View Caged System Major Scales Background. The explore the importance of learning five positions when playing scales and arpeggios. The major scale is the mother of all scales and your reference point for all other scales.

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The caged system makes use of 5 basic open chords to help you better visualize your guitar's fretboard. I'm interested in learning more but i've never heard about caged for pentatonics. The caged system was holding me back.

Nick kellie demonstrates the major scales in relation to the five shapes of the caged system.

The caged system is a method used to help you relate scales to chord patterns. The 5 caged major pentatonic scale shapes. Learn the major scale in all 5 positions of the caged system. Another way of stating the previous paragraph is that a form won't always be the lowest form.