The Trouble with the CAGED System

Troy Stetina explains the problems in the standard presentation of the CAGED system. Includes explanation of the system along with the process of creating the 5 barre major barre chord shapes, then how all this fits into a bigger perspective and ramifications. 0:00 Intro 0:19 My Problems with CAGED 1:52 The E-A-D; G-C Voicing "System" 5:00 The E-D-C-A-G Barre Chord "System" 7:23 How Barre Chords Connect 8:26 What Does that Mean? 9:15 Using different voicings 10:04 Impact on Lead 10:52 The minor shapes and beyond 11:31 Connecting to Minor Pentatonic 12:08 The value of mismatching 3rds 12:46 What blues tones really are 13:36 Outro