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CAGED shapes
We want to start making music with this new chord shape, but
we're not quite ready yet. We want to make enough movable forms
to play our favorite, workhorse progression, the 16251. We have
our I chord, the E major. Let's make a ii chord in the key of
E major now, an F# minor, from a *moveable* form, using the CAGED
system. Which open position chord will we use to build the moveable
form? We're going to use an open position D minor.
First, let's start with the end we want: the F# minor:
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--7----| Finger 4
--6----| Finger 2
--7----| Finger 3
-------| (Mute)
--5----| Finger 1
Now, how the heck does this come from an open position D minor
form? Let's see. Make this shape in open position
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--3----| Finger 4
--2----| Finger 2
--3----| Finger 3
--0----|
-------|
This is an open position D minor chord. So, the movable shape
we make from it, by adding the F note and taking away the open
A...
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--3----| Finger 4
--2----| Finger 2
--3----| Finger 3
-------|
--1----|
...is called the D CAGED form.
Let's make our vi chord, which is a C# minor in the key of E
major. We're actually going to do a C# minor 7. But, remember
from last lesson that C# minor 7 is just another "flavor" of the
C# minor chord. One can substitute for the other. Here's the full
fingering for it:
|----|
|-5--| Finger 2
|-4--| Finger 1
|-6--| Finger 3
|-4--| Finger 1
|----|
You make this shape by making a bar with your first finger across
the 4th fret. This is the minor version of the A CAGED form, because
you create it by sliding up the open position A minor form.
Now we have the I chord (E major), the vi chord (C# minor),
and the ii chord (F# minor). What's missing? Yup, the V7 chord,
which is a B7 in the key of E major. Here it is:
|---|
|-4-| Finger 1
|-4-| Finger 1
|-7-| Finger 4
|-6-| Finger 3
|---|
Here, the first finger makes a kind of mini-bar across the B
and G strings.
Which CAGED form is this? This is the dominant 7 version of
the open position G form. To see this, make this shape:
|---|
|-0-| (no finger)
|-0-| (no finger)
|-3-| Finger 4
|-2-| Finger 3
|---|
It's not the fingering you usually use for the G7, but it *is*
a G7. We just turned it into a movable shape by adding our first
finger.
We now have four different movable shapes, which come from the
C, A, G, and D open position forms.
We're going to use these movable shapes in our 16251 progression
in E major. Here it is:
||---------|-------|-------|-------||
||o--5--5--|-5--5--|-7--7--|-4--4-o||
||---4--4--|-4--4--|-6--6--|-4--4--||
||---6--6--|-6--6--|-7--7--|-7--7--||
||o--7--7--|-4--4--|-------|-6--6-o||
||---------|-------|-5--5--|-------||
Here are the Power Tab and MIDI files for this:
Power
Tab
MIDI
In the next lesson, we'll bring in the E caged form to do a
16451 progression, and we'll explore other chord stuff around
the 5th fret.
Page 3, Breaking out of open position - Intro to CAGED
Page 1, A Bit o' Review - The Blues Injection
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