CAGED: Interlocking Pentatonic Scale Forms
Posted by: Phillip in CAGED, Guitar Lessons, Scales, guitarThe 5 pentatonic scale forms fit together like a jigsaw puzzle on the neck of the guitar. Where one form ends, the next one begins. I have created an image to illustrate this point. Click here for a direct link.
This may look kind of crazy if you don’t know what you’re looking at, so it may be easier to take things one step at a time. In the next lesson, I’ll talk about connecting two patterns and shifting between the two.
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You know what I’m going to try? Take one of my guitars and put masking tape over all the wood on the fretboard, and mark out all these positions… and go buck crazy playing the scales until it’s burned into my brain.
Yeah, I think I’ll do that… in lieu of buying one of those light-up fretboard instructional guitars..
Nice work, there’s some good lessons here, thanks for taking the time.
HEy Jason, that is what my old base player used to do with masking tape on his base, so he could learn the names of all the notes. Anyway, I am going to refer my blog readers here, this is a good post.
Nice lesson. I usually teach the 5 major scale CAGED shapes, then show the pentatonic shapes inside each shape. Aside from practicing the 5 shapes and associating them with the related chord, I like to have them visualize the shapes away from their guitar. You can also try playing intervals in each shape which burns it in better than just scale steps, like going up in 3rds for example.
The other thing that burns them in is staying in one place and changing keys so that the shapes shift from one pattern to another.