CAGED - the good, the bad and the ugly?

GuyBoden

This is the only pattern I can see after 45+ years of playing:

viz

hehe nice

stratman3142

GuyBoden said:

This is the only pattern I can see after 45+ years of playing:

That's how I see the fretboard when locating root notes.

But if somebody said to me: "play a solo in Eb harmonic minor", I'd be stuffed unless I thought in interval patterns.

I haven't got perfect pitch, so it's all relative (so to speak)

carlos

GuyBoden said:

This is the only pattern I can see after 45+ years of playing:

Colour blind and can only see the white keys on the piano?

dazzer22

I find it hard to see anything when i am shredding . 

Tannin

I think the CAGED system is a very good thing. I don't use it myself but we all learn in different ways and it is good to have a variety of approaches. Different things click for different people. 

The one thing that the CAGED idea does do for me is if once in a while I get a bit lost and if I can see that I'm playing (say) part of an E7 shape (on whatever fret) then that's a bit of a signpost back to familiar ground.