The same C in two shapes
CAGED joins the familiar C, A, G, E and D grips. Today two neighbouring places for C, not an atlas.
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CAGED does not add five new chords. It is five familiar open shapes which, once moved and with the root pointed out, show the same chord in successive regions. Today it is enough to see C in two places. Five boxes are a map for later.
Entry requirement: the names on the E and A strings from the previous lesson. The root says which chord it is after the move.
What the Shape Translator draws
The Shape Translator has no setting in the address. On the screen pick Key C, Note names and Position / shape 1. Click I. The tool highlights the chord tones and draws the grip nearest to that box. In the current region the grip takes the root from string 6, 5 or 4 and lays out an E, A or D shape. Full C and G barres are awkward, so the Translator does not pretend they are easy. A diminished chord does not get a fake simple barre.
Go to position 2 and click I again. C stays C. The place and the fingers change. Play the grip the tool draws, not the one from a poster. Then click V, which is G, in the same two positions.
Minor chords have their own variants. “Familiar shapes” does not mean “easy”. Today the job is orientation from the root, not fluency in five grips.
Panie Janie in two regions
In Panie Janie C and G stay. Play a verse in the more comfortable region, then in the other. If the full grip hurts, play what the Translator shows on the thinner strings.
Point to the C root, play the Translator grip
On the screen: Key C, Note names, Position / shape 1, chord I. Then position 2. The grip as the tool draws it.
Measure: C stays C after the position change. Full C and G barres are not today’s task.
Two chords, two regions
On the chord sheet C and G stay. Only the place where you form the same three chord tones changes.