The promise of this blog-within-an-email-client has alluded me since April 2021, despite my excitement. Simply, I forgot it existed.
My last post was about knowing whether one is an intermediate guitarist. Since then, I took lessons for a couple of months before I had a hand injury; I've joined a band (since ~June this year) which is going.... well, it's going.
And my guitar skills have improved. I've finally cracked the CAGED system, which immediately opened up the basics of Triads to me. CAGED is a simple system which is just, frankly, poorly taught by practically everyone I've watched a lesson on it from.
I understood that the lesson was in the name. The C, A, G, E and D chord shapes up and down the neck of the guitar, but being able to quickly run down a fretboard finding all of the - say - C chords was beyond me. Then one day I watched a random video about a guitar lick based on triads, and the guy casually mentioned "and this is the D triad in the C-shape here" and BOOM 🤯
It's still early days, of course, but now I'm in my next stage of learning. My fingerwork is still poor, but playing regularly is helping. Learning is, as always, a joy when it's enjoyable.
My last post was about knowing whether one is an intermediate guitarist. Since then, I took lessons for a couple of months before I had a hand injury; I've joined a band (since ~June this year) which is going.... well, it's going.
And my guitar skills have improved. I've finally cracked the CAGED system, which immediately opened up the basics of Triads to me. CAGED is a simple system which is just, frankly, poorly taught by practically everyone I've watched a lesson on it from.
I understood that the lesson was in the name. The C, A, G, E and D chord shapes up and down the neck of the guitar, but being able to quickly run down a fretboard finding all of the - say - C chords was beyond me. Then one day I watched a random video about a guitar lick based on triads, and the guy casually mentioned "and this is the D triad in the C-shape here" and BOOM 🤯
It's still early days, of course, but now I'm in my next stage of learning. My fingerwork is still poor, but playing regularly is helping. Learning is, as always, a joy when it's enjoyable.