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The easiest way to navigate the fretboard is to use a few basic shapes as landmarks. These form an imaginary map which you slide along the neck based on the chord or key.
Everything you play -- chords and scales, riffs and licks -- can be related back to this map, known as "CAGED".
You don't need to memorize dozens of individual chords, scales, or note names. Instead, you memorize one basic shape and relate everything else to it, first visually, eventually musically.
How to find your way around the neck
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| Start with what you already knowSome basic chords, scales and licks live at the same place as these two common shapes. |
| Fill in the gapsThe "consonants" (C, G, and D) live in between the "vowels" (the A and E shapes). |
| Use it to build your vocabularyThis is some text that will make you want to click here. |
| From shapes to tonesHow to make the leap from thinking in shapes to thinking musically. |
