I think I'm in agreement with you on the CAGED system, RR.  Those triads are more focused and your lesson helped me see how close chord relationships are in a given key, as well as how to link forms up/down the neck.  

Hey Robert. Thanks for following up with my question.

I studied the caged system after working on your Finding the Notes and Triad courses. Although I found the caged patterns a common sense approach to organizing the fret board, I find that learning notes first and triads second is a more efficient way of manipulating the neck. 

Speaking for myself, once I learned how to find single notes on the fret board fnding the triad was relatively easy for me. From that point it wasn't hard to find where the rest of the intervals are. I play blues mostly so I'm constantly looking for the major 3rd and b7, and lately the 6th and 9th, so using the same approach they're also fairly easy to find. They don't come to me intuitively, but your system seems to be more efficient and effective for me. 

Caged, is something everyone should have a look at and decide for themselves. If anything it will you give you another perspective of how everything connects. I just found root notes and triads got me away from seeing the fret board as spescific shapes to seeing the neck as one entity.

anyhooo.....

Hola.....from the Dominican!

Ivan, are you suffering a holiday in the D.R.?

Ivan, good to hear your comments. 

There is nothing wrong with seeing CAGED on the fretboard, but it's not a silver bullet to learning anything.

My general advice is:

1. Learn the major scale formula (the whole and half steps).
2. Identify the intervals in the major scale (1 to 7).
3. Practice the major scale on the fretboard by saying out loud the intervals as well as the note names.
4. Identify the major and minor triads from the major scale, and practice them (harmonization).
5. Practice scales to tracks and/or a metronome.
6. Be creative with sequence patterns, string skipping, harmonization, tempos, etc. Practice scales in a variety of ways.

There are so many ways you can practice a scale, but focus on making music, and creating chords from the scale.

Do NOT simply run a scale up and down as fast as you can, and nothing else. That isn't music. Always, always focus on making music and being able to create something with what you learning. 

If you practice something only one way, you're only going to become good at one thing only. What's the fun in that?

This sounds like a wise plan!

Chat #2 now up -  https://www.masterguitaracademy.com/lesson/chat-2-triads-how-i-get-my-guitar-tone/

I missed this chat Robert. Tons of great info on triads and especially tone.....which I'm endlessly searching for. 

Thanks for posting!

Triads are always interesting... as is tone... Just fired it up now to check it out. Thanks!

Ivan, it's not a live chat. Chris got that impression too. Do I need to change the name from "chat" to "talk" or "video update" or something? 

I got a bit rushed at the end - my camera was running out of battery life... 

Let me know if you want something more about tone for the next one.

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Ivan, it's not a live chat. Chris got that impression too. Do I need to change the name from "chat" to "talk" or "video update" or something? 

I got a bit rushed at the end - my camera was running out of battery life... 

Let me know if you want something more about tone for the next one.

No I don't think you need to change anything. I thought I thought I missed this when I was away on vacation.

Maybe on the next one if you could talk about volume vs master volume would be cool. Keeping in mind if they work differently between both tube and digital amps.

Thanks

Robert

I think I was a bit mixed up in thinking it was live... perhaps because previously, a way back your chats were live... I got it now fer sher!

I apologize if I created any confusion. I think all is good no need to change anything.

It's fun for me to do gear videos since I've got way too much gear. 

Was this one helpful?

I think IRs and no speaker cabinet is new to most. It would be prudent to show how to mic an amp too. 

I could also do a huge pedal demo where I show case all my pedals! That would be a bit insane. I don't have enough cables to hook them all up at the same time. 

Yes....mic placement would be a cool one to talk about.

And of course, a showcase of your pedals should be fun!

Chat #4 now up -  https://www.masterguitaracademy.com/lesson/chat-4-practicing-to-backing-tracks/