You're going to. Oh, Welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I'm Desi Cerna, author of Frontboard Theory, Guitar Theory for Dummies, and more.

This podcast features free guitar lessons that focus on music theory for guitar, including guitar scales, chords,

progressions, modes, composition techniques,

improvisation, and more.

The lessons are geared toward intermediate level players on up.

You can follow along on either an acoustic or electric guitar.

Bass players can take away a lot from the lessons too. Today's podcast episode is a previous recording in which I explain how the so-called caged

cord system is used to play

arpeggio patterns and cordon versions on the frontboard. You also hear how the

caged-cord system is used in familiar songs. This lesson is based on my book Frontmore Theory, Chapter 3. You're going to learn all about the guitar

cord caged system. With the caged system, you take common open forms and change them into bar chords which you can move around the

guitar neck. Also you'll break these forms into arpeggio patterns, chord voicings, chord inversions, and different chord

shapes and chord fingerings. fingerings. You know, of all the different types of chords you can play on the guitar fret board

did you know that they can all be traced to one of five different forms either C C, A, G, E, or D. You probably already learned these chords in the open

position, but I bet you didn't realize that you can convert all of these chords into bar chords and move them around the

neck. Also, each one of these chords can be played as an arpeggio pattern and these

arpeggio patterns can be broken up to create all kinds of unique

fingering and shapes, chord inversions, and chord voicings. Most people that are trying to learn how to play new

chords or trying to learn how to play fancier rhythm parts think that they need to learn

really, really complex chords, but actually

they just need to learn variations on common chords.

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