CAGED chords
- Goal
- Five open chord shapes that tile the whole neck: major, minor, and seventh.
- Time
- 1 hr 28 min
Steps
- The five open shapes
- Moving the shapes up the neck
- Minor shapes
- Dominant sevenths
You need: A guitar in standard tuning and a metronome (every exercise page has one).
CAGED chords
- CAGED names the five open major chord shapes: C, A, G, E, D.
- Slide them up the neck with a barre to play any major chord.
- Change one note for minor; add one for a dominant seventh.
You need
- Can hold the guitar and strum.
- A metronome (every exercise page has one).
Exercises
- 00 · 3 minInterview✓Tell your tutor what you know about this topic and what you want from it.
- 01 · 20 minThe five open shapes✓Get the open C, A, G, E, and D chords ringing clean and switching at 60 BPM.
- 02 · 20 minMoving the shapes up the neck✓Slide shapes up the neck with E-form and A-form barres, and find one chord in five places.
- 03 · 20 minMinor shapes✓Lower one note to turn major into minor: open Am, Em, Dm and the minor barres.
- 04 · 25 minDominant sevenths✓Add the seventh: open C7, A7, G7, E7, D7, the movable forms, and a twelve-bar blues.