CAGED system for guitar

modified April 4, 2020.

There’s a pattern to memorizing chords up the fretboard pretty quickly as long as you know these basic chord shapes: CAGED

All of the following are C chords: (Start with C)

 0 ======
   ||||C|
   ||C|||
   |C|||| AAAAAA
   |||||| ||||||
 5 GGGGGG ||AAA|
   |||||| ||||||
   |G|||| ||||||
   G||||G EEEEEE
   |||||| |||E||
10 DDDDDD |EE|||
   |||||| ||||||
   |||D|D CCCCCC
   ||||D| ||||C|
   |||||| ||C|||
15 |||||| |C||||

All of the following are F chords: (Start with E and add one fret)

 0 ======
   EEEEEE
   |||E||
   |EE||| DDDDDD
   |||||| ||||||
 5 CCCCCC |||D|D
   ||||C| ||||D|
   ||C||| ||||||
   |C|||| AAAAAA
   |||||| ||||||
10 GGGGGG ||AAA|
   |||||| ||||||
   |G|||| ||||||
   G||||G EEEEEE
   |||||| |||E||
15 |||||| |EE|||

It’s always in a sequence C A G E D. Try adding two frets instead, it’ll be the same pattern!

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