CAGED System Basics | 6 | E Shape
Added 2021-08-02 18:11:50 +0000 UTCWhere to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan • Book a Private Lesson
Hi Everyone,
Welcome to the final shape in this series: the E shape. You are probably already familiar with this shape! It's one of the most common bar chords and usually the first movable shape folks learn on guitar. In this lesson, we put it all over the fingerboard and show how it connects to the G shape. In the next lesson, we'll put all the shapes together!
Here is the Jam Track: A Major I IV V IV Also attached below in mp3 form.
Once you're familiar with the relationship between these two shapes, move on to the final lesson in this series.
Post your homework and questions on the community forum and please post some audio or video of your practice sessions if you find some voicings of G and E shapes that you enjoy!
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Other helpful links:
Scott's Recommended Lesson Plan
Searchable Lesson Archive
How to Join the Community Forum
Scott's Jam Tracks
SPJ Live YouTube Channel
Scott's Main YouTube Channel
Comments
Hi Scott, awesome lesson as always. I found a little typo on page 3. There are 4 voicing examples next to each other and the first one shows 2 Roots and one 3rd. I guess you wanted to write one Root one 5th and one 3rd (R 5 3)
Bence Gutai
2024-09-05 08:54:25 +0000 UTCHmmm - yep! Good catch.
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-10-30 18:26:04 +0000 UTCHi Scott, great lessons. I may be missing something, but on page 2, the second sentence, did you mean to write "The G shape and the E shape share root notes on the E strings,.."
Richard Finlay
2023-10-29 06:09:31 +0000 UTCI really do try to leave those things in on purpose for that exact reason!
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-09-26 17:03:05 +0000 UTCI want to comment on your "Practice -vs- Performance" perspective: I find it very comforting to see those little mistakes that you rarely make. I think of a parallel with, say, a carpenter apprentice. If the apprentice only saw the "perfected" final product, there is very little benefit without seeing the little corrections made to get there. Keep making those little mistakes!
Ben Poe
2023-09-26 14:00:03 +0000 UTCI agree. I’ve done 4 other online guitar courses and the reasons for, and linkage of the CAGED has never this clearly outlined. Great work Scott!
Gregory Lehman
2021-12-14 20:36:42 +0000 UTCLove this serie of lessons! Can't wait to wrap it up with the final 'Full circle' one. Thanks Scott
Frédéric M.
2021-08-03 23:49:33 +0000 UTCScott's mustache is a work of art. How dare you call it strange :)
steven richardson
2021-08-02 20:52:57 +0000 UTCUnderstanding the whole guitar neck ✅ A normal teacher would probably take more than an year to teach this to us! You with your homework, pdfs, crazy magic guitar and strange mustache can make this understandable in less than a couple of lessons. Feel kind of sorry for teachers out there. You should try to teach them how to teach...
DeDé
2021-08-02 19:55:28 +0000 UTC
