The CAGED System for Guitar

By James Shipway

Guitar players: want to nail your guitar fretboard, scales, improvisation and soloing skills? This step-by-step guitar method (with over 50 minutes of video content) teaches you how to do exactly that using the CAGED System! 

In this method book you’ll discover how to use the CAGED system to unlock your guitar fretboard, overcome the fretboard ‘roadblocks’ which prevent most guitar players from ever truly mastering the guitar neck, and attain a new level of fluency with essential scales like the minor pentatonic, major pentatonic, major scale and natural minor scale, as well as commonly used modes and arpeggio shapes. 

With 40 sample guitar licks (with video demonstrations) to help you build your guitar soloing vocabulary, step-by-step practice routines and ‘speed learning’ techniques, you can use The CAGED System for Guitar to begin mastering your guitar fretboard in a fraction of the time that it takes most other players.  

What this book has to offer

The CAGED System for Guitar takes you on a step-by-step journey showing you how to 'unlock' the guitar fretboard for new levels of freedom and creativity when you play. In the book you'll discover:

  • The five CAGED chord shapes to use for organising and finally understanding your guitar fretboard. Learn how to memorise these quickly and easily using ‘speed learning’ techniques, circle of fourths exercises and ‘visualisation’ approaches for a solid fretboard foundation
  • How to ‘build’ scale shapes and patterns around CAGED chord shapes for unshakeable fretboard knowledge and confidence. Use this method to find a shape for any scale, in any key, anywhere on the fretboard and play guitar with freedom at last!
  • 40 sample CAGED licks (with video demonstrations) show you how to go from playing scale shapes to playing killer licks and solos all over the fretboard. These licks show you the tastiest bends, double stops, scale runs and more, to help you build your soloing vocabulary and start using each of the CAGED scale shapes like a pro (practice required...)
  • 'Secrets' and exercises for connecting patterns - improvise and solo all over the entire guitar neck (no more getting stuck in 'box patterns')
  • How to build an endless number of great lick and soloing ideas. Use the techniques and practice methods described in the ‘Vocab Accelerator’ chapter to grow your soloing vocabulary, lick library and soloing skills
  • Step-by-step practice routines to follow. How we practice something has a big impact on how well we retain it, and are able to use it. That's why I give you the exact fretboard exercises to use in order to thoroughly and efficiently assimilate everything shown in this book. Follow these and see the results roll in!
  • Over 50 mins of video content demonstrating licks and approaches used in the book plus 13 downloadable backing tracks for you to practice along to

BITESIZE, EASY TO DIGEST LESSONS EXPLAINING AND DEMONSTRATING HOW THE CAGED SYSTEM WORKS AND SHOWING YOU HOW YOU CAN USE IT TO MASSIVELY IMPROVE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE GUITAR

BECOME A BETTER SOLOIST, IMPROVISER AND ALL ROUND MUSICIAN BY UNDERSTANDING YOUR INSTRUMENT BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE

STEP-BY-STEP PRACTICE ROUTINES AND 'SPEED LEARNING' TECHNIQUES THROUGHOUT THE BOOK FOR EFFICIENT AND PRODUCTIVE PRACTICE SESSIONS AND GREAT RESULTS AND PROGRESS!

UNDERSTAND EVERY CONCEPT EASILY WITH SUPER CLEAR LANGUAGE, EXPLANATIONS, SAMPLE LICKS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND PRACTICAL EXERCISES, ALL WITH NO MUSIC READING NEEDED!

AVOID THE CONFUSION MOST GUITAR PLAYERS EXPERIENCE WHEN IT COMES TO LEARNING AND REMEMBERING CHORDS, SCALES, MODES AND ARPEGGIOS BY APPLYING THE SYSTEMATIC 'CAGED' METHOD FOR FRETBOARD MASTERY

OVER 5O MINUTES OF BONUS VIDEO CONTENT DEMONSTRATING THE 40 SAMPLE LICKS AND 'SPEED LEARNING' TECHNIQUES COVERED IN THE BOOK. ALSO 13 DOWNLOADABLE BACKING TRACKS TO USE IN YOUR PRACTICE SESSIONS

A Word From The Author

“If there's one thing I wish I'd discovered earlier in my guitar playing career, it's the CAGED System! You see, like most players, I had no logical method for organising and understanding the guitar fretboard, which meant years of confusion and slow progress whilst I tried to figure it all out on my own...

Once I was able to apply the systematic approach to learning the fretboard which I show you in this book, I became quite literally a different player. Instead of stumbling around in the dark trying to find my way around the guitar ...I could focus on playing music and making my playing sound the way i wanted it to. It freed me up like you wouldn't believe!

That's why, I wanted to write The CAGED System for Guitar...

I've put a lot of thought into this book, and I believe that I've created an easy to use package which almost any player can use to see serious improvements in their guitar playing (practice is required of course!). You see, this book doesn't just give you information, most of which you can find anywhere - it gives you a step-by-step system to follow, packed with practical exercises, musical examples, and some of the best practice and 'speed learning' methods I've discovered along my guitar journey.

So, if you ever feel 'stuck' on the guitar like I did, or if you want to improve your fretboard knowledge even just a bit, I reckon that you'll find what you need in The CAGED System for Guitar.

So if YOU find your lack of fretboard knowledge holds you up

  • You find yourself losing your way when you try to improvise
  • You hit that 'wall' when you play and don't know where to go or which notes will work
  • You find yourself playing the same licks and ideas all the time (frustrating...)
  • You want a step-by-step, easy to use method for thoroughly improving your fretboard knowledge
  • You're sick of being stuck in the same little zone of the guitar neck
  • You want to boost your knowledge of the essential scales and modes we use on guitar and learn how to use them...

...then grab a copy of The CAGED System for Guitar and begin transforming your playing and guitar skills!

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