clicked for me. Thank you! I really dislike commenters who think this is so easy or believe if you only do this, that and the other you're good to go. Guitar is a process and I believe the different approaches to teaching guitar benefit everyone because we all learn differently and are at different stages of proficiency. It does not help any of us to criticise the approach used. Keep up the good work. This is the first video I've seen of yours and I'm subscribing now. -D.

Mike, I've been wrestling with this for ages. Theory has been to be shown to me in so many different forms for years, and just finally has been explained clearly (Of course you'll get 20 more views from me re-reviwing this) Your video makes connecting the dots so much of an easier path. ...Also thank you for the choice placement of plugs saying "We cover this more" instead of Pimping your site the first 2 minutes, and instead getting to business at hand!! Your delivery and lessons are clear and short, but not rushed. GREAT TEACHER!!! I'm a bass player I've been fortunate to be playing with some pretty heavy cats lately, making me want to step my game up. I've never been much of a soloist, I'm a Root/ V guy... singers LOVE me... So I went and bought myself a nice Tele, and have been focusing on a little guitar. I'm an old head banger that makes a living playing country music so its Michael Schenker and Brent Mason inspiring me currently... This was like turning of fog lights!!! Thank you I will surely recommend!!! Off to check the site now. Thanks a Million!!!

I've known that I would have to grasp this to get to the next level of my playing but there aren't a whole lot of good vids on it. Thanks for the introduction bro you helped it make sense to me.

See when I first learned about barre chords, I was taught to think of my first finger like a capo, and to use my other fingers to make the open shapes im used to. Never knew that it was called CAGED, but it's definitely helped a ton. Now I need to practice my scales and modes from those positions. My rhythm skills are fine but my improv lead skills are severely lacking

I’m absolutely mind blown, I’ve just started a couple months ago and I’ve learned all the major and minor chords, but was really afraid to explore the fretboard, this was one of those lightbulb moments for me, thank you! Love how you teach as well, I wish I could be your student

You’re the only person so far that’s made a lick of sense with these scales that I’ve been watching. Thankyou!

Man, this was very informative. I'm a professional trumpet player who hurt himself badly nearly a year ago. 7 months ago i started teaching myself guitar. It's been a blast by ear but I need to check my work on occasion. This was clutch. Thank you!

After watching other videos I used to think "what this CAGED system really is!" But while watching your video it was like "man this is so simple". Thankyou sir! You deserve millions of subscribers.

Very clearly explained Mike ......... Have you thought about on doing a signature style on Blackmore ? Thanks for the great channel.

So I have been so stuck with my guitar, like I haven't been improving and stuck at the same level. I thought let's get this so called CAGED system done; and I have been through so many videos- none of them made sense until I found this. Loved the ease with which you explained everything like throwing out the vibe that it ain't that tough. Appreciate your work, thanks a ton!

I just started learning how to play the guitar, and I must say imo you did the best job explaining the CAGED system. My mind was blown within the first 3 minutes and I was going "So that's how it works!!"

Before I saw this I knew that the caged system was just how to play the same chords but in different positions but now I know that they connect and you can find those shapes were it's all say c notes in the chord wich is nice since I recently learned the major scale all throughout the fretboard so I will see how I can further connect all these things because everything connects!! Thx.

The great thing about the guitar, unlike most instruments, is that there are many ways to play the same chord or scale. not so on the piano, the trumpet etc.

Very helpful video. Thanks. And thank you for not flipping the neck/dot diagram upside down and backwards. Those immediately warp my mind.

I would like to say, after certain online courses I have purchased and other videos I have come across. You are the only one that helped me finally grasp the idea of the caged system. It was very well explained and I finally understand how it works. Thank you!

It's a very good introduction to the caged system, When they teached me, instantly ended up with scaling up and down. Eventually I have learned the neck in a different way, though that's me. I started improvising over simple chord progressions, not jazz I'm into know, but for example C, Dm G with 60 bpm) . I just recorded these to my smarty. Impro become part of my daily regime, enjoyed it, and in a couple of weeks the notes just burned into my head. I used only one scale at a time, and I instantly heard if I went outside the scale. This is justa fun method though the primary goal was not memorize the entire neck.

Me: “I’m about to learn the caged system 😌this about to be a breeeeze” Bar chords: In your dreams 😅

This is a great video, mike. Thanks for going straight to the point in little time

Fantastic Tutorial! Precise and to the Point, Very informative, Your Explanations Helped Significantly! Thanks a lot for such Clarity! I understand this Concept Finally!

You got a Bob Ross vibe goin' on. I felt like when I first started playing again watching this. Probably cuz I never fully understood this concept lol. Great vid.

I JUST found this. Im a pretty good drummer... and a crappy guitar player lol.. but I want to get better but never put in the time. Ive always known about the CAGED system. Mike in this vid does a fantastic job with the "jump" point.

This was incredibly helpful and informative. I've seen a couple videos on the CAGED system but this really made me understand it. Thank you so much.

I have been playing for so many years and this is the first time caged has made any sense to me. Thank you. I just subbed your channel

i really love Devin Booker, and now he's teaching guitar lessons. anyway, this video is very helpful! thanks

Omg!!! Thank you for this video! I’m a pianist learning guitar and I’ve been trying to flip inversions - the way I can on the keys - but was stuck on E barres and A barres. Thanks!

Awesome video. People wanting to learn CAGED, would be lucky to have this be the first lesson they watched. Glad I found your channel.

This is my first time hearing about and learning the caged system. This is a really cool tool thanks

Interesting.. I taught myself this when I was first starting, but I never knew it was a thing really.. Pretty cool. Never really use the G or 3rd form tho

Forty years ago we just called them cord inversions. Nice explanation though with a catchy anagram. Helps with memorizing.

Once again: your explanations are killer. I had two big and loud “clicks” today from this and your video about modes. Nice overall attitude as well. Thank you!

That was AWESOME. Been trying to get this whole CAGED system down for a while but this totally made it click. Thanks a ton dude. ROCK ON!!

my head is spinning and i'm drooling x.x

I would call that "how to play guitar" big thax mate

Thanks for this! I've seen a few videos on the caged system before, and It always seemed like a complicated system, and that I needed to know more music theory before I could make use of it, so I'd move on. But before you even started on the second form, it all clicked. I already knew you could make a barre chord out of any open chord, but putting that into a system like this really helps to understand it. So thanks again, and keep up the good work! :)

thank you so much for this!! im going to watch it again in a bit with my guitar so i can play along and practice , this was awesome

Me 3 years later... why couldn’t this have been recommended to me sooner!!!

Ashamed: I've been playing a long time and never learned this! New, old and in between players: LEARN THIS!!!

Really APPRECIATED your video. You're always so calm and full of great information.

Finally.. Now this I get.Thank you for explaining and teaching in a way that is understandable.I have been having a hard time . Gonna subscribe.

Really great lesson: made completely intelligble what I had previously found mystifying. Thank-you.

1:35 Sounds like the intro to Man On The Moon. R.E.M.

I just bought my first guitar earlier this year, and this really helps bring things together. Great instruction right here... thank you.

I'm an old ex professional Detroit blues/funk guitar player and although I knew pieces of this I never really connected it all together until THIS great explanation! Thank you!!!

@The-Art-Of-Guitar Do you have any videos by chance on how to make your improvisation skills on guitar better? I want to be able to learn how to be creative and melodic when it comes to soloing across the fretboard as well as being able to play fast. Also, do you have any videos of your students playing guitar after they learned from you?

For any of you who have practiced guitar, and feel like you have gotten nowhere, I would just like to give you my experience with this. First you must burn to get those calluses, but after you have practiced and still felt like you can't move your fingers to the right chords without having to pause, this is what happened to me. I was ready to give it up, but one day I decided to give it another go, before I lost the hardening of my fingers and see if I could remember all that was taught. To my surprise, my fingers very easily went from note to note. I was playing dust in the wind, and hotel california. This used to be a challenge, but without thinking, it just came to me! From there I went on to play some Wasp songs, and now I'm using a 12 and 6 string guitars. Just hang in there, and I promise, it will one day just happen! After this, playing became therapy, and was able to write my own music! I never used a pick, and so I don't think I can really get into that habit at this point. For me, Andres Segovia was my inspiration, and I started off with a classical, which is much easier on your finger tips! Even after switching to an acoustic, it hurt once again, but it was bearable! No blue fingers burning, but there was still a little pain. Then electric was once again a bit of a challenge on my fingers. They are much thicker strings! Once you learn to play on any of them, you can easily go from one to the other and rock out!

Great and easy to understand lesson. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

Your channel is a godsend. Thank you for all of your efforts.

You confused me more than helped me, ha ha But I do see the great advantage of understanding the finger placement on the entire fretboard! Thank you so much! I am 62 years old and have played guitar on and off (never serious) only jamming, but I recently have a desire to learn it right? Near the end of my life span but learning is always fun!

Explained very well

You are such an excellent guitar teacher. I have paid a professional teacher to learn guitar but I have learned more on my own and also from watching you. thank God for you brother. Keep up the fantastic work.