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== Recap - Open Position Major Chords ==
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== CAGED - One Major Chord Laid Across Fretboard ==
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Here's a C Major chord across the entire fretboard.
== Any Major Chord! ==
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Here's G Major. We start on the G shape instead of C in open position, but the sequence is the same: you can see the CAGED shapes appear in order throughout the fretboard. Once you know where any G note is, you can determine what CAGED group it belongs to, then find all its other chord shapes on the fretboard, allowing you to jump around quickly.
== Minor Chords ==
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CAGED works equally well for minor chords, but it needs to use the open position minor chord shapes. We've seen E Minor, A Minor, and D Minor, but what about C Minor and G Minor? These unfortunately don't have easy shapes for open position. However, we can still learn their shapes and plug them into the CAGED method.
== How Do We Use This? ==
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CAGED is useful for several reasons. It is best considered a roadmap of the fretboard. Instead of seeing 6 strings and 24 frets, we see 5 fret shapes that overlap at the edges, vastly reducing the number of notes on the fretboard.
* It helps us know which chord shape to use once we find a root note.