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Circle of Fifths

Tap any key to explore its signature, diatonic chords, and guitar positions.

CAGEDBAF#EC#BG#F#D#DbBbAbFEbCBbGFD

C major

relative: A minor

no sharps/flats

Diatonic Chords

ICIIDmIIIEmIVFVGVIAmVIIBdim

CAGED Positions

Five interlocking shapes that cover the entire guitar neck. Tap a shape to isolate it.

357912CAGED

Concepts

Read up on the ideas behind your exercises — in your own time.

  • 4ths and 5ths as Double Stops
  • 6ths on Guitar
  • Advanced harmony for guitarists
  • Advanced Rhythm with Dotted Notes
  • Advanced voice leading on fretboard
  • Aeolian Mode
  • Alberti Bass Introduction
  • Arpeggiated Accompaniment
  • Arranging for solo guitar
  • Barre Chords: E-Shape and A-Shape
  • Block Chord Comping
  • Blues Scale
  • CAGED Major Chord Forms
  • CAGED Minor Chord Forms
  • CAGED Shapes for Rhythm Guitar
  • Chord function: I-IV-V-vi and ii-V-I
  • Chord inversions and slash chords
  • Chord melody basics
  • Chromatic Double Stops
  • Common chord progressions
  • Connecting CAGED Shapes Across the Neck
  • D Major Scale
  • Diatonic harmony on guitar
  • Diminished and Augmented Triads
  • Dom7, maj7, min7 chords
  • Dorian Mode
  • Eighth-Note Rhythm and Subdivision
  • Expressive Articulation: Legato
  • Extended Chords (9ths, 11ths, 13ths)
  • Extensions: 9ths, 11ths, 13ths
  • Fundamental Rhythm in 3/4 and 6/8
  • Fundamental Strumming Patterns in 4/4
  • G Major Scale
  • Genre study: jazz basics
  • Genre study: neo-soul/R&B voicings
  • Groove, Pulse, and Internal Time
  • Harmonic Minor Scale
  • Interval Ear Training — Thirds and Sixths
  • Introduction to Intervals
  • Ionian Mode
  • Locrian Mode
  • Lydian Mode
  • Major and Minor Triads
  • Major Scale Construction
  • Middle C reading
  • Minor Pentatonic Boxes
  • Mixolydian Mode
  • Natural Minor Scale
  • Octave Bass Waltz
  • Octave Shapes on Guitar
  • Partial chords and top-string voicings
  • Pentatonic Major Scale
  • Pentatonic Minor Scale
  • Phrygian Mode
  • Piano five-finger setup
  • Picking Hand: Alternate & Economy
  • Power Chord Patterns with D-Shape
  • Power Chords and Movable Shapes
  • Reharmonization on guitar
  • Rests, Ties, and Anticipations
  • Rhythm Notation and Counting Basics
  • Scale Degrees & the Relative Pair
  • Scale Sequences for Speed
  • Scale Speed Ladder
  • Secondary dominants and borrowed chords
  • Seventh Chords
  • Shell voicings and compact shapes
  • Sixteenth-Note Rhythm and Subdivision
  • Strumming in 3/4 and 6/8
  • Suspended and Add Chords
  • Syncopated Groove
  • Syncopation and Offbeat Accents
  • The CAGED System Overview
  • The Diminished Sound
  • The Static Double Stop
  • Three-Notes-Per-String Position Sweep
  • Triad Inversions
  • Triad inversions across the neck
  • Tritone sub and chromatic approach chords
  • Voice leading with triads
  • Walking Bass Line
  • What Are Double Stops?