CAGEDrules! E-Book

Robert "Landy" Landinger

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: CAGED rules!
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 49

Beschreibung

How can you learn your guitar's fretboard without thinking so that you can play melodies, chords, and solos to always fit the style musically? Robert "Landy" Landinger, author of this book, was looking for a corresponding method since he first started playing the guitar. He focused on guitar greats like Jimi Hendrix and Django Reinhardt and discovered the CAGED system which relies exclusively on the basic chords. With this volume, there is finally a book for everyone to learn this ingenious system quickly and effortlessly and master the classic chords on the guitar. Whether you're a singer-songwriter or a folk, metal, jazz or blues guitarist, this book will give you the tools you need to become a CAGED specialist.

Leseprobe

Table of contents

I. Introduction

1. CAGED rules!

2. Regarding this volume

3. This is CAGED

4. Why is it called the„CAGED" system?

5. The C major scale at the beginning

6. How a chord is formed

7. Chord inversions

8. Enharmonic change

II. Major chords an major shapes

1. Major shapes: Major chords with root on the open strings

2. The 5 major basic shapes

3. Open C-shape

4. C shape barré

5. Combining shapes

6. Exercises

7. Major arpeggios

8. Learning scales - Fill-me-up!

9. Major pentatonic scale

10. Major scales

11. Major cadence

12. Triads with diatonic extensions

13. Playing songs with major chords

III. Exercise concepts

1. The note of the month

2. Learning the fretboard with natural tones

3. Diatonic circles

4. Chromatic circles

5. Learning the circle of fourths and fifths on the fretboard

6. Major arpeggios in the circle of fourths

7. Major chords on the fretboard in the circle of fourths

Acknowledgements

Thank you for the sensational help and support for this book.

I would especially like to thank:

Ma und Pa, Martyna, Ursula Paulick, Claudia Badouin, Andy Hiermeyer, Max Bronski, Raimond Milewski, Thomas Vonier, Claus Vester, Henry Robinette, Jimi Hendrix, John Frusciante, Marc Ribot, Abi v. Reininghaus, Werner Kolbeck, Hendrik Müller, Tobias Eich-horn, Martin Maertens, Shawn Lane, Joe Pass, Pat Martino, Stephane Wrembel, Kim Beblo, Dennis Gomez, Mike Holleman and Raffaele Daniele Quarta.

Explanation of the fingering chart

Erläuterung der Grifftabelle

I. Introduction

CAGED rules!

From the 1920s the guitar was considered one of the most popular instruments. Since then, many blues, jazz and country guitarists have written wonderful songs that are still popular to this day. From the mid-1950s, the electric guitar with Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry; the Beatles or the Rolling Stones to the defining instrument of Rock'n Roll.

Guitar virtuosos such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Joe Passe, Eddie van Halen, Steve Vai and others have taken the music to new heights with their individual guitar techniques. Their sounds, guitar solos and rhythm guitars continue to enchant listeners to this day.

The guitar heroes of the rock and jazz era had one thing in common: they seldom had a solid education. Learning to play the instrument was limited to learning technique from other musicians, accompanying music from records, or getting a few lessons from a neighbor. Because some of these heroes died very young, they didn't have time to practice the same chords or scales for years.

Ever since guitar has been available to study around the world, music and guitar techniques have become more and more intellectual. As a beginning or advanced guitarist, you often have the feeling that you don't know where and how to start learning to play the guitar.

There must be a guitar concept that you can learn within two to three years and with which you can play the different styles.

At some point I came across the CAGED system while practicing on the guitar. Since it hardly gets any attention in many books and studies, I had quickly forgotten it again. However, as I began to study Joe Pass and Pat Martino, I noticed that both guitarists used the five basic chords and five activities, respectively, to get clarity on the fretboard. Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, John Frusciante and many other well-known guitarists always refer to the five basic chords of the CAGED system.

It doesn't matter whether you play chords, expand chords or improvise: A look at the five basic chords is enough to get clarity about the fretboard.

With the CAGED principle you can certainly not explain how the guitar greats thought or how they approached the fretboard. But it can simplify your own approach to understanding the fretboard. No matter how complex music sometimes seems, many things are simpler than you think.

CAGED rules!

Robert„Landy" Landinger

Regarding this volume

This volume focuses on the major basic shapes C, A, G, E, and D. The five shapes are the basis for everything you do on the guitar. Starting with the major scale, you will learn how triads and shapes are created.

Once you have learned the shapes and are able to play a few songs with them, you can use the „Fill-me-up" method to learn major pentatonic scales, major arpeggios, and the major scale. The „Fill-me-up method" always refers to one of the five shapes, only sounds are added to a shape.

Whether you're familiar with the staff, harmony, or reading music or not, you'll find clarity on the fretboard and inspiration for your guitar playing here.

Metal, hip hop, jazz, jazz or children's songs: the harmonic basics and thus the structure of the chords and the scales are always the same. The techniques and sounds differ, the theory of harmony and the architecture of the guitar are identical.

This book is a workbook. Each of the exercises is intended to contribute to a deeper understanding of the CAGED system. For this reason, it is important to do the exercises long enough to be able to play them without thinking.

This book is not a harmony textbook. However, all chapters and exercises are explained with the help of the theory of harmony and transferred to the fretboard. Much is explained graphically and with reference to the five basic shapes. It lets you play guitar intuitively, by ear, and have fun.

Classic harmony textbooks explain connections with notes, partly on the keyboard. This book tries to fill this gap. Harmonic connections are made visible on the guitar's fretboard.