CAGED System – Unlock the Guitar

Is the CAGED System Worth Learning?

May 31, 2026

The short answer is: it depends on what you do with it. The longer answer is what this article is…

January 22, 2020

A lot of players get to the point where they’ve learned their scale patterns, be they CAGED, 3NPS patterns, my…

November 15, 2016

I’m not a huge fan of the CAGED System, but I am grateful to its existence because it forced me…

August 31, 2016

For the most part I taught myself to play guitar. I spent a year at Music College and had a…

May 8, 2016

It all started back in Music College in the early 2000s, at the ACM in Guildford (UK) to be precise,…

February 29, 2016

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know I’m not a huge fan of the CAGED System. Its…

August 7, 2015

Traditional methods of learning scales such as the (crappy) CAGED System and the 3NPS System don’t really lead to melodic…

November 17, 2014

If you’ve ever studied (or been forced to study) the CAGED system, you eventually reach a point where you begin…