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- Hi, I'm Sophie Giuliani and I'm here with Fender
for the technique of the week.
This week, I'll be talking about the CAGED system.
This is a great concept to help you navigate
and visualize a fret board.
This system is formed by the five most common
open position chords.
We have C major (guitar strumming)
A major (guitar strumming)
G major (guitar strumming)
E major (guitar strumming)
and D major. (guitar strumming)
We can transfer each of these open position chords
into movable shapes.
To demonstrate this I'm gonna do it in the key of D.
Most of you are probably already familiar
with the E shape and the A shape,
as they are both commonly used bar chords.
If we take our open position A chord (guitar strumming)
and move it up to the 10th fret so that our root node is D.
(guitar strumming)
There is our D chord in an A shape.
Now, if we do the same thing without A chord.
(guitar strumming)
And move it up to the fifth fret on the fifth string.
(guitar strumming)
There is our D chord in an A shape.
So now what we're left with is our D shape.
Now we already have an open position D chord.
(guitar strumming)
But if we were to move this into a movable shape,
we'd come up here at the 12th fret.
(guitar strumming)
For the G shape, we're gonna be coming up
to the 10th fret here, with our 3rd finger,
using our 2nd finger on the 9th fret
of the A string and then we're borrowing
our 1st finger across the 2nd, 3rd and 4th string.
And lastly, our pinky is going to be playing the octave.
(guitar strumming)
And finally, we have our C shape.
(guitar strumming)
If we move out, open C chord up two frets.
(guitar strumming)
We have our D major chord in a C shape.
Now let's connect all of these movable chords
staying in the key of D major.
So we have our C shape (guitar strumming)
our A shape (guitar strumming)
our G shape (guitar strumming)
our E shape (guitar strumming)
and our D shape. (guitar strumming)
Now let's take a look at how we can integrate scales
into these shapes.
Again, we'll keep in the key of D major.
So here's our pattern one coming from our C shape.
(guitar strumming)
Here's pattern two, coming from our A shape.
(guitar strumming)
And here's pattern three, coming from our G shape.
(guitar strumming)
And here's pattern four, coming from our E shape.
(guitar strumming)
And lastly, we have pattern five coming from our D shape.
(guitar strumming)
I hope this has been a good introduction
to how the CAGED system works.
Again, I'm Sophie Giuliani.
Thank you di Fender for having me and have a great week.
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