It’s easy to fall into the trap of regarding the CAGED shapes purely as chords. After all, where would we be without our E- and A-shape barre chords? But just as some pentatonic shapes fall more ...

But even with no barre or capo, it’s beneficial to know the CAGED shapes all over the fretboard. The following examples show how major 7th, minor 7th, dominant 7th, and minor 7b5 chords can be ...

The idea of this technique is to rearrange these five shapes as barre chords and move them ... don’t have to play every note of the chord. Hendrix rarely would! This reggae groove passes through all ...

If you already know the five essential open chord shapes C, A, G, E and D, then you are already halfway there, because the CAGED system simply moves these shapes around the neck as barre chords.