What's a simple way to remember the caged scale and chord combinations?

[Lindsey]

It there a simple way to remember which Caged scale shape belongs to which chord?

Like a mnemonic. I used this for the order of modes for example:
I don't particularly like modes a lot.
The first letter stand for the mode name.

 

[Christian Schulze]

I am not avare of a simple technique to remember them to be honest. I associate CAGED shapes with pentatonic shapes...and pentatonic shapes with major scale patterns.

 

[Lindsey]

I am not avare of a simple technique to remember them to be honest. I associate CAGED shapes with pentatonic shapes...and pentatonic shapes with major scale patterns.

So I just have to suffer through it

 

[Christian Schulze]

So I just have to suffer through it

Rite of passage XD

I guess. It comes with practice. Remember this is not a race....but a long ass marathon

 

[Andrew Milner]

What is an easy way to remember them you ask? Practice, I answer . Seriously, you can't get around this. I tried for about a year. I finally understood you can't, now just gotta work on motivating myself to actually practice ).

 

[Forgetabull]

So something i do is to use partial chords, based on the cage system.

Ie. if you take the D shape, I will typically use the top three strings to move that shape up the neck, sometimes I use the G shape where I only use the top and bottom two strings (so three and four are muted).

When doing this, I need to know where the root note in the chord is so I can be playing the correct partial chords.

I hope that makes sense.

 

[Andrew Milner]

So something i do is to use partial chords, based on the cage system.

Ie. if you take the D shape, I will typically use the top three strings to move that shape up the neck, sometimes I use the G shape where I only use the top and bottom two strings (so three and four are muted).

When doing this, I need to know where the root note in the chord is so I can be playing the correct partial chords.

I hope that makes sense.

That's...actually a pretty cool idea. I remember tripping and falling in that solution when I was back in high-school but sorta forgot about it until you mentioned it .

 

[juiceellish]

CAGED is essentially an easier way to think of the pentatonic scale shapes, plus a few other tricks for chords. You get pentatonic shapes, Major & Minor chord shapes, and Major & Minor arpeggio shapes. The letters of CAGED mostly match up with the major chord in that specific pentatonic shape. So, the basic minor pentatonic shape will have the open G Major chord shape as its major chord. The trick for finding/knowing what minor chords go with each shape is also in the CAGED name. So, if the G shape is the minor pentatonic, the note after the name of the shape is the root of the minor pentatonic shape: E minor pentatonic/open E Minor chord shape/G Major chord shape...all in the same pentatonic shape. And it continues for the rest of the shapes. The arpeggios are essentially the Major/Minor chords, just individually picked. Love the CAGED system.

 

[Lindsey]

CAGED is essentially an easier way to think of the pentatonic scale shapes, plus a few other tricks for chords. You get pentatonic shapes, Major & Minor chord shapes, and Major & Minor arpeggio shapes. The letters of CAGED mostly match up with the major chord in that specific pentatonic shape. So, the basic minor pentatonic shape will have the open G Major chord shape as its major chord. The trick for finding/knowing what minor chords go with each shape is also in the CAGED name. So, if the G shape is the minor pentatonic, the note after the name of the shape is the root of the minor pentatonic shape: E minor pentatonic/open E Minor chord shape/G Major chord shape...all in the same pentatonic shape. And it continues for the rest of the shapes. The arpeggios are essentially the Major/Minor chords, just individually picked. Love the CAGED system.

I had to reread that a few times but that's a trick I need to remember. Thanks for sharing.

It reminded me of something I came across a while ago but forgot about, it's basically the same thing.
In the minor pentatonic pattern the first note in the pattern is the rootnote of the minor chord.(em)
If you want to play it over a major chord, The second note of the pattern is the root of that chord.(G)
Here's the video where it's explained Link

 

[Muz Malek]

Application too. Learn as many existing songs/riffs/arpeggios & try to spot the patterns used. Not all of'em of course are purposely written based of a system or mode. Some are intended, some are coincidental.

A commonly used one is Sweet Child O Mine intro. Which shape of CAGED is used in that riff?

Cheers!