14+ Caged System Minor Chord Shapes Pics. Most of the shapes for the minor stay relatively untouched bar the c and g shapes which need to be slightly more modified to compensate for the open strings. Converting the five basic major chords in the caged system into minor chord shapes.

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This involves moving the chord shape up the neck and using a barre to play what was the open strings in the original chord. Thanks for continuing the tutorial on the caged system. In each diagram below you can see the scale shape and the chord shape (made up of the red and green dots) that is surrounded by the scale shape.

Now that you know the basic minor chord shapes in caged, it's time to take a step up the rung to the minor chord arpeggios.

Obviously, many scale systems contain chord shapes, not just caged scales. When it comes to seventh and extended chords (i.e. It's pointless going to all that trouble learning a system and then only using a the thing to realise is all non seventh major and minor chords are triads that just contain three notes. Now we will look at the system using minor chord shapes.