CAGED is the triads, double stops, and chord shapes up neck.. It all leads to each other. The full chords all broke down and connected. Joe Pass was a believer of it. Ricks approach is awesome of course but getting kids early on to understand and learn the neck - CAGED is a must imho.. It also helps in learning sweeps.. If only someone had shown me CAGED when I was in 3rd grade.. I see it as a fast track to getting into neck knowledge and chord/scale understanding. Just my 2 cents..

@sooparticular

Жыл бұрын

also pretty much also scales come out of the caged

@danielk301

9 ай бұрын

@@sooparticular I guess you mean scale patterns. Anyway, I agree. I think learning scale patterns in relation to CAGED shapes is much more productive than learning the patterns as such. I know this because I initially made the mistake of not learning CAGED. However, I also think that Rick has a fair point. After all, CAGED can limit one's view of the fretboard in comparison to learning these 3-string patterns all over. CAGED sure is more easily-digestable to a beginner, which is an advantage.

could you do a lesson on dropping your pick without it falling into another dimension?

@RickBeato

5 жыл бұрын

Haha!

@eoghanbishop9745

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@pindakaas42

4 жыл бұрын

It's probably somwhere in the sock dimension...

@crrs2332

4 жыл бұрын

HAhAhA

@crrs2332

4 жыл бұрын

I bet that pick is still in that stolen Alvarez :, (

YES RICK! I was so happy to hear you say to get the CAGED shapes and break them into groups of three strings because that is EXACTLY what I get my students to do when I start looking at chord shapes across the neck 😊 we start with the CAGED concept then do exactly what you do, and learn about the different inversions! It can be tricky at first but it's so satisfying to see them get it and add it to their playing!!

The "CAGED" system helped me A LOT, in the beginning. Learning guitar & all phrasings and inversions of EVERY chord is made easier for beginners who have learned the basic chord shapes& learn to regard the "pointer" finger AS THE NUT. Rick is a "ZAPPA LEVEL" musical interpreter, and he's showed me more *_digestible_* musical info that could be used than anyone else. Peace Out, Rick! Love You!!!

You are possibly the best music teacher on KZread. I've been trying to wrap my head around modes for years and thanks to you and your videos I'm just now starting to understand how to use them

Good god to think I used to have to watch TV instead of stuff like this. Thank you KZread! Long live King Beato!

Hey rick I just want to thank you for making these videos!!!

Triads, arpeggios learning the notes, major scale is where I’m at. Thank you 🙏As always, you have a great perspective

Fretboard Logic book by Bill Edwards is where I first heard of the "CAGED" approach to guitar and the idea was simply to stop trying to force guitar students to learn their instrument the way most other instrument's students do, namely by using the piano as a guide when it simply doesn't apply logically to a guitar's tuning or fretboard. So he came up with a basic approach that anyone who already knows how to play the "cowboy" open chords, C, A, G, E, and D can easily grasp and immediately begin to apply to the rest of the fretboard. It was never intended to be the end all be all. For me, completely self taught by listening to records and copying solos etc, I found it filled in vital missing parts of the neck that were uncharted territory and opened those new scales and chord shapes to add to what I was already doing but made sense of it all as well. Too many instructors are like the Monty Python skit: "How to play the flute, well, you blow in one end and run your fingers up and down the little buttons!"

@Gregorypeckory

4 жыл бұрын

Greatest flute lesson ever!

@charlesmiller3916

4 жыл бұрын

I picked up that same book by Bill Edwards and I am currently starting that book to learn it as part of my learning my guitar neck.

@EdwardT9

3 жыл бұрын

Guitar books from the 80s and 90s are mostly full of learn scales, major, blues, pentatonic etc, noting how the patterns repeat. Learn Open chords and how they become bar chords is a separate deal altogether... when CAGED came in always baffled me because it just wasn’t in these old books, and I’ve never understood its purpose. I now see it’s a learning tool, possibly a step towards what the older books cover. Either way, it all takes time and effort to learn really well, a lifetime in Rick’s case I’m sure.

@guyincognito320

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesmiller3916 2 years later, I bet you never stuck with it

@BricksJamRoom

2 жыл бұрын

Loved that book! (Not talking about the Monty skit)

Much Love Rick, this videos are helping me thru seriously tough times.

I rarely write comments, BUT. This helped me so much, i always thought of learning the triads/caged system ect. too difficult or boring, so i put it off, but the way you explained it in this video i literally sat and did all of the shape/triad excercises on C major for an hour to a 1 chord backing track and instantly felt like i know them by heart. Then i tried it in D and it was even easier, because i knew how the intervals looked on the fretboard. If anyone practices this for all keys its worth the time for sure, so GO TRY IT NOW! I can't thank you enough for this Rick!

This seriously helped open up the fretboard a little bit more for me . Always enjoy your videos and the way you teach. THANK YOU RICK :)

its about knowing each mode in each given shape. I feel as if the CAGED system allowed me to see the relation of intervals between separate chords more clearly. Also I feel as if the CAGED system gives you the ability to highlight chord changes more fluently, rather than playing in a given mode. Just depends what your going for.

Rick, I'm a huge fan. I love your passion for music from the 20th century. Rock, blues, jazz, etc. You cover tons of bases that I wish I had more access to their resources. Again, thanks for your hard work.

RICK FCKIN BEATO!!!! Dude you fully unlocked the neck for me after 21 years of not even trying to know the neck and the last two trying off and on to learn it through caged and my own system. You unlocked the full fret board for me in the first 7 minutes of this video. This is the best and easiest way I have ever seen to learn the neck and actually works. Thank you again Rick. Your channel has become one of the best resources I have ever found in my 23 years of playing the guitar.

Enjoyed this video Rick. After years of just winging it, I have been starting to actually learn the instrument. You seem to enjoy playing it, and you are a very good teacher. Thanks. Love this stuff. Will pick up book soon.

This is brilliant I’m applying all this to bass. I’ve always practiced moving around the neck hitting open strings but these shapes allow such easy transitions as you move around.

just picked up the Beato Book bundle. Thanks for all you do Rick!

Man... bought the Beato Book last year. Finally started going through it this week. I have spent the last two days learning the Major Triad shapes. Stumbled on this video this morning... mind... BLOWN!!!!

Can't say thanks enough for sharing the knowledge! Your tutorials are second to none. Thanks again

Just bought the book. Can’t wait to get stuck in. Thanks Rick.

I love Beato. As a beginner I am so overwhelmed by him. Due to my low skill level after about 15 minutes might as well call this video “Watch Rick Play Scales”! I need to hunker down and learn my guitar better. Rick it’s a home run showing the limitations of the CAGED system. Thanks Rick!!! Am going to budget myself into your club soon.

I am glad your on youtube ,there are no short cuts to playing the guitar.

Got so much enjoyment and learned a few things i just purchased the Book and T Shirt, Keep up the Great Work! :)

Loved the at/above/behind concept.... Learning the scales with that in mind will for sure improve my playing

thank you Rick ! nobody is teaching us everything about guitar and theory and music in general the way you are. GOD BLESS YOU

My challenge has always been how to translate these exercises to real musical situations without making it sound like an exercise. In a way, learning licks is more valuable (to me), but I find I “remember” the licks much better when exercises like these help me to visualize the music theory behind the lick- say an arpeggio for example.

@Kevinschart

Жыл бұрын

what rick is showing is a structure to thoroughly understand the instrument. if you thoroughly understand the instrument learning little licks and things comes naturally.

Hi Rick, the way I learned the CAGED system is basically what you described later in your video. I think the main problem with the CAGED system is how it is generally taught. I learned to do the basic chords, then to break them down in triads (which are subsets of the CAGED chords), then add pentatonic scales & etc. The thing about playing above at and below the note for me was how I made sense of the G chord (below), the D chord (at) and the E chord (above), the Justin Sandercoe channel/webpage does a great job of explaining it really well. There's also a video of Guthrie Govan talking about how it works and he explains it in a similar vein to the stuff to said. Enjoyed the video tho, lots of great ideas for the woodshed!

I learn so much from you rick..thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Rick you're just incredible, my mind is blown all the time watching you. Your knowledge is just nuts.

I wish I was at the stage where your smooth transitions made sense enough for me to follow along. Caged system gives me frame of reference. The three string option looks easy enough, reminds me of power chords, just ll over the neck on different sets of strings instead of just the 3 lowest strings. This helps me understand some odd looking song tabs and might make rhythm guitar more nuanced. I think this is best learned once the caged system is understood, not as substitution

Eye opener. Learning it like this makes you concentrate on the triad. The BEATO System. 135, 351, 513. Awesome. Thanks!!!

I lways prefered triad inversions for guitar as most chords you play are constructed of a triad plus another note in the root usually so it helps you see the construction of the chord and its reltionshiop to other chords as you're playing it. Love your stuff Rick.

dang, missed it live, your videos are incredibly helpful. thanks Rick

I just bought "The BEATO BOOK", (WITH TODAY'S DISCOUNT!) WOW!!!! SO MUCH INFORMATION, IN THAT PDF!!! I NEED TO GO BUY A WHOLE REAM OF PAPER, AND BUY MORE PRINTER INK, TO PRINT IT ALL OUT!!! ~500 PAGES!!!! THANKS FOR SO MUCH SHARED KNOWLEDGE!!!!

@joseceraia

4 жыл бұрын

I am new and do not even know how to buy that Beato book

@manny75586

4 жыл бұрын

@@joseceraia there is a link in the description of this video. It really is a great book if you are or aspire to be a theory nerd

Thanks Rick! I found this to be quite interesting, explaining the groupings of three notes together was really helpful in understanding your overall approach.

That is great news! Congratz Rick on the WMTSG videos! Some of your most entertaining and advertising attractive work!

Absolutely love these lessons! I'm curious if there might be a playlist hiding somewhere with all these lessons in an order that would synch up with the book's progression. Feel like that would make the learning experience that much more intuitive :)

Just found your channel. Thanks for doing what you do!! Stoked!! I’ll buy the book soon

You are the man Rick ... I'm back into playing music again.... great thanks to you

Cool video. Thanks for all the work you do. I enjoy your videos.

Rick, just grabbed a copy of the Beato Book. So excited to get started!

Thanks for a thoughtful critique of this system. I only heard about it after I had already learned the neck and how it is connected, so I’ve never really connected with why CAGED is so polular. But I think it has created profound connections for people who are tied to open chords and use a capo to change keys. I personally found it just confused things, as you demonstrated in your initial demo - I can’t get used to calling the D barre chord at the fifth fret “the A shape” cause its a D chord and so on. It’s like going backwards in how I understand the guitar. Thanks!

@Chris-MusicTheoryAndFretboard

2 жыл бұрын

CAGED is a shortcut to get people to think they've learned the neck when they really haven't.

First coherent discussion of this I’ve heard

What a lesson, thanks man. Now only hard work lies ahead.

Rick, I don't always agree with you, but I always listen to you. Thanks.

Absolutely love your videos

Most helpful video for me ever. Thank you.

I came interested in finding out Ricks opinion on the Caged system, stayed right till the end as usual, this guy is phenomenal!!! So accessible...

I desperately want to learn guitar from Rick, because I love his content. But every time I watch one of these videos, I can't help but feel this is an advanced player explaining basic topics in ways that other advanced players are able to agree with. In other words, I don't know if the intended audience is ever walking away with that A-HA! moment, there's just affirmation from people who already know the concepts being discussed. Not meant to be critical, just some hopefully constructive feedback that I know you'll probably never see because you've said a billion times before you never read KZread comments. Ok, I'm off to shake my fist at the wind.

@5000rgb

3 жыл бұрын

Rick does give you a lot to chew on, especially if the material is new to you. The information is coming at you pretty fast and as soon as one bit gets by it's hard to get back on the same page. As valuable as these videos are I think a book is still important. I haven't checked out Rick's book but I'm sure it's one of the many good books. I guess the hard part is knowing which book is good. I wish I could recommend one but I'm not familiar with what's currently available. I do feel Rick is spot on that the CAGED system has some limits. It can be a great tool but sometimes people don't go as deep as they should and end up with a limited understanding. And when you go deeper you are moving beyond open chord shapes. They can still be thought of as part of the CAGED system if you want but the CAGED system is becoming less relevant.

@kalleandersson926

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, this is stuff for senior players

@oliverclark8460

3 жыл бұрын

I have watched a lot of his videos and its my own fault for not doing any research whatsoever but I still don't know what the fuck a third is or the circle of fifths? Lmao

@systemsoversymptomsvisionw9806

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a beginner as well, and it seems hard to find "advanced beginner" music theory etc. That is, you can find stuff that teaches you the basics about intervals etc., and beginner stuff that tries to teach you a part of a song or a lick or strum pattern (to keep you interested and motivated) but then you try to learn more and end up on a video like that above - that assumes you already know a bunch of stuff that you don't yet know. There are some "music theory" online courses that seem to advertise they are fulsome, so I'm thinking of trying that (not for guitar specifically, but I think that might be okay). There's an older British dude with a video like "Music Theory in 30 minutes" or something (which is great) and he offers a full course for what seems to be a reasonable price.... again, not for guitar. Given this video above, though, I'm thinking that we may as well start off with a beginner CAGED course or book, because regardless of whether it is the best method or not, we have to start somewhere and all these advanced guys still seem to have tried caged themselves, lol.

@5000rgb

3 жыл бұрын

@@systemsoversymptomsvisionw9806 When I learned guitar I learned moveable chord shapes and recognized the shapes as closed position versions of the open chords but I didn't learn it in terms of the CAGED system. I can definitely see the CAGED concepts and how they can make music theory much more accessible to a beginner. Just do us all a favor....don't put a capo on the fifth fret and play the "C" shape and tell people you are playing a C. You will be playing an F. Your bass player and keyboard player any guitar player without a capo will appreciate it. I think that's my beef with a lot of the caged material. It's guitar centric. The biggest advantage of music theory is that you can tell other what you are doing. If your understanding is strictly limited to guitar you will have limited yourself.

one of the best guitar lessons great playing examples

Awesome video Rick. Thanks!

Thank you for all the lessons, I'm gonna get your book.

Great lesson and killer fluid playing!

FIrst time the CAGED thing ever made sense to me. Thank you!

That trademark dramatic pause at the beginning Chills

This is a great video for everyone who already knows what he is talking about!

I just wanted to comment. I know it might be hard to believe but I have watched every one of your videos from start to end. Half the time I have no idea what you're talking about. I started playing guitar at 50. I'm a couple of months younger than you. I always wanted to learn to play guitar but life got in the way. Thank you for what you do. You inspire me!

Amazing lesson. Looks like I need that book too...

Rick this is Superb and very informative.

Very Cool with these shapes you see the possible notes more quick.

Nice one Rick, love your LP classic, mines a 2005 great guitars

I totally agree about 3 strings at a time. I was guessing that was where you were going. Great info.

Rick. I really appreciate all of the effort that you put into your "What Makes This Song Great" videos. I woudl love to see you do Grand Funk Railroad's "Sin's A Good Man's Brother". So many young people only know of Grand Funk in their later years when they played mostly pop. This song is the quintessential garage funk punk song. Great bass, driving drums, that awesome "Messenger" compressed guitar sound and of course Mark Farner's piercing vocals.

Man, this has just opened my brain like I’ve needed for a while. Learning scale shapes, arpeggios, and the caged system just never connected everything for me. I quit playing for a while and am getting back into it. I’m so excited to use this info

@gooders7366

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Collins yeah exactly for me too- it’s like he’s helping us push into places we never knew how to approach, like what direction even to know where to explore? :)))

Rick! U just got shout out on that pedal show! So cool. Well deserved. Your smartest musician in my news feed lol.

Great stuff Rick, trying to catch up on all of these and remember what little theory have been gathering dust in the corner for too many years... keep it coming!

Your pretty amazing... the skill you've developed in the loving spirit of the way of such devotion that shows... like many others in the humble times not being subjected to the error and unrest of others of the trials of life, which I see as true freedom being the time free from the stress of everyday life which music has a way of soothing, along with good friendly relationships..

Really enjoyed this. Brilliant. Practical. Earthy.

Great stuff Rick, thanks!

I agree with Rick's point here---you need to be able to visualize it all over the neck I had the fortunate chance to meet Pat Martino at the Jazz Standard after a show last year. His advice to me was always know where your thirds are as you vizualize what you're playing over the neck. As a bass player who plays guitar as his secondary instrument this advice was invaluable. I've done it for years on bass and its now making sense on guitar

Glad all of your "What Makes This Song Great" videos are up now Rick. Excellent news.

The CAGED System shapes connect like Legos up the neck. The forms/shapes are connected. You fill in the forms with notes from the major scale and pentatonics. You can transpose as needed. It's a logical system to see notes on the fret board, triads within scales, create more complex chords and embellish them.

I had guitar lessons for about 8 months, he taught me the caged system. It definitely layed out the neck in an understandable way for me, and it was a useful tool for me once I stopped lessons and had to approach new situations by myself. It sounds like what you're saying is to learn the scales & arpeggios around each of the caged shapes? IE - if you're on the low E string, G shape is "behind" E shape is On, and D shape is (roughly) above?

@Chris-MusicTheoryAndFretboard

2 жыл бұрын

Rick probably has forgotten why he knows the shapes he knows. In my opinion, the reason why Rick can play all these triads and their inversion on 3-string combinations is because he knows the notes on the guitar. This is how musicians on other instruments learn. They learn their notes. CAGED is for people who think learning notes is too hard. It is true that if you try to learn notes on all 6 strings at the same time, it can be daunting. I always recommend Single String Playing before Position Playing. Turn the guitar into a linear instrument (like the piano) by "eliminating" 5 strings and get a deep understanding of just one string. Learn the notes on the entire string in all positions. Then move to another string...

Just bought ur book! thanks for the discount code!

Wow! Learned a lot in the first 5 minutes🤗

Now you can see how Steve Howe comes up with infinite number of never ending interesting melody lines. Always loved Howe’s style.

I disagree with the CAGED shapes not being "connected". The way I learned it is that each CAGED shape is contained inside a pentatonic position, so if you know your minor/major pentatonics and how to connect those up and down the neck, you can visualize the CAGED shapes inside them, as well as the complete diatonic scales around them. Maybe I'm missing something but thinking about it that way has helped me a lot.

@hammarnas

5 жыл бұрын

true

@pickettmandi

5 жыл бұрын

I haven't mastered it but that's how I do it also.

@fennarios

4 жыл бұрын

On the same path here

@michaelcameron2292

4 жыл бұрын

Caged system is excellent and shows you everything Rick just showed here Caged connects all scales and chords in one cohesive system You dont learn these things overnight though

@PaulJonesy

3 жыл бұрын

I find it useful in a similar way, knowing the root position all over the neck means you can forget the different pentatonic positions as really there is only one pentatonic scale, then you realise the position of the intervals from that root position, realise how to play the minor from that same position, it’s all valuable stuff.

Hello Rick you are a great player and a great teacher...

....Love your show Rick...Love your book too....

I have just discovered Maestro Beato. I prefer his packaged, edited videos to the streamed ones because there is a bit of fooling around and wandering around on the streaming videos. But make no mistake, this man is a gift.

After this video, I had to buy your book. Thanks in advance Rick!

lots of great information...now time to practice, practice and then some more practice.

sorry it’s off topic but I can’t stop smiling since you said What Makes This Song Great with Genesis I personally hope it’s something before or from trick of the tail, but anyway, really awesome channel thank you. You actually helped a lot with my matura paper, my friend and me, we recorded an EP and I mixed it and got everything from your channel.

@Phil_Trujeque

5 жыл бұрын

Zoli Reedcourt Genesis’ _In the Cage_ from ...On Broadway is an _AMAZING_ track!

@timothyryan6018

5 жыл бұрын

@@Phil_Trujeque In the Cage is awesome...I also love the grind of "Back in NYC" - its heavy-metal Genesis...

@zolin6840

5 жыл бұрын

my ultimate pick would be supper’s ready but it’s a littlebit long

@landocal001

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Zoli, look up the Band Geeks on you tube. They cover Lamb Lie Down! Shivers dude!!!

@Phil_Trujeque

5 жыл бұрын

Foster Shampine I’ve seen several of their copies - those guys/gals kick serious rump!

Just bought the book! Cheers man!

I heard some licks from Crossroads....and even a Van Halen cathedral there...amazing how those things come together. You appreciate the music more when you see its roots.

CAGED helped me to see chords easily, but I also quickly found its usefulness was constrained to standard tunings and the tonalities that it tended to emphasize were either Ionian or Aeolian, maybe other modes but in the root position. For a while I switched to 4ths tuning like Stanley Jordan and with the symmetry of intervals across all strings in 4ths tuning, the 3NPS was the only system that could map out the shapes horizontally and vertically. And when I went back to standard tuning, the 3NPS was what stuck, and I found it easier to connect positions located above or below the particular positions in the 3NPS mapping on which I happen to be.

Amazingly useful and fun to do.

Wow that riff at 19 20 or so. Yeh rick Thankyou. It reminded me of cathedral when eddie used delay and volume. But all picked. This is very much and eye opener to me. I will try to put more effort into this approach Im mostly a blues kinda guy. This video is jusy super inspiring to me. Again thankyou from Vancouver island

the caged system is very popular with inmates learning the instrument

great demonstration

Back when I was at GIT (MI now) in '80 or '81 Joe Pass showed me the CAGED system vs the 7 position classical system I was using. If I remember correctly the classical system theory was 1 position for each of the 7 notes in a major/minor scale. I use both now. (50 years later) But I always thought that if it was good enough for Joe it most certainly must be good enough for me ...

I had already learned caged, but when I took a moment to learn the triads and inversions that Rick demonstrated here and combined those with the 5 scale shapes I had already been using… holy cow, my playing is so much more flexible.

Sorry I missed your livestream...watching the replay now and will catch up on the other videos you've recently uploaded...that 'Fleetwood Mac' one is calling to me...you rock!!! 💗💗💗

This is amazing Rick! When you were moving the triads in the circle of fifths it reminded me of Pat Metheny warming up before his solo concert! This is to me the only way to really unlock the guitar and gives one the ability to play all music from Bach to Bebop!

awesome content Rick! love listening to your playing too. When you refer to the exercises as being in the Beato Book, I sometimes struggle to find them. Is there any chance you mention the page or section number in future please?

I've made more break thru's following Rick in the last year than the previous 20 years, anyone who's starting out, forget tab! Learn theory and learn the neck - there's only really one shape - the diatonic scale, wish I knew that when I was 17, and learn the circle of 5ths and your 75% of the way there already - there's no question Beato is the musical king of KZread - its all I the Beato book

very inspiring，I also used the three strings to practice one octave scale for all the modes in diatonic scale and melodic minor. But I will use the root note as start and my fingers start from the left or the right of the root note. Then I use these two to connect the whole pattern within six strings.

Great video, looking forward to the "What makes This Song Great DT style :)

Excellent approach! I think you should do one on simply learning the NOTES on the full neck. Then, this higher level of chord shapes will make more sense. I wish I had learned the notes (by sight alone) much earlier in my guitar playing life. It makes everything easier. Thanks again Rick!

@Chris-MusicTheoryAndFretboard

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree completely. CAGED is a shortcut for people who think learning the notes is too hard. But the reason why Rick can play so effortlessly is because he knows his notes. The secret is to focus on one string at a time. Turn the guitar into a linear instrument like the piano. Then add one string, then another. That's why you learn a 6 string guitar before learning a 7 string guitar. But no one makes a 1 string guitar....