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CAGED Guitar

CAGED guitar is an abstraction of music theory providing guitar teachers and players a mechanistic approach to gain an intuitive understanding the guitar fretboard when played in standard EADGBE tuning. Five adaptable shapes of standard first position guitar chords applied to the remainder of the fretboard provide the framework to enable a player to quickly learn to play at least five major chord inversions in all twelve keys. The method extends to minor, diminished, major 7, and all other chord voicings.

CAGED is a mnemonic device that enables the player to quickly recall and apply the chord inversions (shapes) in all keys, as the first position shapes of C, A, G, E, and D provide a starting point for each key and a logical progression of shapes to follow up the fretboard.

For example, in the key of C, the progression of shapes is C, A, G, E, D. In the key of A, the progression of shapes is A, G, E, D, C. In the key of G, the progression of shapes is G, E, D, C, A. In the key of E, the progression is E, D, C, A, G. In the key of D, the progression is D, C, A, G, E.