The Truth About the CAGED System 

Although I've been applying this system for years now, I still enjoyed the video :) great job, buddy! I'm going to share it with a friend because you've done a better job of explaining it than I do lol

I knew this stuff, but thank you, because I now know a way to use the G shape musically.

Everything you discuss is fine by me! Thank you, great lesson!

Paul Davids this is the first time the caged system actually makes sense. You made it so easy. Thank you Paul :)

@Paul Davids Would you considere make a video of this series explaining the concept of "key" and "root". Why a musical piece or a secuence of notes and chords is in a given "key"? Can a musical piece or secuence of notes/chords be in more then one at the same time? How ambiguous or not is this concept?. Also would be nice to know how to recognize a key. Thank you. As always great videos and grrat teaching.

He talks on behalf of many of us. Great channel, great Bloke, great player!

Couldn't agree more. This guy is such a great teacher, and an even better player! Thanks PD!

I forgot about the "watch later" option! Now I have no excuse not to clean out the garage.

'respectful personality' until the neighbours start ... hehehe

You have that kind of positivity in your own tutorials!! Keep up!

It CAGES the things that lock your guitar.

@@GnomeChomsky9999great comment

3 notes still better. Richard Lloyd Alchemists guitarists. 3 patterns rule the neck whole whole. Half whole wholehalf. The modes

@@bobravenscraft5376 bob, what are you on about?

@@bobravenscraft5376 had a stroke reading this bob

"Wie de **** is daar aan het timmeren?" 😂😂😂

@@joerikockelberg Who is hammering there?

Anthony Lazaro go to Synyster Gates school and chek it out.

Try the Stitch Method

Totally agree !!!!!!!

There's always this same comment on every channel that does a video of a CAGED explanation lol

Lol..

I second this lol

I actually discovered caged entirely by accident a bit before I learned what it was called. I wish my guitar teacher taught us this in high school 11 years ago.

FoulMountainLanguage hahahaha

I loved Bob Ross when I had insomnia. "We're going to put a happy little tree right here."

I genuinely relax when watching this guy's videos. Best youtube find in a while.

Perfect analogy. I couldn't put my finger on it before, but that's it right there.

More like the pewdiepie

Did you learn it?

1 year later your probably still learning the rhcp riff

Right? Totally with you man. I started watching his music theory series, first time things were clear to me. He's an amazing teacher.

Ditto

Dude honestly my mind is going crazy rn holy crap💀

Much too simplistic. I kind of get the feeling he doesn't really think much of it. As he said... must cover CAGED to be a teacher on RU-vid. I really enjoy him very much don't get me wrong. Go to Stich or Cody if you want to really learn it. You will NOT learn it in a day.

CHEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

this comment actually sorta gave me another aaaah haaaa moment... thanx

Ahh, now THIS comment makes complete sense, thanks🤔😎

except that the G shape also has a root on the 3rd and 1st strings, the C also the 2nd string, the E also 6th and 1st, the A the 5th and D also on the 4th...

@@chr15tree The root can be found on every string in 2 places. But that's not the point. The point is where do you want to be playing that chord on the fretboard at a particular time? Low? Medium? Or high? You find where the nearest root note is, determine what string it's on and then that determines the shape. Watch good players. They aren't like John Lennon, playing bar chords jumping up and down the neck. They stay in one position and play shapes, using the root notes in the same vicinity.

@@theartfuldodger935 I think I just had an epiphany...first, thanks for your observation. I didn't realize that about "good players" playing chords in the same vicinity. I imagine that's to optimize movements or is that for voicing? Either way, I've been trying to figure out the relationship between chord shapes and pentatonic shapes. Your comment made me think that the chord shapes and the pentatonic scale shapes overlap one another in a way I hadn't thought of (I'm teaching myself how to play).... is it true that if I use a given chord shape to play a chord, that the same pentatonic shape surrounding that chord shape is the corresponding pentatonic scale? E.g. if I use the E shape to play an A chord, then the E shaped pentatonic scale is the scale around that A chord... or am I confused?

It was a really nice touch!

Boring... I'm german and regularly visit Holland. Neither curses in a cool way :)

Florian Ju Boring? I’m not german, but was there for a couple of years. What about „Klappe, ihr Warmduscher!” Or „hast du etwa nicht alle Tassen im Schrank, du alter Spinner?“ or „hör auf mit dem Krach, du Schwiegermutterrechtgeber, du!“

Korkenknopfus :D "Schwiegermutterrechtgeber" ??? Muahahahaha danke, made my day ! Aber das hat alles nix mit wirklichem Fluchen zu tun, das ist nur Schimpfen und eben die deutsche Sprache ;) where do you come from?

Florian Ju Ach so, dann habe ich ein paar schöne Sachen gelernt, aber muss gestehen dass die Leute da ganz sauber reden, was zumindest für mich eine Erholung war, endlich eine Unterhaltung zu haben, ohne ständiges Fluchen zu hören. Ich bin Chilene.

I never knew that was what this was called (self-taught). But I learned a couple things from this video I'll be practicing.

Stop making me shy!

Yes, I wished we had have him as teacher in my school Era, but I guess he wasn't born at this time :D Hope that I have enough time to catch up...

He cute. no homo

YEEEESSS

This guy is amazing. And that fucking beard. Love.

Look at Adam Neely's videos as well. He also has some great advice and lessons. His music theory vids are amazing. Keep playing brother! :)

Exactly!

@@crouchjump5787 Search the Your Guitar Academy channel and "unlocking major CAGED" It explains perfectly what he is saying!

I just commented the same thing..

I play guitar clarinet and piano and I don't bother my neighbors. Don't bother your neighbors. Get some head phones.

I'm sorry he's still in apartment hell. I did many years of that. Very glad to have my own place. I will celebrate when he gets his own chalet...or something.

@@lancethrustworthy in Europe it's not unusual to live in appartments. Single houses are the rarity in cities.

They were just trying to offer some percussion.

My neighbor will get angry with me if I stop playing

Absolutely agree, the fallacy of people being good at something automatically being good at teaching it has wound me up forever! Teaching is a totally separate skill and luckily for us Paul has both!

Same here!

Me too!

Loved it 😅

sounds like a jojo's reference to me.

Its working against me ohwoah gravity, wants to bring me down

@@lachlanbruni8339 My favorite part is that all the lyrics of gravity are about self-sabotage, in addition to Mayer's song My Stupid Mouth early in his career where the chorus is "my stupid mouth got me in trouble, I said too much again". Then he goes crazy in 2011 or whatever and has all those insane interviews that get him cancelled for a few years... it just feels like John Mayer's career is a TV show with really good writers that know how to foreshadow well. Gotta love him.

The CAGED system or the bleeped out swearing in Dutch?

Yes right that's true respect I do the same

Is that how that works?

I never knew that's how it works. I'm gonna stsrt doing that

Mine didn't "click," just exploded. I came to the comments to see if I was alone. But I'm a complete newbie, and drinking from a fire hydrant right now.

Totally. Played for 30 years bar chords and all, even some intuitive leaps... but KNOWING the next form just like that... I feel dumb for blowing it off all these years. Someone just needed to say, "Contemplate WHY the G bar chord is E shaped, it matters." I even knew about the D shape on the 5th fret and it didn't click.

Always Coffee

Agreed Paul

I love that part 😂

Lol 😆

I'm a coffee junky, I'm in a nursing home with Emphasema and I feel fine. I'm at peace, quit cigarettes 10 months ago and I bought a Fender Squier Affinity SSS and a Fender Mustang Lt25 modeling amp which is AWESOME. So I'm fortunate to be here and I have the cafeteria send 2 cups coffee on my trays and the nursing assistants get me more if I need it. Paul said coffee first and reminded me I've been so busy screwing around on my tablet I forgot to drink coffee. I always have joked with my friends I like it strong and black, the way I like my women...ok back to the video.

Thank you. 😊

Got lost on the coffee part

Luc Verhoeven and in English?

Jesse Terpstra It'd translate to English as: Goddamnit, who the fuck is building there.

Paardenlul. Merrigan's maaar taught me that.

"godverdomme wie de fuck is er aan het timmeren"

Jij ben a schande vor je zoort. Picked up a little Dutch in my day. Had wondered if Paul was Dutch. Now I know. Great vids Paul. My Dutch sentence was by no means directed at anyone. Just trying to share knowledge with my fellow guitar brethren. You never know when you might need it.

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