Originally Posted by: iiiiiii-0

Hi I'm trying to practice the CAGED system so I can be a better musician. I've looked at the series here and I have to say it seems a bit too rushed and only skims the surface, therefore I used Youtube to learn more about this.

CAGED has pros & cons. It's essentially a way to visualize all the interconnected, integrated chord tones across the fretboard. It's a result of triad theory applied to the structure of the guitar (6 strings & standard tuning). It can also help locate scale degrees around chord tones.

But it can also be confusing, with information overload. And it's potentially confusing for beginners to think they have to use, for example, a C chord to play an E chord, & so on for all the possible major chords. It's hard to play some of those shapes & they are not all practical. Also, it's not easily applicable to minor chords.

I think a more musical approach is to visualize each major or minor triad, how & why it's formed, where it can be played. This helps to use smaller units avoiding info overload. It also encourages learning the musical alphabet location. And to see how the little shapes can be expanded into the larger shapes that cover the fretboard.

My collection of triads & inversions is here.

https://www.guitartricks.com/collection/triads-and-inversions

I hope to use my upcoming CAGED tutorials to help bridge the gap between those approaches.

Hope this helps!