The CAGED System 6: A Closer Look at the ‘E’ Shape
Today we’re going to examine a particular set of very common chord shapes, which don’t seem to fit in the CAGED system…. or do they?
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Changing Strings – Nylon Acoustics ('Classical' Guitar)
Its essential to know the correct way to string a guitar, and avoid string slipping and tuning issues. This post looks at the nylon strung ‘classical’ guitar.
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Arpeggio Diagrams
Today I’ve just posted a few pdf’s which show the CAGED shapes for major, minor, dom7, maj7 and min7 arpeggios. They also have the most common two and three octave fingerings.
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The CAGED System 5: Arpeggios
So far our look at the CAGED system has been limited to scales and chords, but the CAGED system also works nicely with arpeggios too.
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Chord Diagrams: Simple Triads
I’ve been doing a few articles on the CAGED system recently, so I thought it was about time that I released a pdf with the basic CAGED shapes for simple triads.
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Finding the Notes on the Fretboard Part 3
If you’re like many students, you can manage to find the notes within the first three or four frets, but find the upper registers much more daunting. In Part 3 of ‘Finding the Notes on the Fretboard’ we have a look at how the notes are laid out on the neck, and identify patterns to make the higher frets more manageable.
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Finding the Notes on the Fretboard Part 2
In Part 2 we begin applying every thing that we have learned so far to the guitar neck.
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The CAGED System 4: 7th Chords
Like we did in the first CAGED article, today we are going to begin with the basic open shapes of the various seventh chords, and then develop moveable, and barred versions of those open chords.
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Lead Tone 6: Adding Compression
Compression is a tool which compresses (reduces) the dynamic range of a signal. It developed as a tool in studios but quickly found its way onto our pedal boards. Unfortunately, amongst guitarists, the compressor has a reputation for having limited uses – usually used as a sustainer or to get a ‘country’ squashed attack. By looking at compressors from a recording engineers point-of-view we see that they are far more versatile than we might have first thought.
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Scale Charts: Major, Minor(s), and Pentatonics
Recently I’ve been preparing a number of chord charts and scale charts for my CAGED Articles as well as for the Essential Open Chords post. While I was backing-up/re-organising my working files from those posts I realised, that I’d created a whole bunch of fingering charts. So I added a the ones that were missing and collated them all into a few pdfs and hey presto!
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