Practicing in CAGED.
I've read about this in several posts. Can someone tell what it is?
Thanks
Practicing in CAGED.
I've read about this in several posts. Can someone tell what it is?
Thanks
Hi Mark
I watched your tutorial on the CAGED System
I thought it was very good. Clear, well paced.
I'd like to share some comments, just
because there are people like you out there teaching and
using the same CAGED device.
So this may sound a little like "what I would have done"
In fact, it is. But I feel this is what we do on forums in
order to advance ourselfs. So I'm well intentioned.
First off, I feel it's important to let the student know/understand
that the five campfire chords create a web of C chords up and
down the neck as soon as they are brought up in discussion. If
they are ready for the CAGED chords, they can handle it.
It would be the second example I give after "here are the five open chord shapes"
And I would point out, make a big point that this Web of chords
on the neck spell the word CAGED.
next, "here they are played in five locations on the fretboard".
next, I would discuss how there are no gaps in this "web of C chords".
I would discuss how "the hi side of the C shape is the low side
of the A shape", hi side of A is low side of G etc. Very important
for the newb to know this.
And I would be talking about the practical chord shapes we use.
.....C.......A......G.....LE.......HE.........D... ..shapes..L =Low E, H = High E
|------------------------8-----12-|-|
|---1----5---------------8-----13-|-|
|---0----5----5----9-----9-----12-|-|
|---2----5----5----10---10-----10-|-|
|---3----3----7----10-------------|-|
|-------------8----8--------------|-|
I would discuss 'this much' of the CAGED Chords and be very clear
before the next step.
End of lesson.
Next lesson I might bring up how scales and intervals work.
(read my post earlier in this thread for my rap on this please)
If you read that, then I don't have to write it again.
I would most likely bring up all these topics regarding the
static C chord Before I start talking about sliding up to create a D chord.
That has become a point of confusion, mixing the "making a D chord"
with "this is the C chord as it lays across the neck".
Two different subjects.
One very mechanical, the other harmony based.
Two subjects.
When at last I talk about making D chords or whatever, I present that
discussion with a discussion about the C major scale.
Up and down one string, like Mick Goodrick suggests.
Because going from C to D is a harmony based activity,, This could branch out into
"How do you spell chords". and other topics.
If those questions pop up in my fundamental discussion of the CAGED Chords then
I redirect.
Because they are two different subjects.
Learning how the CAGED chords work on the fretboard is purely mechanical.
It has nothing to do with making music.
It has everything to do with shrinking and/or demystifying the fretboard
in a static/frozen way. It demystifies so you can get into the music.
Because music should be what occupies your thoughts when playing.
But these are two different things.
End of lesson. Uh, $$$ pleeze.
How easy they forget.
peace.
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Well it's nice to see such well layed out thoughts.Thanks for the input! I have just been doing these lessons in this format for a few months now...its very different than having the student in front of you...
The campfire chords and "web of "C" chords thing I would figure would be addressed in this part of the lesson (Which is also discussed in the video portion):
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Much of the other material (Building scales and chords) are covered in subsequent lessons...I've been trying to do one easily digestible lesson per week....here is the archived series (not including the minors scales which are only on the blog..)
http://premierguitarlessons.com/ind...ent&task=category§ionid=4&id=13&Itemid=28
I appreciate the input...it really makes me look back and see if I am being clear enough with the lessons. I do use all of this stuff with my private students now that I have worked it up and so I have caught much of what I felt were "mistakes" in the writing but there is always room for improvement!
Well it's nice to see such well layed out thoughts.
And I like your passion on the subject of teaching.
Keep up the good work.
Sounds like you and me, we're in the trenches![]()
Practicing in CAGED.
I've read about this in several posts. Can someone tell what it is?
Thanks
Tomo, can you explain what you mean by applying intervals to chord changes? Cause right now, as I'm typing, I'm practicing II-V-I-VI7 changes from out of a single scale shape (the G and E ones from the CAGED) a la Jimmy Bruno's No Nonsense Jazz Guitar video.
Practicing chord changes from an interval perspective seems like new concept to me. Is this like a Joe Diorio thing?
Whichever train you take to get downtown, you don't need to stand around on the platform anymore once you're there.
I really like that analogy....I'm gonna have to steal it...![]()
I'm with Tomo - it's a good tool. One thing it's very good for is learning to see the major scale all up and down the neck, and play it at will.
THEN....
it might be suggested that one set aside the system,