CAGED GUITAR SYSTEM Navigation MUST For Improvisation.

the biggest problem I see with guitar students who are learning cage is that they understand the concepts of it but when it comes to real-time application in terms of improvising and playing uh it's hard for them to find their next goal like change the next chord tones or change the next scale there's a slow down like that mentally happens as they search and when you're you know playing guitar and you're improvising you want to be as frictionless and as smooth as possible in both your playing and also your decisions as to where to go and if you have to like slow down time or kind of stop what you're doing and pull yourself away from the moment just to find a different chord shape or a different arpeggio or different pentatonic or a different scale that really takes you out of the moment and it's also kind of frustrating and so I find a lot in uh students that were missing um the bigger picture of caged the real navigational component that a lot of people miss yes and so this lesson is going to help you navigate 10 times better now you've got you got to put in the work okay I'm going to show you the work that you need to put in and this is one kind of big practice session but we're going to take all of you like Hunters out there that are playing you know on an a chord and all of a sudden like we change to an f and you're trying to find F and you have to slow down and kind of jump or you're trying to map out in real time and and just not getting getting it we're going to turn you into you know seamless frictionless smooth guitar players all right so how do we do this well uh this is for people who have been who have been studying cage now we know that caged uh system or the cage court system consists of a c-shape connecting to an a shape connecting to a g shape connecting to an E shape and connecting two back to a connecting to a D shape and connecting back to a c-shaped chord those were all C chords in five different shapes and a lot of people focus on these as puzzle pieces which is like it's understandable um you know to say well I have a c shape and I have an a shape and I have a g shape and I have an e shape and I have a D shape but the biggest Miss is that the cage chord system is actually this complete shape [Music] that's the cage court system inside of it are the Caged cord excuse me the cage cords but that's the cage chord system and a lot of people like if I asked you to think of a puzzle you know are you thinking of puzzle pieces or are you thinking of a picture that has all little puzzles you know puzzle pieces snap together and the idea is a lot of people think of the cage court system as puzzle pieces and right there is the big Miss uh we want to know or you want to know all of us want to know the cage chord system completely locked together uh with no no friction and so if you can't play a cage chord system like this you know with minimal friction uh then there is your starting point and so I'm going to show you something that's going to help you navigate better now why why do you want to learn this well because of course not only are you going to learn where the chords are but you got to understand something all the root notes for these chords they never move and this c chord brings a c pentatonic and this c chord brings a c pentatonic and this c chord brings a c pentatonic and so on and this c chord brings a C major scale and this brings a C major scale and this bring the c major scale the chords themselves are the navigational tools to help you of course find the chords they're there to help you find the Pentatonix and they're helping they're there to help you find the scales all right and if you can't find those chords first you can't find those scales everything is navigated in the cage chord system by bringing the chord shapes to you all right those chords are constellations they are the easiest most navigatable pieces of scales and pour it together actually that you can find with your eyes and ears and play and navigate and bring everything to you so this whole shape this whole entire shape needs to be mastered you have to know its components but you have to master the shape and in mastering the shape you'll start to memorize where chords are and of course scales are so let me show you what I want you to do all right we're going to start with a c shape we'll do this with a couple shapes but you're going to take your c-shape chord and we're going to start here and you're going to say yourself okay this is a root note here and this is a root note Here and Now with your eyes closed you want to try and do this with your eyes closed or I'll show you okay and I'm going to keep my eyes closed as best I can is you want to put your first finger where your ring finger is play the note there it is now you make your a-shaped cord all right the most important piece of this puzzle is that you have these two root notes you put your first finger where your ring finger is and you play the a shape chord the next thing you want to do is take your index finger and put it where your ring finger is completely of the entire bar and now you want to put your pinky three Frets up on the high E string this is the thin G shape all right so you want to know how to play this without looking I'll I'll open my eyes by one look that way well look how I moved look again slow motion how I took my fingers put them where I want them to be okay oh how embarrassing right and so you want to know the shape this whole big shape first now this is a high E string okay and you're on the eighth fret of the high East ring and you can play the thick G shape like this if you wish like that but the most important piece of the puzzle is that you have the same note on the eighth fret of the E string so you're gonna put your first finger there then you play your e shape all right now you have your e shape and the root note is where your first finger is it's also where your pinky is now we're going to do this slowly I'm just kind of showing you like how you want to practice this and uh you want to take your pinky and you want to put your first finger where your pinky is now you can use your eyes here because like a pinky like where your pinky is on your hands it's hard to visualize sometimes and you put your first finger there and you can play the modified D shape that I show you in my cage chord lesson number one on my cage primer and there are the five shapes of the cage chord system but as one complete system now some fun facts here okay if you know this if you if you really can go like this that was a screw up there but if you can do that and and go backwards [Music] you don't need to watch this video but if you're having a hard time navigating and you know your stuff you want to keep watching the idea here is that this root note map that connects these shapes this root note to this root note this root note to this route this root note to this root note and this root note here this root note to this root note here and then that root note to the root note here on the B string now we're going to go over that completely in a couple seconds but that is the cage chord system you don't have to think about right now what notes you're playing and you really don't have to think about what chord you're playing you're probably like what what then what I mean by that is whatever chord you start with if you connect your shapes C shape to a shape to G shape to e shape to D shape and you can go back of course back to C shape if you connect them properly those are all C chords all right all of them and so you don't have to go is it's a c chord chord is a c chord now we're going to change chords in a couple minutes but I want to show you the practice routine you want to do and you want to do it right now as you're sitting with me all right you want to look at that root note map that I showed you and you want to start thinking of those Frets first okay so this is an exercise you want to do these are several practice exercises you want to do that are going to help fortify your navigation all right so you're gonna take your c chord and say root notes first fret and third fret the same connection physically gonna put your first finger where your ring finger is all right and you're going to play your a shape but you're gonna say third fret and fifth fret [Music] [Applause] so one one five put your first finger where your ring finger is there's that exercise okay fifth fret of the G string and eighth fret of the high E string these are all C's there's a c here all right eighth fret of the E string and tenth fret of the D string and then tenth fret of D string and 13th fret of the B string now you want to say those fret numbers when you're doing that root note map like that let's do the same exact thing let's start on the different chord so you can I can show you that that root note map shape never changes right the the starting point changes but the actual shape never changes so if I started on a g okay my root note is on the E string and now all we've done is picked up the root note on the E string and so you're going to put your first finger here and now you're going to play your e shape and there's your second root note on the D string fifth fret you're gonna put your first finger where your pinky is and then you're going to play your D shape and there it is on the eighth fret of the B string now we have to connect your D shape to your C shape which I do talk about my cage primer playlist right that is going to be where you go one fret behind that root note with your first finger and play your C shape now these root notes on the same are in the same place from the same strings that we started on C they're on the B string and the a string then we're going to connect that put your first finger where your pinky is and you're gonna play your a shape all right so we have all of your G's [Music] and now you want to concentrate on those root notes right you want to go okay three to five five to eight all right eight to ten to twelve and if you want to go back knock the fire you've got 12 15. sorry about that you really want to concentrate on those root notes and you can see all we did was just we started on a different place on that map all right let's do with one more chord and just to show you and then we're going to talk more about this practice all right practicing just like this is going to make you navigate better and I'll show you how in a couple minutes all right so Let's do an a chord all right well our root notes on our open a other root notice on the G string second fret I'm following that root note map all right after the a shape comes our G shape so we have our our g string root note and our high e all right now or your low E all right there's that root note your first finger there and play your e shape it's your index finger and your pinky and play your D shape put your first finger where your pinky was let your modify D shape here is our D to C connection you have one fret behind your root note your first finger and play your C shape there's that b string and a string root note put your first finger where your um next finger was and we play the a shape now you can see that we're taking all those puzzle pieces and we're connecting them of course in the same shape over and over and over again just picking them up in different places uh before we move on let's just do those individual root notes zero zero or open a second fret G to fifth fret e seven for a d seven for a d 10th fret B 10th fret B 12th fret a and 12 for a and fourteenth fret on the uh the G string all right now so the root note map or the cage chord system is that whole piece right there what you want to do after you after you can comfortably start realizing that you want to be able to connect these shapes you know as as fast as you possibly can without worry about the the chord name or the notes that you're playing at first all right you just want to get that shape down the second exercise you want to do is connect all your chord shapes forward like I like I said with that physical Connection in mind meaning okay you know ring finger index okay ring finger index Pinky Okay index really index pinky uh pinky there it is you know and you really want to you really want to focus on the physical aspect of everything after that when you get to your last shape now what you want to do is you want to go backwards but you don't want to go backwards like look with those physical connections you want to go backwards with your brain and naming the chord and its shape so here we have a d shaped c chord well what came before that what became before that was the E shape c chord here on the eighth fret what came before that let's think that was the G shape c chord on the fifth fret what came before that that was the a-shaped um c chord on the third fret and what came before that that was the open c chord so on the way up you connect with the physical like this like [Music] foreign on the way back okay okay now we start naming what we're doing D shape c chord connected to the E shape c chord connected to the G shape c chord connected to the a shape c chord connected to the C shape c chord this is going to do wonders for you uh your mind your your mind and your mind's eye and your eyes are going to see the connections on the way up and then you're going to start to think about what they actually are the more you do this the more you're gonna start to say oh yeah that G shaped chord on the fifth fret is a c chord or that e-shaped um chord on the uh on sorry on the eighth fret is a c chord or the tenth fret D shape is a c chord the more you do this the more you're going to start to physically know that cage chord system giant shape you need to know and now it's individual pieces let's do it with a different chord let's do it with uh we'll do it with G we did g earlier so we have G and we're gonna do the physical physical connection on the way up first finger here to the E shape first finger goes to where my pinky is okay boom I play my D shape all right I have my root note here but we're connecting the D shape to the C shape so it's one fret behind that root note with my index finger so I go the seventh fret play my C shape I have the B string I have the a string I put my first finger where my pinky is and I'm going to play the a shape if I want to go even higher I'm going to put my index finger where my ring finger is and play my G shape backwards okay what do I have here I have a g shape G chord what came before it well it was on the 10th fret it was the a shaped G chord what came before that well that was on that seventh fret C shape G chord what came before that that was the fifth fret d-shaped chord sorry fifth fret D shape G chord and what came before that well that was the e-shaped chord on the third fret and then an open G and that's how you want to do it okay you want to do it forward with the physical connections and backwards with the mental shapes that happen before it all right why do you want to practice this well the idea is like I said at the beginning of this video all of your scales all right some video titles will be popping up on the screen all of your pentatonics and all of your scales come with these chords when I'm stalling or I can guarantee you anyone who uses the cage chord system which there are a lot of and they might not how do I say this they might not be like physically thinking like caged cage cage cage but they they know that the chord shape of whatever they want will bring you the scale of what you want so if I want um a G major pentatonic and I'm here I know there's a like a c-shaped G chord A G major pentatonic and I'm bringing I'm I'm getting that information from from finding the chord I'm not thinking about where is my Jeep my G major pentatonic I'm thinking where's my G major chord because I know how to translate that chord into a pentatonic if I need a G Major scale I'm thinking about where is my G Major scale excuse my G major chord so I can find my G Major scale that goes with it the chords are the serving tray are the conveyor belt they are the escalator they are the doordash of of the musical we're on the guitar neck they are they bring everything to you so the more you can study your chords both major and minor now I showed you how to do this with major and uh cage you know my cage primer playlist um lessons one and two go over major minor chords lessons seven and eight in my cage primer playlist go over the pentatonic relationship to each chord and link below will also be the major scales that go to each chord um but a lot of people the reason that I'm talking about this is everything I just mentioned are pieces of that puzzle this is the con is the complete puzzle piece this entire shape knowing the individual shapes is okay it's kind of like like Gestalt psychology the sum is greater than the total of its parts right so like so this this here is the big picture that whole shape is the big picture so you really want to know it you want to know it well you want to keep on doing it and you'll see that the more you practice this bigger picture of cage in the guitar neck the better your guitar playing will become all right if you want to learn more about you know the pentatonics that go with these shapes check out my cage primer playlist if you want to practice more with me I'll be doing more exercises and showing you how to develop these maps with minor as well and major uh in underneath your fingertips and make them so easy that you don't the guess or look so you can play songs that have multiple chord changes and bring color to it in your solos and your arpeggios you can check out patreon thank you so much for being here talk to you soon and uh my allergies are kicking my butt and my mouth's really dry so I'm gonna go get a drink and uh I'll see you soon bye-bye

Channel: StichMethod Guitar

Views: 116,536

Keywords: Zeppelin, technique, free, stichtube, Pentatonic, chart, greatful, mayer, Hendrix, pro, mastering, solo, fret, clapton, chord, chops, guitar, teach, Jimi, king, 1-4-5, basic, fretboard, root, method, easy, help, weekly, never, Pentatonic Scale, sheet, john, guide, pdf, Jimi Hendrix, practice, soloing, stitchmethod, fundamental, tabs, stichmethod, dead, Eric Clapton, iMovie, anastasio, Scale, music, lead, teacher, blues, pentatonic, learning, lost, tone, stitch, scale, bb, learn, neverlost, trey, core, home, stich, professional, tricks, licks

Id: qcmT2vfDNtk

Length: 20min 8sec (1208 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 03 2022