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CAGED Scales vs Chord Shapes
I’m working through the CAGED Scale Reference and trying to tie it together. I wasn’t exactly tracking Tony’s hand shape with finger position and actual notes played in the video(s). Therefore, I painfully and excruciatingly recorded each video into individual tables – to practice scales in the end.
Can someone double check me? I’m not sure the WHW is exactly correct. The notes are transcribed based on Tony’s String/Fret/Deg he mentioned in the individual CAGED videos using my guitar tuner. I’m sure I’m missing the point – in fact I know I am. I have no idea how Chord Shapes translate into Scale and Fingering.
For simplicity, I’m staying in fret 1-5 for consistency on each shape/key. This is where having someone to talk to would be beneficial.
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@rdeputy I am unable to download or open your attachment. Is there anyway that you could save it in a different format possibly in a word document or PDF?
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Good evening Loraine:
Word doc uploaded…
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I am using No Bull the Caged System for Guitar book by James Shipway as a tool to go beyond TAC’s introduction to the concepts.
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Hi @rdeputy : I remember not long ago being in a similar place as you describe. I was so deep in the forest I could not see the trees. The chord shape IS the basic building block of the pentatonic scale which becomes the building block for the octave scale. All of these are built on a single root tone. This is the time I started to idendify the individual names of the the three notes in the chord and figuring out how they relate to each other in order. After the academic exercise of thinking it through on paper take the time to feel it and hear it on the guitar as you play. The more this is practiced the less need there is for writing it out. My experience was they were interconnected: I could not do one without the other but as I felt and heard, paired with the understanding….CLARITY abounded. Chord degrees (triads)…that may be your next frontier?! If you have that down, we can figure out where your focus will yield the best progress.
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@rdeputy you are asking alot of very very good questions!! If you’ve already taken the Fret Wiz course, I highly recommend you look into Edly’s Music Theory for Practical People, by Ed Roseman. I’ve heard Tony make reference to this book and have since read it cover to cover. It’s a great “part 2” after FretWiz.
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