Chords for Using CAGED to learn major scales

Hey everyone in this video
I'm going to try to explain my understanding of the major scale and how we can use the cage system to learn
Major scale theory and apply it to the guitar fretboard
So let's start by explaining just what a scale is a scale is nothing more
really than a collection of notes that are revolve around and point to one really important note called the tonic and _
The scale is named after that tonic for the for example the a major scale has the note a as its tonic
now the difference between a tonic and a root note is that the tonic note is a reference note of a scale and the
Root note is a reference note of a chord a major scale is so important
It's going to be the foundation for all of your knowledge your theoretical knowledge on the guitar
So if you can understand the theory behind the major scale that's going to be your jumping-off point to understand
More difficult theory and be able to apply it to the guitar
_ _ _ Every major scale that you're going to play whether it be C sharp B flat D a
G is going to be built on the formula whole whole half whole whole whole half now
What does that mean well let's look at the a major scale on the fretboard here?
I have a B C sharp D E F sharp G sharp and a
_ _ _ Now the difference between or the space between of two frets on the fretboard is called a whole step
_ _ So you've got two whole steps here a half step whole whole half whole whole whole half
_ _ This is the formula of the of the major scale this happens to be the a major scale _
Now every scale contains some form of the letters a b c d e f and g and these can be sharp
Or these can be flat now this particular scale has C sharp F sharp and G sharp
It has three sharps when you raise a note for example from
_ C
Up a fret that's called C sharp, but you can also lower it or flatten it
So if I have D, and I lower that
Note it's going to be a D flat and C sharp and D flat are the same note.
That's called inharmonic notes now
Because every scale has to have one of each letter.
I can't have a B D flat D.
That's why I say C sharp
_ _ Okay now all these notes point to the tonic as I've stated before that means if you're
Ascending going from D.
E.
F sharp G sharp.
You're not going to feel finished until you hit that a
Same thing applies to descending if I play E D C sharp B
You're going to hear an audible pull that makes you want to play that a note
Now the problem starts arising on the guitar when you can play the same note in so many different places on the fretboard
Because basically it's a matrix of notes
For example the a you can play in 13 different places on a 24 fret guitar and that spans four octaves
_ _ For example, this is your lowest note a a a and a that's four octaves _
Now that's a lot of notes just by itself, but once you add all of the notes of the major scale
Then this is what you get _ and that's hard to learn without having some sort of
System and what people have come up with is called the caged system _ now
_ Everybody when they start first learning guitar learns the basic chord C a G E D up
At the top of the fretboard or at the bottom of the fretboard here
Open chords, so let's just take a look at the D shape
All right, don't worry about what the notes are in a D chord
Just look at that shape you can take these three notes and move them up and down the fretboard
So let's do that.
Let's move it up to the 12th position
You're not playing a D chord anymore right now
You're playing a C chord because this is C.
This is E and this is G.
That's a C triad
You can do the same thing with the E shape.
Let's move that up to the 9th position
_ You've got C _ _ _
Right, you've got E.
You've got G. _
That's the same chord in a different
position in a different shape and
_ _ You're all you're doing is taking those original open chords that you learn when you first started playing guitar and moving them down the fretboard
G shape shape 3 same thing a shape move that down _
three frets and you've got a C chord _ in a different position at the third position and
_ Now you're open C.
So this is what people are talking about when they talk about caged
Same chord different shapes different positions on the fretboard
And this is a great way to learn how to play chords up and down the fretboard
The problem is most people stop there, but we're not going to what we're going to do is take that formula whole whole half
Whole whole whole half and start building a major scale around each of these shapes
So you're going to have
One major scale but five different shapes.
So let's start with C.
This is your C chord
Let's play instead of playing on one string.
Let's play across the strings _ _
This is what you're going to get from the here to here is a whole step from _ _
C to D
so C D E F G A B C
whole whole half whole whole whole half and so on and
This is the C shape or shape one major scale C major scale
Now let's move to the a shape or shape two
_ These are your two tonics and the a shape or shape two
Let's go whole whole half whole whole whole half C D E F G A B C
You can do the same thing with the G shape now this spans two whole octaves
From G.
I'm sorry from C to C from C to C
You _ can do the same thing with the E shape and with the D shape
So when it's all said and done, you've learned five different shapes for the same
_ _ Scale _ and this is what they look like all together _ _ _
C shape a G E D the caged system of playing guitar
but not just for chords for major scales also and this is great to learn these for _ _
Really moving all up and down the fretboard and actually just in learning the notes of the fretboard
So this is what you have.
I hope this has explained a little bit what caged is
And can serve as a starting point for you to explore this a little bit more at just remember
That the tonic is the important note and when you start exploring these shapes _
Try to find different ways to get from tonic to tonic from here.
You can go from here to here
And go up you can go C D E F
I'm sure that's not a C there, but you get the point from shape to shape position to position
Learn the five shapes first and then start practicing going in between each and every one of them _ and there you go