9/1/2023 0 Comments Caged scalesListen how each chord tone sounds while played over a C chord. One particularly great routine involves chord tones as well as the note directly above and below, in a circling manner like Example 4. I like to exhaust each pattern by developing melodic exercises that highlight chord tones, strengthen the ear, and increase muscle memory. Check out the C form arpeggio that doubles as a killer sweep-picking exercise in Example 3. Notice how this chord shape exists in the C form scale pattern.Ī great way to see and hear chord tones in a scale pattern is to play the chord as an arpeggio. Seeing and hearing the scale tones numerically goes a long way towards helping your ear understand their unique qualities against the chord (in this case C).Įxample 2 illustrates the C form barre chord grip at the 12th fret. Example – the note after C is D (major 2nd from the root), followed by E (major 3rd), F (perfect 4th), G (perfect 5th), A (major 6th), and B (major 7th). On the neck diagrams, the root note, C, is represented by “R” on the neck diagram and all subsequent scale notes are described numerically by their respective distance from the root note. The scale pattern is a comfortable fingering for playing major scale notes surrounding the C chord shape at the 12th fret. In this lesson, we’ll check out the “C form” scale pattern, barre chord shape, and arpeggio. The Root, 3rd, and 5th (and 7th if playing over jazz chords) degrees of the scale make up the chord, but we’ll stick to the triad notes here to keep it simple. This concept will always sound more musical and make your ideas melodically and harmonically interesting. These sturdy notes are “chord tones” and in most music genres melodies follow the chord changes by strategically using them. You can play scales up and down, forwards and backwards, and even execute some entertaining licks, but more importantly you must know where the best and strongest notes are to end phrases or otherwise you’re dead in the water. Here’s the lowdown – for each barre chord shape, C, A, G, E, and D, there’s a corresponding major scale overlaying the same fingerboard territory that includes the notes of the chord shape. With the CAGED system, you’ll learn five scale, chord, and arpeggio “territories” on the fretboard that connect like jigsaw puzzle pieces AND where the important chord tones are in each. The word “CAGED” is actually a pneumonic device representing the C, A, G, E, and D barre chord forms, each existing in one of five unique scale patterns and used as the framework for melodic soloing. Mention CAGED Scale System to a guitarist and most will think it’s a cryptic musical term or acronym for something. For this current lesson, I want to get back to basics with a necessary (and often overlooked) exploration of the CAGED Scale System. Hello TrueFire students and guitar fanatics! It’s been a while since my last Riff Journal lesson from the inaugural issue where we explored neo-classical style playing with a face-melting rendition of Mozart’s Turkish dance “Rondo”.
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