View Caged System Minor Background. Review the diagrams below to make sure you understand the five basic minor chord shapes in the caged system. Most teaching on the caged system focuses on major chords and scales.
Critics of the caged system feel that it overly simplifies the guitar. Most teaching on the caged system focuses on major chords and scales. (the keys to the fretboard).
The caged system for guitar is a method for understanding the fretboard by dividing it into five overlapping chunks.
The key is to relate all forms with the same name to each other. What is the caged system? (i'll explain why they're in that order later.) the idea is that each of those five open chords uses a layout. Now that he has already covered the major caged shapes, nick kellie demonstrates the minor shapes for the caged system.