The BEST System For Amazing Guitar SOLOS! (finally sound like a PRO)

In this lesson, I want to show you the 3 most powerful guitar solo systems. We work with the CAGED system, we check out 3 note per string scales, and we also talk about intervals and fretboard visualization. These approaches will make your next guitar solo much better already! Don't forget to download all your files for this lesson on Patreon and start shredding TODAY :)

00:00 Intro
00:35 System #1
04:25 Advantages/Disadvantages
07:08 System #2
08:21 Advantages/Disadvantages
10:33 System #3

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[FedericoMatarazzo]

this video is GOLD. Two years of school and I didn't get the CAGED they way you just explained it in 2 minutes. Sick!

[Pook]

I started with CAGED and loved the way it interlocked like LEGO, with its close relationship to pentatonic scales and chords/arpeggios. Later on I got heavily into 3NPS with its beautiful symetrical patterns and ease with which to play at high velocity. I combine them freely at this time depending on my musical needs at that moment. This is a great video.

[noobasaurusrex]

This is probably the best "caged" explanation I've seen. 🤘

[davidjimenez]

Bernth is one of the best teachers that we have now.

[hirakjyotipathak]

Your explanation is next level.... I understand the things that I was struggling for years ✨ thank you

[JeffJeno]

Being an online learning guitarist I’ve made no sense of the CAGED system til this video. Breakthrough!! Thank you!!!

[kimrapley]

Starting out in scale study, one should commit to memory the five positions of the pentatonic scale. By doing this your ear will train and muscle memory will eventually guide you into useful melody. The next step is to understand modes, the circle of fifths is a good study to grasp modal concepts and for transposing keys. Once introduced to the circle of fifths, ad the two diatonic notes that are missing from the pentatonic scale you are now familiar with. Keep track of the root note locations, challenge yourself to combine shapes as you improvise melody and run up and down the scale. There are many paths you can take when you know the positions and their shapes, so try to make the same melody using a different path. You will become more familiar with your fretboard as time passes and find yourself making mental notes in your discoveries as you play. The caged system is a limited tool that is worth understanding but does not replace a more complete approach that starts with the relationship of the notes pertaining to key and root. It takes about an hour to learn to play through a pentatonic scale position with confidence, there are five positions and the patterns are the same for both major and minor (just separated by three frets). Applying the two added diatonic notes is a piece of cake in the weeks that follow. Within three months, you should be able to transpose (easy) and use modes effectively (harder). You will discover that you don’t always have to get the modal notes right in your improvising to sound good. Sometimes mixing modes can make your music better so don’t be too afraid of the passing notes and getting them wrong once in a while because they are not necessarily wrong in theory, they just aren’t the modal notes. For example, substituting the Dorian note for the Aeolian note in a lick will hardly set off alarms in most cases, and it is common place to play minor over major or major over minor. None of this is hard, it just takes time.

[Ken_Dalton]

Wait wait wait.. Im playin guitar 20 years, for the last couple I been tryin to understand the caged system but u made it so easy in 2 mins.! Hell yeah, thank u Bernth 🙏 u are my new grand wizard 😂 big shout out from Ireland 🍀🤙🏼

[marcioaugusto]

One of the best videos that I've seen about "practical-theory"... Amazing... Hit the bull's eye!!!
Thanks from Brazil!!!

[johncostigan]

I have played for 55 years and I find your videos refreshing and encouraging. Thank you, Bernth!

[ellysonjonesmusic]

Funny thing: when I started playing (about 30 yrs ago), that third mysterious system is kind of the first thing I learned: recognizing intervals between positions on the fretboard. After that, because of a Frank Gambale video mid nineties, I started with the 3-notes-per-string method. Which btw I discovered that it is easy to remember that if you imagine that if you'd have an unlimited set of strings up and down, the same pattern of seven finger positions magically repeats itself: 1-3-5, 1-3-5, 1-2-4, 1-2-4, 1-3-4, 1-3-4 and 1-3-5 again. Finally, after all these years, I never looked into the CAGED system.. will look into that now. Haha.

[druwk]

I’m not a shredder, but I really appreciate how you lay out the CAGED system, and your approach to bringing Music Theory to the Fret Board.

[johnbritz]

These videos are priceless, I hope some of us get a chance to show you the new generation of shredders you’ve helped create

[donniekak]

The problem with soling based on “shapes” is that you’re stuck playing parts that are idiomatic to the guitar.

Taking musical lines from other instruments and figuring out fingerings for guitar is where a lot more fresh ideas come from.

[sauerkrautoneverything]

Since I have multiple guitars that are tuned differently, I naturally started thinking about interval relations. For me, this had to happen to be able to improvise over any jam track with any tuning. It seems more of a universal language because it doesn't force people to tune their guitars the same.

[ssmith]

I've been playing and thinking in intervals for years and it makes playing so much more fun. It's actually how I think of songs and why when you change keys but not whether it's major or minor and the song is still recognizable. The interval is what you hear in music and creates the song, not the notes or chords

[datenshima]

Zwilling

I've been neglecting learning the cage system all this time, but after hearing you explain it, It made me realized how much I was missing out, but now motivated to learn it and also the other topics u talked about Thanks to you Bernth!

[thgir]

I was "raised" on 3nps and combined with improving my ear through interval exercises I'd say it's serving me pretty well in terms of visualizing the fretboard. I never learned caged but I certainly associate with seeing similar chordal shapes throughout scales...

[MarcoPoo]

There are so many video's online trying to explain the CAGED system.. Most try to explain it as if they are J.Hendrix himself and just expect everyone watching to know music theory.

You did a perfect job!
You took your time to explain the 'simple' things, because they aren't as 'simple' for everyone.

Thank you for the great video!

[samiam]

I like how you keep switching the diagrams left to right right to left...keeps attention span at bay just full on concentration is needed to keep in flow. Good job dude!