In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several ideas that are useful when playing rhythm guitar. We'll explore an idea from each of the 5 CAGED System positions. … [Read more...]
Slow country lead using the CAGED System – Guitar Lesson – EP594
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a slow, country style lead that you'll be able to easily visualize by relating it to the CAGED System. This lead has lots of open space and lost of classic, pedal steel licks. … [Read more...]
Lead with Arpeggios: finding the right notes to match the chord – Guitar Lesson – EP593
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to use arpeggios to outline the notes of your lead, giving you safe notes to land on. We'll look at the Dominant 7 arpeggio in 4 of the 5 CAGED System positions. … [Read more...]
THIS is how to USE the CAGED System to play lead over chord changes – Guitar Lesson – EP582
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play lead over a 1-4-5 chord progression in all 5 positions on the neck by using the chord positions of the CAGED System. … [Read more...]
Use chord shapes from The CAGED System to play solo Blues guitar – Blues guitar lesson – EP578
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a solo blues composition that gives you something really fun to play, while providing a great way to practice chord positions from The CAGED System. … [Read more...]
Blues lead by YOURSELF! Slow blues lead that works in any key (no jam track needed) – Guitar Lesson EP561
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a slow blues lead in the key of C that you can play by yourself (no jam track needed). I'll be playing out of different positions of the CAGED System as well. … [Read more...]
Part 5 – The CAGED System Series – The D Shape – Plus a lead that demonstrates how to use – EP560
This week's guitar lesson is the final lesson in this 5 part mini-series on The CAGED System, where we'll do a deep dive into the "D" Shape. You'll learn how to play major and minor chords, scales, and arpeggios in this shape, and how to actually use it by learning a lead in the 2nd half of the video. … [Read more...]
Part 4 – The CAGED System Series – The G Shape – 5 Ideas within the G Shape – Guitar Lesson – EP559
In this week's guitar lesson, we're continuing our series on The CAGED System. In this lesson we'll be doing a deep dive into the G Shape and looking at the major and minor chords, scales, and apreggios you can play within this shape, as well as 5 useful ideas that are unique to this shape. … [Read more...]
Part 3 – The CAGED System (A Shape) – Using the C,E & A shapes in a blues lead – Guitar Lesson EP558
This week's guitar lesson is a continuation of the CAGED System series in which we'll be doing a deep dive on the A shape and learning how to play major and minor chords, scales and arpeggios within that shape. We'll also combine the C, E and A shape to create a soulful, minor key blues lead. … [Read more...]
The CAGED System (E Shape) – Combining the E & C shapes to make music – Guitar Lesson EP557
This week's guitar lesson is a continuation of last week's CAGED System deep dive in which we'll be exploring the E shape and learning how to play major and minor chords, scales and arpeggios. We'll also connect the C and E shapes to create a standalone blues composition … [Read more...]
