The diagrams below show the seventh chords based on the CAGED system. These are the most common of the dominant seventh chords and like the Caged minor chord you should make sure you know these very well. Dominant seventh chords contain four notes and are the same as ordinary major chords but with a flat … Read more
Most teaching on the CAGED system focuses on major chords and scales. It’s pointless going to all that trouble learning a system and then only using a small percentage of it’s versatility. The whole point of making the most of a method like this is to get you learning the fretboard and visualising the notes … Read more
Making your guitar solos sound professional The Caged system isn’t just about relating chord patterns to the major scale. In fact as far as I’m concerned it’s the least important. A good guitar solo is more often centred around chord tones rather than scales. Sure, scales are an important part of it but the difference … Read more