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I can do that, or at least have a sense of what it feels like, but only in a super limited way. So, there are certain chords or scales that have come up a lot, especially those I am used to sight-reading in when reading classical guitar. Basically from one flat, through to 2 or 3 sharps. When I am playing chords from those scales, I can mostly visualise them on the neck without thinking very literally in terms of CAGED shapes.
Which all sounds great, but really, it doesn't happen for me enough for me to fluidly improvise over 'changes' in the way that a good jazz player can. Which is why I'm a mediocre improviser (over changes) at best, and a terrible one, at worst.
If you asked me to play, say, over Abm7b5, I'd have no clue without slavishly working around CAGED shapes (although that's still pretty handy). But if you said, Emaj7, or Am, say. I wouldn't really be thinking in terms of shapes. I'd just kind of 'see' the notes.
I imagine for a really good jazz player, they have that for almost any common chord/tonality they might encounter.
That's pretty easy because I know that shape with roots on bottom for 6th, 5th and 4th strings. Just don't ask me to play the inversions off the cuff...
@Matt_McG Could it be that you've just not spent enough time with Abm7b5 and it's associated scales/inversions/arps compared to other chords and scales you're more familiar with? Forget about CAGED for the moment, do you know where a m7b5 chord sits in both a major or minor key, how and where it's used?
I was just making the point that the skills of someone like Holdsworth are built on practice, and even for someone like me, I can do some of that fretboard visualisation because I've played enough in certain keys, and especially _read_ music enough in certain keys/tonalities etc that I can visualise them really easily. And for those that I've not played so much, or as intensely, I need to use techniques like CAGED as hooks to help me navigate.
the sequence of notes is unacceptable or intorable to everyone?.
I find that there are those things that are used regularly, which become fluent, and those where it's necessary to assimilate and plan.