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CAGED: A Practical Guide
Tutor Richard Barrett | Gear used Fender ’62 Reissue Stratocaster, Boss SD-1 (modded) & Vox AC15 C1 | Difficulty
| 10 mins per example
can be a great way of learning the geography of the fretboard. The shapes, both major and minor, occur in every position and key just like the pentatonic boxes. In fact, they form part of these very same patterns but in a far less linear ‘two-notes-per-string’ way. It’s easy to fall into the trap of regarding the CAGED shapes purely as chords. After all, where would we be without our E-
