Simple lesson of the CAGED system
This is a short and simple lesson for beginners on guitar, You may start and look at the "Guitar books for beginners" and it will show you countless lessons on chords when you just want to skip that stuff and ROCK!!
Easy way to skip the annoying chords you feel obliged to learn at the start is simple, You learn 5 chords. C-A-G-E-D, Now these shapes have a distinct shape in them and that if your barre the chord up to the next fret you get a new chord sound, and you can do it with each Chord and you will be able to play alot of different sounds and through time it will become 2nd nature to you.
Barring a chord is simple, all you do is, the fingers that you are using to get your chord...move it up 1 fret and the strings that werent being held down ie. Open strings, place your index finger across the next fret covering all the strings.
The O means its an open string. Open strings are strings not being played, so if you need to barre them, place your index finger across each string on the 1st fret. If you continue moving your fingers up 1 fret at a time you get a new chord sound.
The X's mean you do not play that string
Here are a the diagrams for each chord in the CAGED system.
C Chord
A Chord
G Chord
D Chord
1 comment:
Great post and thanks for the lesson. I have always wanted to play the guitar but I just cant do it. Hope it will work this time. May be I'm just useless, when it comes to guitar-playing!
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