The CAGED chord shapes can be a great way of learning the geography of the fretboard. The shapes, both major and minor, occur in every position and key just like the pentatonic boxes. In fact ...

In the minor pentatonic scale every interval is either a two-fret (a major 2nd) or three-fret (a minor 3rd) gap. This is the best known minor pentatonic scale shape, shown here in A. Play the shape ...

As every string has the same number of notes, three-notes-per-string shapes lend themselves to patterns very well. Here we have five approaches based in the A Minor, or A Aeolian shape, position 1.

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The CAGED chord shapes can be a great way of learning the geography of the fretboard. The shapes, both major and minor, occur ...