Be A Better Acoustic Guitarist: How to Master the CAGED System

The CAGED chord systema visual aid based on the open-chord shapes C, A, G, E, and Dcan be a terrific ally for navigating the guitar fretboard. If youve done any work with the major-triad version of this system, you know something about its versatility. And as you might imagine, dominant-seventh CAGED chordsremember, major triads with flatted sevenths addedcan be equally useful. You might already know many if not all of the chord grips, but in this lesson youll move them up and down the neck of the guitar and find new ways of connecting the shapes in some common chord progressions. You can use these CAGED chord shapes on any song you know and with any luck, the system will become a tool that will help stimulate your creativity.