Demystifying Triads and CAGED: Unlock the fretboard and improvise freely

This video deconstructs the CAGED system and presents it using easy-to-understand animated building blocks, starting with TRIADS, adding on PENTATONIC SCALES, and finishing with the MAJOR SCALE MODES. This is everything you need to unlock the fretboard and get started improvising.

► Keywords: CAGED system, triads, guitar lesson, pentatonic scales, music theory, major scale modes, Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Phrygian

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00:00 - Introduction & CAGED System overview
02:38 - Triads, simplified
05:15 - Triad inversions
07:47 - Modifying fingerings to change triad types
08:31 - The CAGED system - altering notes to change chord type
09:50 - The CAGED system - the pentatonic layer
11:44 - The CAGED system - adding the modes
12:40 - Using the CAGED system for improvisation

► Thanks again to Dave DiCenso, Jeff Gilman, and Jake Shapiro for the exit music "Sea Horses" from the Kilgore Trout Sessions.