CAGED Basics II | 3 | A Shape
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Hi Everyone,
Welcome to Lesson 3 of CAGED Basics II! Here is a link to Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 if you need a review!
Check the chapter markers on the video above for the Lesson, Homework, and Practice sections and download the PDFs at the bottom of this post.
In this video, I break down the A Shape, it's relative minor shape (the G minor shape), and how the A Shape Pentatonic scale overlays on top. There is a huge difference between knowing your pentatonic scales vs seeing how they interact with the CAGED System. As this lesson continues, I hope you start to appreciate how the CAGED System helps music theory come to life on the guitar neck.
Here are the BPM play-along tracks for the practice section. Remember, you don't HAVE to go faster than 60BPM to move on to the next lesson, but I've provided faster tracks if you want the practice:
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Also keep in mind, you don't need to play along for the entire duration of the track! You only need to play the 8 measure tune laid out in the Practice PDF below. The practice tracks loop over and over for practice.
CAGED Basics II:
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 11 | Full Circle
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 10 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 09 | D Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 08 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 07 | E Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 06 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 05 | G Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 04 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 03 | A Shape (current lesson)
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 02 | C Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 01 | Overview
If you've got questions, eureka moments, or you'd like to share a clip of your progress on the play along tracks, do so on the community forum.
Comments
Hey man, I'm a little confused. Isn't F#m the relative minor of A major? Which would effectively have the same shape as Gm, but all the notes would move down half a step.
Michael Coletti
2024-11-10 04:38:04 +0000 UTCHoly Shit! I have been practicing for the last 2 hours and organically after getting the melody down, i started playing the pentatonic shapes and I figured how to move them up and down the fretboard into new shapes that are probably upcoming lessons. It was so rewarding to figure out the shapes intuitively. You are an awesome teacher Scott, thank you so so so much for helping make sense of this for me :)
Mithun
2024-04-26 18:23:54 +0000 UTCThanks so much for the lessons. I didn't realize when I started this journey it would involve eating an elephant! Are songs only 2-3 minutes long because that is the average length of time a normal person can concentrate? How do you handle getting "flustered". Right now I am thinking it is practice, practice and more practice... nothing defeats practice! I am looking for help, I have heard you use the phrase "mindfulness". Can you talk about that? What do you do when your mind explodes into ten different directions? Are there tricks and techniques, routines that can help? Thought I better stop and ask this while I am thinking about it. Thanks, Merry Christmas.
Richard Finlay
2023-12-22 16:16:59 +0000 UTCSounds like you're improvising in a pentatonic position, which is the core concept of learning to play a solo! Be proud.
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-12-13 21:57:15 +0000 UTCOk it might look like I am on Lesson 3, but I am just using its backing track to practice lesson 2 (C Shape). Anyway I have been there for awhile... almost embarrassed to but it has been a couple weeks. Today I just finished 60bpm, and a little proud of myself that I could keep up. There is my eureka moment: I like this Pentatonic Thing! So far it is the only thing in music theory I have found to be a little forgiving. Why? Well when I blow it I just keep going, making stuff up and end on a root along with the backing track. Do I have a right to feel good or not? How would that work if I was playing in a group? I have not thought much about that.
Richard Finlay
2023-12-13 21:43:52 +0000 UTCAwesome lesson content .... brilliant PDF's and backing tracks!!!!
Phil James
2023-12-06 22:41:34 +0000 UTCoh whoops! It looks like I uploaded the Practice PDF twice. I'll fix that right now
Scott Paul Johnson
2022-06-22 17:22:57 +0000 UTCHi Scott, thank you so much for this absolutely essential content on CAGED, will there be a lesson/theory pdf uploaded also for part 3?
Andreas Papadopoulos
2022-06-22 14:05:07 +0000 UTC
