Triads and CAGED (are the same thing) 

The first 57 seconds of this guitar lesson is the best triad caged concept I’ve ever seen

And once again, the greatest guitar teacher on RU-vid drops more gold for us peasants -- eternally grateful, Eric!

Eric continues to be the finest guide on the Tube to melodic, intelligent, creative guitar playing. Kudos brother

I’m really glad I took your CAGED TrueFire course before I dive into triads. It made triads much easier to understand and use.

I learned CAGED first, but learning where all the triads are across and up the neck enabled me to see that the A shape is the G shape and the D shape is the C shape. Thanks for posting

0:53 Now that is a beautiful guitar. Beautifully played, I might add. Great video again, Eric, thank you.

Your lessons come at the exact right time and there have been some that I have rewatched countless times. Thanks for your amazing content, Eric!

Great Caesar's ghost, I needed you when I was 20 years old! That woulda been 1980. Great stuff, thanks!!!

I think you are the best and most pleasant guitar person on youtube. I have never even considered paying anyone on youtube before. I’m not quite there since I am only a hobbyist (in 30 odd years of noodling, I’ve never played with anyone else), but if you need a soundman, I’d love to work with you. I am as good at live sound as you are at playing and teaching guitar.

This explains a lot. I learned about triads in high school music class, so when I learned about the CAGED system years later, I'd already intuited some of the easier elements of it, and the rest just very quickly made sense to me.

I had a rough understanding of both the caged system and triads, but once my brain connected that they were the same things, it was like a lightning bolt went off. It truly opens up the entire neck and makes it to where you just kind of know where every chord is everywhere. I truly believe it is likely the thing people like Robert Johnson learned that led people to believe they had sold their souls because I think it is probably the biggest, fastest leap in lead ability. This is how you play through the changes.

I bought your zen caged course 1 week ago and i made real progres with little perceived effort. You really have sth to offer and i am going to get the playing over changes course next. But i have about 50 percent of the course left and i have 0 trouble to hang around with it for a while which is atypical for me. Great job eric, thanks!

Really like the arrangement of that keyboard part. That’s definitely something to explore further ❤

Thank you, Eric! ✌️😌🎸

Triads are the base for everything on the guitar! See also Matthieu Brandt's Guitar Lab: Triads and Hendrixian Double Stops. Over six hours of lesson material with a deep dive on Triads over the whole fingerboard.

Have got Gilmours lead in my head now...will probably be there ALL day... Unless...I take my guitfiddle and play it...😁 Thank you Eric😎👍👍

Dear Eric! Again you proved to us two things. Guitar playing is fun and it is funny. Best

Eric! Ive learned so much from you in the last 2 months, i was led onto marc ribot by a good friend and amazing musician , needless to say i was instantly hooked and that then led me to your channel , literally the best teacher on here! Everything you explain is so easily understandable and provides context as opposed to just the scales and shapes with 0 context! Thank you so much for all your hard work and efforts!

There's something about the way you present material, the way you teach. Somehow you get through to me like no music teacher ever has. Thank you.

Awesome. Video. Makes so much since. I've been doing that before the video and you summarize it all up for me. Love the guitar.

What a fantastic video have a good weekend Eric also happy st Patrick's day ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

Brilliant lesson Eric

Thanks for your lessons, Eric! Learned a lot from you over the last years.

Yup.. What Eric said... 👍

Love your channel man! You make music and guitar so cool

Tele sounds great today 👍

I just stumbled upon your channel and I’m really digging your teaching style… and you’re a fellow Seinfeld fan, to boot ❤

This stuff is so useful - kind of turns the guitar into a piano.

Awsome lesson!

Ive been saying/teaching this for years...CAGED is in everything

This is fantastic!

FANTASTIC !!! I’d just like to say to you young guys especially, who are in your first couple of years playing, the BEST & SMARTEST thing you could possibly do to skyrocket your playing is, Hook up with this dude for the private lessons he offers! Do it, and Do it NOW. I’ve been playing guitar about 45 years at this point, and while I know all my triads up the neck and intervals, it took me literally YEARS to get it on my own. I think back now seeing a guitar teacher like this, and if there was such a thing back in the 1970’s and 80’s in my early years of playing, if I could have learned this then, it would have changed everything! But guitar teachers in those days gave lessons the old fashioned way, picking a single note at a time and learning notes! Horrible. And I suffered through those lessons for a couple of years and then quit the lessons because it was boring, and it wasn’t about playing music! It was about more “technical” things. Now that I’m an old fart and finally learned all this over the years, I see this video like a GOLD MINE for beginning players with only a couple of years of playing been done. Again, we didn’t have teachers like this back then, and you probably have no idea just how great the things he’s showing in this video are. Had I had a teacher like this, I would have been playing at the level I’m at now in my 60’s, by the time I was 25 or 30 at the oldest! I’m saying all this because what he’s offering through lessons should be jumped on by anyone playing guitar who wants their playing to excel. This is the ticket. So, contact him and take some lessons one on one. I’m thinking of taking a few lessons from him myself! Because it’s never too late to learn something new! Thank you so much for this video, and thank you for offering lessons to us! You’re an awesome teacher, and you have the perfect disposition for teaching. I can tell just from this one video. Your computer should be burning up with players wanting private lessons! Kindest Regards… JM

You good sir are on a higher plane than most teachers , I may just invest in some private lessons ❤

Great stuff. It's worth noting that if we limit ourselves to 3 consecutive strings for each triad shape, there are "only" 12 possible triad shapes per chord (each triad has a root position and 2 inversions, so 3 in total, and then there are 4 possible strings you could start on, EADG in standard tuning--3 x 4 = 12). Can be a valuable way to make a more manageable number of shapes to study. On a related note, I like to think of the CAGED shapes as triad shapes and power chord shapes stacked on top of each other (including shapes cut off at the top or bottom). Triad shapes go down the fretboard and give you the 1, 3 and 5. Power chord shapes go up the fretboard and give you just the 1 and 5 and optionally another 1 above that. (Makes sense when you think about it, since the intervals are wider in a power chord, since there is no 3.) The CAGED shapes are just the 5 possible ways you can stack triad shapes and power chord shapes to make a larger shape consisting of all triad notes that stays within the span of a few frets so it's practical to play without impossibly wide stretches. They all alternate between power chords and triads, because otherwise it would go too far in one direction or the other and be impossible to play. There's no master logic that explains it all beyond that, those are just the shapes that happen to fall out from the guitar's particular tuning. The shapes are slightly different in closely related tunings like drop D or lute tuning, and almost unrecognizably different in very different tunings like mandolin/violin tuning.

I caught this inba short of yours. I'm hooked on that Tom Petty song. This lesson is right on time ❤

This is Great. Thanks. It Moves Along. In a Great way.

another great lesson

Thanks, Eric

If I ever get pulled over in my car and an officer asks me if I know why I was pulled over? I’m going to answer, “Cause we’re all Frequencies man.” 😂

Well explained Eric thanks

amazing video!!!!

Thank you

Amazing shit. Thank you sir. Love how you say Triad triad triad as well 😂

Thank you!

ERIC, do a lesson on how hendrix uses 6/9 chords because he uses his thumb notes that aren't the root note of the 6/9 chords

Hey Eric and comment section, help me understand. A triad is just another way to play a chord. There are several different shapes across the fretboard. Does each note (abcdefg) and their associated sounds (suspendeds, minor, 7ths, etc) have their own different shapes for all the triads? Or is there a rule I can follow to find another way to play any given chord? I guess I’m basically saying that there’s a LOT of info here and I’m looking for a pattern to follow to know what each triad would be for each chord

Where did you get your Strat neck? It doesn’t look stock

Hi, Eric. Can you please make a video on right-hand strum technique when hitting two-string or triad chords? Especially when it comes to triplets? For example, triplet strums on just the G and B strings? Thank you

More guitar instructors should take notes man, great job!

Great stuff theory and practice DOES PAY DIVIDENDS

What's the frequency Kenneth?

do a video that involves the seinfeld theme! please!

Watch this if only for the prescient disclaimer!

Eric 🎸✌🏻🎶🍕

1:57 What took you so long to mention Knopfler?? I might have to unsubscribe now.

You lost me today

That disclaimer at minute 5 is why I love this dude. Thank you sir for not being a snob about this stuff 🙏

Who would unironically listen to Eric playing different chords and saying "Triad" over and over like he does around 12:51?😄

Awesome lesson - I love that you sell the tabs for individual lessons separate from Patreon.

Eric - love your videos and approach. It’s like Mr. Rogers comes to my neighborhood to teach guitar 😊

As always, SO well taught, clear, useful, perfectly broken down, applicable for all levels, etc!

Yep, learn all the triads and inversions, it will change the way you play. Only ones I haven’t learned are the augmented and diminished triads, not sure how I feel about those ones yet.

THIS IS THE GOOD SHIT (the vids are all great but this made my day)

I got lucky when I found you Eric, great lesson, funny and informative at the same time. 'You Got Lucky', possibly the greatest Tom Petty song of al time? It's the one that got me hooked for sure.

VINTAGE HAUGEN! all the hits! This one to join the rest of your great ones.

Before I knew all these shapes and triads,whenever I saw a guitar player playing these shapes lower on the neck I thought man!!how do they know these crazy shapes down there it’s gotta be magic.lol.thought they were just some crazy unknown chords.wish I had Eric 10 20 years ago,damn

Thanx for using Domino... I SO love that tune...

Thank you so much, Eric. I eagerly look forward to your videos like this. I can't express how much I appreciate you and your guitar insights.

A cool thing about triads is that they enable you to change chords quickly without having to move your fingers far.

Crazy to see this lessons. I was trying to play "M'envoler plus haut" from the french guy Paul Personne (an amazing piece of rock). To play it, I was looking at the chords, finding forms around the 8-9th fret, and I was trying to figure out the triads available on each of the 4 form at this place for the 4 chords of the song. Exactly what you explain here. I confirm, it works to create solo and even do rythm

I learn so much in your lessons. Thank you

Don't wanna discuss it...but wait Van, if it's triads n CAGED i actually do. Very savvy and useful approach!

Your right hand technique and touch are impeccable, so tasteful

Happy to Patreon - You give so much for free here on RU-vid, and it's all substance.

what caged my eyes is your finger ring with the blue greenish stone, you have e link for it?

Controlled, applied pattern recognition at its best.

Great lesson. Do I detect a bit of GristleTone in that Tele?

I needed this! I’m 61 years old, have carpal tunnel in both hands and there’s no way I can cleanly & clearly play the full CAGED chord shapes. You wouldn’t happen to have some triad diagrams lying around somewhere would you?

Eric, you must be a mind reader, I wanted to learn how to play Domino, (earlier this year), Is there a tutorial on your page for that particular song ? I really wish that I had your guitar knowledge Alan Greer in Columbus Georgia

I'm working through your caged truefire course right now. 1st things 1st, I'm really enjoying it. How proficient in a particular shape and scale should I be before moving on to the next? I feel weird about piling on new info before I have the previous concept down pat, but in another video you make a good analogy with learning to type vs getting on writing your short story. Where will I find the happy middle ground? Thanks again, I love what you do for youtube guitar.

Hows the starcaster treating you? Gear review one day?

Hey

great lesson as always. for me the most important part is the realization of open chord voicings and possibilities for fingers vs pick.

Eric is fast becoming my favorite online guitar teacher