5 Pentatonic Boxes for Major & Minor Soloing - CAGED System!

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Hello friends,
And welcome to another lead guitar tutorial. In today's session we will use our CAGED system to discover how each of our five pentatonic scale boxes can be used in both major and minor soloing. The basic concept is that a given major or minor chord can be played in five positions on the fretboard - C,A,G,E,D - surrounding each of these chord positions is both a major and minor pentatonic box. Each box can be played in two locations the fretboard, one major and the other minor. Let's get started!

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[adamchafetz]

Really good lesson. Great licks, and I luv the diagrams.

[roberttrepanier]

Finally someone that can explain without getting confused and so well organized CAGED is the secret based on the key. The lights went on this time like a puzzle THANK YOU

[sober-southoftheborderever]

This is a fantastic lesson. The only thing that confuses me a bit are the box numbers. Even thought I understand your logic behind it, usually I am used to the convencional box numbering system. But a great lesson nonetheless. Thank you a log. I am happy I become a patreon. Cheers from Brazil! I am 70 and still learning! Music is infinite!

[satriasilatmuda]

Hello friends, my name is Aldo, I'm from Indonesia. You play guitar with unlimited skills. Keep up the good work, friends.

[sujayanarula]

This is my current practice routine which I referred to by another instructor who had posted the diagram, thank you for reinforcing the same in detail.

[inigosy]

OK, but I'm not putting my fingers on A minor, just wanna make it clear OK.

[Pablo-ftun]

it makes sense, but it took some effort. Before i thought of CAGED as five different shapes - rather than positions. And the shapes are usually considered in reference the the major cowboy chords. hence shapes. But this way here makes really sense once you think and rethink it and write it all down. thx - really a useful lesson.

[a.od-reszki]

This is the only pentatoniv lesson that i understans 😅

[liamguilfoyle]

Just found your video, thank you I believe I’ve got it now ❤️

[guy_incognito]

Whoah! Five pentatonic boxes? What a coincidence! ;-)

[rdesutter]

Good video. I've been trying to correlate these scales to the CAGED system, so I watched this video and while it does a good job showing the major and minor scales are 3 frets away from each other... it doesn't touch on which of the 5 pentatonic boxes is which CAGED system. I'm hoping you can expand on this idea and do a video where you correlate the boxes with the CAGED system and explain which goes with which.

[chanchaljacob]

One thing I am not able to wrap my head around and would be helpful if some one can explain this. Take Box 1. I understand that it is the box in which A Major chord gets played in C Shape and there we find the A Minor pentatonic notes with the given fingering. What I do not understand is, when that fingering is moved 3 frets lower, why is it called "Major D Position"?

[Al-Madhloom]

It's a bit fast but I get it and THANK YOU! Def helped! 👏🏽 👏🏽 🎸 🤘🏽

[VGlover]

Great lesson the caged system broke down beautifully preciate cha

[kumarasamypinnapala]

Wow amazing you are the real master brother 🎸🙏

[Funkfreed]

So what I got is that:

-follow/memorize the major pentatonic shapes
-correlate the shape by following dcage(3 frets back of minor) for major and caged for minor respectively

What I didn't get is how did he find out that fret 12 is where he would start for a minor pentatonic scale. The only thing I am aware is the famous g shape for major where the index is the marker for what you want to play i.e. a minor pentatonic starts on 5th fret low e and that it's also the c major penta g shape

[kevincrum]

hopefully this is correct because i learned it and its now locked in lol now i just have to fig out what to do with them

[m.vonhollen]

I take the 5 CAGED Minor Pentatonic “boxes” and just add in 3. So it yields this: 1-b3/3-4-5-b7.

[bennybear]

So each of these can only be played in two places on the fret board

[wengchungtham]

I finally understood...Thanks a Million!!!