Hi there, Thanks for reading my blogs, hope you find them useful. Feel free to pass them on to people who will find them helpful 🙂 In the 7th part of this CAGED chord system we’re looking at sus2 chords. Sus2 is short for suspended 2nd. It means that the minor 3rd or major 3rd […]
Hi there, Thanks for reading my blogs so far, hope you’ve been finding them useful. Feel free to ask any questions, ask for a topic suggestion for a future post! In this blog we’re going to look at the fantastic sounding Sus4 (sus short for suspended) chords. The idea behind a Sus4 chord is that […]
Hi there, In this 5th installment we’ll look at CAGED Minor chord shapes. Often in a rhythm guitar part you will come across the E and A shapes more often than the others, but the other shapes can be really useful in many situations. It’ll also give you more variety in terms of chord voicings […]
HI there, In this 4th chapter of the CAGED system, we are going to look at Dominant 7th chords. Often, these are abbreviated to A7, B7, E7 etc. These are wildly used in popular music and are you quintessential ‘blues’ chords. It’s quite common for tabs online to provide you with the wrong type of […]
Hi there, In this 3rd part of the Caged system we are going to look at playing Minor 7th chords up the neck in all different CAGED shapes. This will give you lots of options when songwriting as to what ‘voicing’ to go for. Also if you are learning a song and the tab/transcription says […]
Hi there, In the first blog on the CAGED system we talked about how you can move your basic open major chords up the neck to produce 60 different voicings of the same chord. You can now apply the same process to your minor chords and also your extended 7th chords. This will give you […]
Hi there, The CAGED system is a way of integrating all your scales, chords and arpeggios together in a way that’s holistic and organised. In simple terms there are 5 key chord shapes, C, A, G, E and D.These 5 shapes allow you to play any type of chord in 5 different positions on the […]